Projects
- ORDB.org - The Open Relay DataBase
- mailidx - a mailindexer written in perl with php frontend
- netikette.dk - danish only
- drift.droso.net - danish only
After I no longer could get any grant for further studies on my fruitflies, I found a job as a systam administrator and system developer of database- and web-solutions provider (PIL.dk), situated in beautiful downtown Århus. Read the lastest news from PIL.dk and some of the projects I have worked on (danish only; English info about PIL.dk here).
Documents
For those programs that doesn't just install by typing "make install", I try and keep track of the things I have to do to make them work and publish them at http://fnidder.dk/HOWTO/. Not much there yet, but I'll keep it comming.
My systems
This pages are served from koala, a VServer running
FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE
hosted by PIL.dk.
At home, I am using grizzly, an Intel Celeron processor at 1.3 Ghz with 128 Mb RAM
also running FreeBSD, but
is continuesly upgraded to the newest version, currently running 5.0-RC.
We recently got our own pipe to the internet at home
through our gateway which is called panda, an Intel Celeron 1.3 Ghz with 128 Mb RAM
running FreeBSD -stable. panda also serves
foto.droso.net.
On the mobile side, I have raccoon, a Toshiba 7140 CT with a Intel Pentium-III and 192 Mb RAM also running FreeBSD and an Apple Macintosh PowerBook 190 with 16 Mb of memory and MacOS 8.1 installed.
These pages were written in using GNU Emacs, and uses AxKit which is a mod_perl module to Apache is used as web-server. This site is hosted by PIL.dk
FreeBSD and Linux
One of the downsides of Linux getting mainstream and so much software floating around, is that the system seems to get more and more messy. Because of this, and just to try something new, I started using FreeBSD and NetBSD. Both give a very stable system and a consistent interface, and a easy way of installing new software via the ports/packages-collection. Both also have improved security on some point over Linux and would therefore be my recommandation for a server installation. Some of my spare time goes to updating and maintaining, mostly Perl-modules in the FreeBSD ports system. See Port Survey for all my ports.
