I added an article about installing bitlbee on Fedora Core 2.

• http://involution.com/fc2_bitlbee.php

There’s a couple of Fedora Core 2 shots on my Screen Shots page. Enjoy.

YAAAAAAAAAAAY! Bitlbee 0.90. Here’s my Redhat 9.0 RPM:

• http://www.uberh4×0r.org/~hoyhoy/rpms/redhat9/bitlbee-0.90-hoyhoy1.i386.rpm

OK, I found a really cool app called Snif that sets up apache’s mod autoindex to maximize readability by simply placing a simple index.php file in the root directory that you want to index. My Snif music repository is here:

• http://music.hoyhoy.org/music

I _finally_ got SBC to fix the reverse delegation for my static dsl ip addresses. If you wasted perfectly good coppers on static ips, feel free to call the special dns support number at 1-800-833-2120, and select options 1,2,1. Also, make sure you setup the reverse zone in your domain zone file, not the in-addr.arpa stuff. Essentially, setup the PTR entries for in-addr.yourdomain.dom. Pretty obvious, really, which is why it took me three days to sort out.

There’s a new gallery of pictures from last night’s gig at The Vibe here:

• http://www.gravitytest.com/gallery/20040523_thevibe

Thanks to Zhenya for taking these pictures.

I also managed to compile the Gnome NetStatus Applet for FC2. You can download it here:

• http://uberh4×0r.org/~hoyhoy/rpms/fc2/gnome-netstatus-2.6.1-1.i386.rpm

I managed to compile the Netspeed Applet for FC2. You can download it here:

• http://uberh4×0r.org/~hoyhoy/rpms/fc2/netspeed_applet-0.9.2-1.i386.rpm

I didn’t really know I needed this, but t1iming managed to come up with it anyway. It’s an irssi plug-in that allows intelligent command completion whilst using irssi. You can download it here:

• http://fokdat.nl/~tijmen/bitlbee_tab_completion.pl

Obtaining the Fedore Core 2 DVD ISO was a bit challenging. Even the latest wget with an alleged Gentoo patch which purports to fix the problem doesn’t seem to support downloading a 4.070 GB file to an ext3 partition. I have managed to get use a Bit Torrent, but the speed never seems to top 100KBps, and it absolutely pegs my upstream bandwidth when I’m downloading. Fortunately, ncftpget happily supports arbitrarily large files. I was able to successfully download the new DVD iso at the command-line with this:

ncftpget -v ftp://redhat.secsup.org/pub/linux/redhat/fedora/core/2/i386/iso/FC2-i386-DVD.iso

Amazingly, I downloaded the file over a period of 3 hours at 550 KBps over a DSL connection.