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La Fonera: Autoupdate to 0.7.1.5

"There is something suspicious" 

This is, what I read in the logs, when I recently checked the logs of my fonera. It told me, that there was some answer from the "fon-home-script", thinclient.sh.  

Closer investigations gave the reason for this: fon updated the la-fonera software another time. This time, the hotfix and the changes are both small. The Changelog gave me the first hints what to look for:

Bugs:

[DNS change] DNS queries are properly managed now when the WAN IP address of La Fonera changes.

As I won't upgrade unseen changes, I analyzed the changes, as "DNS-update" sounds a like that could include a fix for that chilli "exploit", using dns as a helper.

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Network Attached Storage

Last week, at a local groceries discounter, they has an NAS on sale, but were already out of stock at the time I was there.

To be more precise, it was actually an NDAS (<--warning: marketing speech. Read their FAQs for a bigger picture.), so afterall I am not mad that I was too late.

As I was not familiar with N(D)AS, I did some research, and found, that NDAS has some properties which I don't think they are appropiate for a NAS. Others would call this "just cost-optimized".

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Back from vacation!

The bad thing on vacations is, that time flys by and that they eventually end. Unfortunatly, this trip was not an exception to that rule.

Okay, 3 ½ weeks are are long time for a vacation, but Canada is such a vast and great land.

My plans are, that I will blog a little about my vacation, spiced with some pictures, but now I really should focus on my master thesis...

Blogging pause

The next few weeks, I gonna have no time for my blogging project, as I will not be around any computer. However, instead, I will enjoy lots of nature, beatiful landscape, mountains, canyons, and maybe some really wild animals. And that all  in companion with a very special person. She's the One: The girl I married two weeks ago.

So please appologize, but we'll gonna enjoy our honeymoon!  

Status of the AVR-GCC toolchain in debian

In this article, I described how to update the avr-gcc for debian to support some extra devices.

Now, the debian archives has been updated and now the original debian files have most of the patches applied, and also updated to more recent upstream versions. 

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YAML 3.0 and YAML Builder

For those interested in the YAML Layout Template, there a some news on the offical yaml homepage:

First, some days after I published this, YAML3 was released, and on the seconds news is even more interesting, if you are planning to learn "YAML". The YAML Builder.

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YAML Template Sets.

Some weeks ago, I prepared a template set for lifetype, using the YAML framework.  Now, it is time to bundle my work and release it to the public..

The YAML framework has been created that a web designed has not to care about browser bugs and also to use the power of CSS to make a flexible design. Or, as in the words of yaml's author:

Bulletproof & Flexible Layouts Made Simple

"Yet Another Multicolumn Layout" (YAML) is an (X)HTML/CSS framework for creating modern and flexible floated layouts. The structure is extremely versatile in its programming and absolutely accessible for end users.

Template for Lifetype

To get started, here is the download link on my server: http://frost.de/files/yaml_lifetype.zip

I prepared some examples using the examples in the yaml packages.

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