The new website for our robotic soccer team is now online. The main site is based on Joomla (1.5.0-rc3 so far; yes, you won’t believe it, we’re really using a release candidate of Joomla for a productive site!); the blog is still based on WordPress and will stick with it.
There are still enough layout issues and a missing login form. The new website now provides a more verbose information on our team and robotic soccer, though. Due to the lack of a localizataion plugin for Joomla 1.5, the main content is currently only available in German. The blog is only available in English.
Due to some missing parts of System.Net.NetworkInformation, I’ve written a (very basic and libc-based) wrapper to collect network interface address information from the system. It calls getifaddrs, walks through the ifaddrs structure and creates a managed counterpart.
NetworkInterfaceAddress.cs
Even though it may be implemented way too complicated or confusing, it might be useful for someone out there.
Update 2009-01-01: Well… first, the download didn’t work anymore. Second, there was a bug in the code :) Both shortcomings are fixed now :)
As network stack changes were introduces in linux kernel 2.6.21/2.6.22, the vmware modules currenlty refuse to compile. Based on some forum discussions, I’ve creates a small patch so that the modules compile again.
You can download the patch or the vmnet.tar archive here:
vmware-workstation-6.0_linux-kernel-2.6.22.patch
vmnet.tar
Simply apply it to the contents of vmnet.tar and reconfigure your vmware. I’ve tested it on an AMD64 platform, but not on a IA32 yet!
Update: Fixed a bug in the patch and added a link to vmnet.tar.
After upgrading to Ubuntu Feisty, pam-based password authentication for Apache (2.2) didn’t work anymore. In the logs I found only some very useless entries like
[Wed Apr 25 20:36:20 2007] [error] Internal error: pcfg_openfile()
called with NULL filename
[Wed Apr 25 20:36:20 2007] [error] [client xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] (9)
Bad file descriptor: Could not open password file: (null)
After searching the web for a while I finally found a solution which works perfectly for me: Just disable all the other authentication modules using the following directive:
AuthBasicAuthoritative off
