Coredump

Found a new toy: BloGTK!. (Don’t mind the “!”; it’s all part of their style in there yonder site. “Downloads!” “Screenshots!” “FAQS!”)

It’s a weblog updating client based on Linux and done using Python and PyGTK. It allows the posting and updating of blog posts in Blogger, Movable Type, and pMachine, among others. And the best part is: it’s open source.

So no more need to open up a new browser tab (or window, if you’re a sadistic person still mucking with IE — hehe, can’t help it, sorry) to create and/or edit blogs. Just fire up BloGTK and off you go. By the way, for Blogger, the server URL is http://www.blogger.com/api/RPC2.

Having BloGTK is not a sure-fire way of getting chicks (or studs, whatever your inclination), but it’s one damn fine efficient, eherm, productivity tool. (For me, at least, since I use weblogs now to post updates on my workload.)

Okay, here I am on the roadmap so far:

1. Added DNS A record for jabber.philrice.gov.ph.
2. Set eth0 to 203.xxx.xxx.xxx/28 at the DMZ.
3. Set eth1 to 192.xxx.xxx.xxx/23 at the LAN side.
4. Set eth1:1 to 192.xxx.xxx.xxx/23 at LAN subnet 1.
5. Set eth1:1 to 192.xxx.xxx.xxx/23 at LAN subnet 2.

After I’m through updating jabber, I’ll be doing the following:

1. Configure squid.
2. Configure Squid LDAP authentication.
3. Try Active Directory LDAP schema replication. How will I do this?
   I don’t know just yet. Still rummaging through the docs.

The NIC, eth0, was the culprit. I kept getting intermittent network connection failures on that interface, and I thought it was due to misconfigured drivers.

I even reconfigured the NICs, and had them take on DHCP addresses from the DHCP server. That was when eth0 started barfing.

So now I placed eth1 on the DMZ, and got it to connect to the other public servers and to the internet. It’s currently downloading headers through yum.

Hopefully, I can get *at least* LDAP running on it by the end of the day. If I can ssh to it tonight, maybe I’ll try installing Jabber on it, too.

That’s the easy part. I have yet to figure out how to replicate Active Directory for LDAP authentication of network services.

Blogger has a nifty feature: Mail-to-Blogger. I’m trying it right now, sending a blog post through email.

The feature has been around for a while, but I really haven’t explored Blogger to the fullest extent (who has, anyway?). It would really be cool if it has a voice-to-blog interface as well. (Hmmm… I read somewhere that’s already available. What will they think of next?)

Blogger has a nifty feature: email blogger. I’m trying it right now, sending a blog post through email.

Oh, the feature has been around for a while, but I really haven’t explored Blogger to the fullest extent (who has, anyway?). It would really be cool if it has a voice-to-blog interface as well. (Hmmm… I read somewhere that’s already available. What will they think of next?)