Fred.Cambridge.MA.US

Contact information

  162 Pleasant St.
  Cambridge, Mass. 02139
  (617) 661-1979

  pjd@fred.cambridge.ma.us
  elg@bronze.lcs.mit.edu

Here's an aerial photo of our neighborhood, with our house right in the middle, courtesy of the MIT map server at ortho.mit.edu.

Pictures of the kids

This picture is from 2000 or so...

Peter's pages

Plans for a kid's loft bed

picture coming soon...

I built a couple of simple, sturdy loft beds for our kids' rooms, and at the suggestion of some of our friends wrote up the plans so that someone else might be able to duplicate it. It's a scan of a pencil-and-paper document, since it's a pain drawing all the figures online. Loft bed plans

Running a mailserver on a NAT-ed cable modem box

I had some trouble moving my email setup over to RedHat 8.0, so for anyone else making the stupid mistakes that I was making, look here for some tips.

Polaroid DC320 page

It's a tiny piece-of-junk camera, but I've got a FunFlash DC320, and I'm trying to reverse-engineer it along with a number of other people on the gphoto-devel list. I've got a program that will read pictures from the camera as well as some links and other information here.

RTelnet for Linux

Having acquired a few old terminal servers to use for extra serial ports in the lab, I realized I needed a copy of rtelnet to make them really useful. Here's a hacked up copy that works on Linux:

• rtelnet.c
• rtelnet.8

Your milage may vary. In addition, the legal status of the code is probably iffy at best, although I doubt Xylogics (->Bay->Nortel) cares anymore. Oh, and I've hacked it (grossly) to use Xyplex port numbering, so beware...

Linux 2.4 skeleton driver

There are a number of skeleton drivers out there for kernel 2.2 and previous, but here's one for kernel 2.4 with devfs support, using the new module/driver init mechanisms and all that:

• skelchar.c

I haven't tested it much - in particular, I haven't tried compiling it into the kernel (instead of loading as a module) or using it on a non-devfs system. Let me know if you do...

Old archived messages

Here are some old archived messages from comp.os.research, from back in 1992, from a rather civilized flame war started by Andrew Tannenbaum under the subject "Have we learned anything in the last 20 years?". Still pertinent today, and a quick search doesn't show them on the net anywhere else. You can download the archive here, if you want a copy.

Sites of Excellence

Barney Greinke: nuke tourist - a vacation of missile silo tours and whatnot, with extensive interaction with federal agents.

The Missile Silo Tour page - this is the original page with photos of a decommissioned and decrepit silo. (It's been updated a bit, and doesn't say "Looks best in Netscape Navigator 2.0" anymore...)

Fleet Bank Sucks

I had some links to various "Fleet sucks" pages here, but they've all expired. So the bank which finally succeeded in making people feel nostalgic for BayBank's customer service may have finally won in the end...

Virtual Interface Architecture stuff

In addition, we put together a kernel VIPL library for Giganet's adapter, and a VIA-based network block device for Linux 2.2, which you can find here. It seems to perform pretty well, which isn't half bad for a couple of weeks work.

Random other stuff:

• Bike contacts - random assortment of contacts, resources, etc. mostly related to cycling activism and laws.
• NT Tidbids - random NT development resources I've come across in my work.
• Linux development tidbits - I've been working on a linux driver for Giganet's product, and these are various links and tips I've found.

The Rogue's Gallery

• Incipient, maker of storage virtualization software.
• Chinook Communications (RIP 3/15/02)
• InfoLibria, out-of-business maker of transparent web caches,
• GigaNet, maker of an entertaining high-speed cluster interconnect, purchased by Emulex 3/1/00.
• Midnight Networks, makers of network test suites, purchased by Teradyne, and then eventually absorbed into their Hammer Technologies unit, spun off into Empirix. Anything that I worked on is part of assets eventually sold to Ixia - in particular, the ANVL test suite.
• Motorola Codex, former kings of the leased line modem market, and
• Apple Computer, who are finally back in the business of making cool computers again.

If you're interested, you can see my resume here, although I'm not currently looking for a job.

Elizabeth's pages

Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies - mad cow disease, kuru, CJD, and all their variants.

Christopher's Yu-Gi-Oh Pages - of interest to 8-year-old boys everywhere. His latest decks and strategies, I think.