I’m still trying to get through this first issues which Justin was nice enough to give me.

It’s one of the few magazines I feel compelled to read from start to finish. Okay.. well I skipped the “Monorail in your back yard” section. But, being from the Seattle area, Monorails are a sore subject with me.

Well, Saturday night we finally got some pretty good proof for my theory that cilantro *spits* gives me terrible migrians. And apparently the fresher the cilantro the worse the migraine. Fortunately for me in the last couple years the pain has started to get more mild. (I’ve probably burned out enough brain cells with the mini-strokes that are the migraines).

I get the aural precursors with my migraines. I was about to dive into a detailed description when I realize that the wikipedia link gives a pretty good description of what happens. Reference that.

So, I was treated to wave after wave of aural assults until I finally gave up hope of recovering enough to sneak off and play FarCry - my current time waster - and I climed into the shower and stood there until it went cold. Then I crawled into bed and mercifully collapsed. If I were smart I would’ve chucked up dinner and it would’ve stopped sooner, then I could’ve just passed out. But I took some tums to stop my stomach from lurching and bubbling, thus prolonging the whole circus.

The auras give me a warning of things to come so as soon as I start to lose my site I usually run (literally) for the recipe that seems to help best in combating the inevitable pain:

Excedrin Migraine - If you look in the ingredients this is a cocktail of 2 pain relievers, something for swelling, and a big dose of caffine.

Coffee - Just start drinking. I should probably throw Orange juice into the mix to help bust the caffine.

Then an try and fall asleep before it comes. My wife also rubs Tiger Balm into my temples from time to time. But to be honest I don’t know if it’s the tiger balm that makes me feel better or just getting a temple massage from a beautiful woman. =)

I still have a small blind spot I’ve been trying to look around all day and it’s driving me nuts.

So, no more cilantro for me. Which sucks because I love salsa and in the last 5 years or so the only salsa you can seem to get without cilantro is the Mango Pineapple kind. Yeah, thanks to what ever So-Cal trend-master decided that cilantro was the hot new thing that needed to be in everything. Probably the same guy who is responsible the Chipotle fad. Or Lime - (insert cola product here).

This post has all the flow of a pillow case full of bricks. Oh well.. migraines screw with my thinking.

I really think that Microsoft wants me to ditch XP. I know linux certainly does. I’m speaking of my sudden rash of svchost.exe errors at boot and shutdown on my two instances of XP. And the problem with XP not refreshing the CD drive view when I change CDs is annoying - I had to reboot XP for each of the 6 FryCry CDs I was trying to install. (And many more issues)

I looked on-line for the registry hacks that took care of the problem last time and the ones I found didn’t help.

Linux wants to help pry my last couple fingers off of XP. It’s doing this by providing things like Cedega, to cover my gaming needs. And Mono and Monodevelop, to cover my development needs - not to mention the great people in the Seattle Mono User’s Group (SMUG?) =) who are motivating and fun to hang out with.

For some reason I still think I need VStudio for my purely Win/.Net development - Could it be that I’m still hung up on code folding? VStudio’s left me needy and addicted to it’s crutches. If only someone *COUGH*berman*COUGH* could some how get that functionality into monodevelop.

I suppose I could just run a VMachine of XP or Win2k. That way when ever windows vomited all over itself I could just restore the image and keep going.

I just think it says a lot that I got an AMD64 for my main XP box around the same time I got Ubuntu installed on my 800mhz linux box and I’ve been using my linux box almost exclusively and not touched my smokin’ new AMD64. Wow, that sucks.

What’ve you done for me lately, XP?

Prepare to suck wind, XP. Prepare to suck wind.

I’ll go ahead and put the steps / scripts here I had to take to get this to work. in case someone else needs a hint.

Get a linksys WRT54G

Flash the firmware with either Sveasoft or OpenWRT (I used sveasoft)

enable ssh

log in and turn on IPv6 and radvd:

nvram set ipv6_enable=1

nvram set radvd_enable=1

nvram commit

Then cut and paste this:

nvram set rc_startup=”\
ip tunnel add v6tf mode sit remote <put remote ipv4 address here - no brackets> ttl 255
ip link set v6tf up
ip addr add <put assigned ipv6 address here - no brackets> dev v6tf
ip route add ::/0 dev v6tf metric 1
ip addr add <put assigned ipv6 prefix here - no brackets> dev br0
iptables -I INPUT -p icmp –icmp-type 8 -j ACCEPT
iptables -I INPUT -p icmp –icmp-type 128 -j ACCEPT
”
and:

nvram set radvd_conf=”\
interface br0{
AdvSendAdvert on;
AdvHomeAgentFlag off;
prefix <put assigned ipv6 prefix here - no brackets>
{
AdvOnLink on;
AdvAutonomous on;
AdvRouterAddr off;
};
};
”

then:

nvram commit

Reboot the router and you should be good to go.

IPv6 connections aren’t NAT’d through your router so make sure you’re secure when you get things up and running. It look like XP SP2’s firewall will cover IPv6 and shorewall for linux appears to handle it as well.

To get IPv6 running in XP (and perhaps 2k3) run: ipv6 install

Anymore questions, I guess you could contact me. But hell… that right there is all I know on the matter.

Finally got IPv6 setup through the WRT54g router. All seems to be going well. I can resolve and connect to different IPv6 only sites. I even get the dancing turtle.

Now I’m setting up bind and nessus on my server. More fun, to be sure.

So, did my blog help me focus and actually complete a project? Hrmm I think it probably more just help from Eric and Chris. =)

Next up, company web site.

I’ve been listening to C89.5 more and more lately (rather than just on the drive in to work) and I notice that you’ll hear the same block of songs just about every hour. ACK!

When I worked at KGRG (Green River Community College) we had a program that would automatically generate play lists for us. The station programmers (radio, not computer) would set a level for a given song from “High Rotation” (hot new stuff) to “Oldies” and the machine would churn through the library and put together a play list.

Got me thinking that C89.5 needed something like this. And if they do have something like this… they need to need to drop the number of high rotation songs they get in an hour. Or more likely… increase their library so you don’t keep hitting the same six songs every hour.

I know, what with all the iPod’s and Webcasting out there that folks have come up with their own play list managers and smart agents to build out play lists for them. But perhaps they could get something like that for c89.5. Set it up so requests are logged and help bump up popular songs in rotation. *shrug*

I’m probably obsolutely wrong about what goes on there, having never been there. And I’m sure Eric is going to message me shortly after this post to fill me in. =) But… these are the things I think about on my long commute. (or as George Carlin says, “These are the things I think about when I’m at home alone and the lights go out.”) =)

Eric sent me a link to realmforge in reference to my post about the realtime codeable environment. While it does look interesting, I was thinking of something a little more integrated.

One of the screenshots looks like basically you’re “playing the game” through an editor. I’m thinking more of having the editor just be another item in there. You select an item to edit/create and a free floating 3d editor pops up and you can code in it and interact with it. Or perhaps you’ve got a transparent menu style of editor *waves hand dismissively* nothing is spec’d and it’s all in my head - along with a lot of other strange stuff, to be sure. =)

Maybe this’ll be like the great american novel. I’ll have to wait till I’m near retirement to churn it out.

It’s hard to find the time now, with the 2 hour commute each way. Love wants to see a little more of me =) I work from home one day a week to try and help out.. especially with the new one coming.

Contracting might be nice… if it was stable.. and had benefits. Uh-huh… I guess I’ll keep spinning my wheels with the personal business thing until I get some traction.

Didn’t get much work done on it today. Last night I got a script from Eric and looked at little more at what was going on.

I try and ping6 and I get a 100% loss. But tunnelbroker shows up and down activity on the website. I can ping other IPv6 machines on my side of the router and it’s fine. I’m thinking the hang up is in the router and it’s settings.

So the next step is to flash the firmware and try Eric’s script fresh. We’ll see how it goes.

I was getting the wireless drops last night and I changed the settings I mentioned earlier to no effect. But I spent all day working from home via vpn and Remote Desktop and I didn’t have any issues. *shrug*

I find myself loitering by the Game Developing section in the book stores. But I don’t think I have the time or the patience to do game dev work (nor the skills?). Though I envision less of a game and more of just a fully code-able 3d environment.

I was in a mud once that allowed you to define objects and code them in the game. That was pretty cool. I toyed with bots and such.. and someone actually brought the server down when they fired off one of my replicating bots. But anywho… I like the idea of a full on 3d version… looking like WoW or what ever modern MMOG you can think of, but with the ability to click on something and then crack it open… have a nice floating 3d window come up and you can modify the code and define the object.

I have dreams about this often… where I’m walking by an object and I just peal it open and modify it’s code. I was zoning out on my 2 hour commute the other day and I was staring at a trencher backhoe hanging off the back of this truck… I suddenly thought about opening it up and adjusting the variables to try and squeeze a little more power out of it.

Weird… I know…

But I think I like the idea of an online place created by users. I know they have places sort of like it… but… I dunno.. I’m thinking of something different. C# of course. =)

But think of all the slacker teens out there (my cousin) who’d suddenly found they’d learned C# and development practice in general, in an attempt to blow their friend away online.

Hrmmm

Well, I was going to say that my possible project would be a simple card game (I’ve got some rules that I’ve never seen turned into a computer version)… but I went off on a rant.

OpenGL Solitaire anyone? Of course I mean Tao

An engine for my dynamic world idea?

Well, I’ve got my tunnel… via tunnelbroker… and I’m having mixed results. On my Grond (the main linux box) I can’t seem to ping anything.. I can resolve ipv6 addresses, but it flakes.

I think installing Freenet6/tspc may have freaked it out a bit. I tried removing it (apt-get remove freenet6 tspc) but I notice the deamon still tries to start… so I wacked the conf file.

I think what i need is a good reboot.

I can monitor traffic from tunnelbroker’s site and I saw that towards the end of my 4am hack session last night I was getting in and out traffic and they succesfully pinged me (they ping the ipv6 network to determine wether or not the tunnel is in use else they drop it).

I think it was working on my XP laptop (looks surprised) as I could ping6 and traceroute6 back to it.

Oh well talk about quick immersion.

I still haven’t had a chance to check the improved range with the new firmware. And I haven’t used it long enough to see if it drops the wireless connectin like Brandon, and several folks on line (google it), have mentioned. But linksys makes indirect mention of setting “Beacon Interval” to 50 and “Fragmentation Threshold” to 2034. So if something does crop up.. I’ll try that first.