Posted by Benjamin Close on November 14, 2008 under ClearChain | 
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It’s been a while now but I’ve finally got around to updating the clearchain website. The old mediawiki based instance was nice, friendly to edit but also required syntax to edit it. After a while arguing with the syntax it gets to the point where all you really want to do is use the website [..more..]
Posted by Benjamin Close on November 13, 2008 under Programming | 3 Comments to Read
Working with Mark’s dnl code, we came across an interesting issue. Mark had used the stl::set class for some of his code and whilst it compiled fine under Visual Studio, it failed to compile under gcc/g++. With the error: dnlCommon/Logger.cpp: In member function ‘void dnlCommon::Logger::setMask(std::ostream&, std::bitset<5ul>)’: dnlCommon/Logger.cpp:64: error: invalid initialization of reference of type ‘dnlCommon::Logger::LoggerPair&’ [..more..]
Posted by Benjamin Close on under Computers, FreeBSD | Be the First to Comment
FreeBSD VPN This document describes how to setup both the server side and client side for a PPTP connection with MPPE encryption that works for windows, MacOsX and other freebsd boxes. The basic process: – Install & configure pptpserver on the freebsd server – Configure ppp on the freebsd server – Setup the clients 1. [..more..]
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I was coding a little program a while back when I found a Quirk about the stl reverse_iterator. Use of the iterator is quite easy until you have to delete from one. I tried the normal way of: vector<sometype>::reverse_iterator myiterator… .. .. myvector.erase(myiterator). only to find the code didn’t compile. A little baffled I started [..more..]
Posted by Benjamin Close on under Other | 8 Comments to Read
Have you ever been working on code, gone off on a side tangent and then realized you don’t have a valid patch of the code you’ve been working on? So you run diff -du, cvs diff, git diff or some other diff and suddenly realize you have a mix of old changes and new changes. [..more..]
Posted by Benjamin Close on under FreeBSD, OpenSource | 6 Comments to Read
In order to setup a secure mail transport agent (MTA) that helps eliminate some spam and also allows roaming client support, some sort of authentication mechanisim must be added when setting up a MTA. In my case I’m using FreeBSD 4.9 with sendmail as my MTA. Setting Up Sendmail
Posted by Benjamin Close on under OpenSource, Projects | Read the First Comment
LDAP is a great protocol. It allows multiple clients to obtain data about virtually anything that you can think of. The LDAPAddressBook project is a project to determine a LDAP Schema that works in the following clients: Mozilla Thunderbird Windows Address Book OS X Address Book Squirrel Mail In fact any client that supports LDAP.
Posted by Benjamin Close on under Computers | Be the First to Comment
CAP Related rfc2445.txt – Internet Calendaring and Scheduling Core Object Specification (ICalendar) rfc2446.txt – iCalendar Transport-Independant Interoperability Protocol (iTIP) rfc2447.txt – iCalendar Message-Based Interoperability Protocol (iMIP) rfc2739.txt – Calendar Attributed for vCard and LDAP rfc3080.txt – The Blocks Extensible Exchange Protocol Core (BEEP) rfc3081.txt – Mapping the BEEP Core onto TCP rfc3283.txt – Guide to [..more..]
Posted by Benjamin Close on under Life | Read the First Comment
Carly and Ben met in December of 2000, a surprize date by their best friends Patrick and Anita. Over time they became friends, lovers and on the 10th of April 2004 Ben asked Carly to be his wife. Carly Agreed! So on the 23rd of April 2005 they became one. Carly is the love of [..more..]
