So eventually I got sick of all the comment spam I got recently. That's why I switched the comment system to DISQUS. While the switch was easy I did not take my time to migrate the existing comments.

Update: So this was a short foray into the world of DISQUS. I switched back to the pyblosxom internal comment system. While looking nice, I think it is overkill for this site.

Apparently another small change is needed to compile the module with 3.3 onwards. This patch is a little bit special since I do not have the infrastructure available to even compile time test it. So just drop me a line if it compiles or not.

As usual you can get it here.

Although a few of the my readers, yeah I had to start like this, already noticed it, I started taking pictures again. I sold my old gear, bought some new stuff, sent some of the new stuff back for calibration and took tons of pictures in the meantime. I really enjoy taking pictures now although I have a hard time getting the geek in me out of the picture. You know, is the exposure correct, what ASA/ISO should I use, damn the framing is off, is my camera frontfocusing, etc etc etc.

Just for all the people looking for newer rtsp kernel patches. If not otherwise noted the latest patch always works with kernel versions >= its own version. Right now 2.6.26 which is the latest works with kernels all the way up to the 2.6.32-rc series.

Quick update on the RTSP front. I put the source online on github in the hope that more people will work on it. There are one or two bugs open I cannot fix myself so help is appreciated. So if you know the netfilter code head over to github and help out.

Just a quick heads-up for everyone using the new tarball. Alexandre noted that the current version was not compiling at all with his setup. The problem occurs if NF_CONNTRACK support is compiled statically in the kernel. Instead of obj-m, obj-y is set and no module is compiled. I changed the Makefile and put up a new tarball.

Wow, I should blog more often. I just was told that you can no longer post comments on my site which steems from the fact that I am using the no_old_comments plugin which makes sure, that there are no posts to old comments. Since I am not writing new entries that often nowadays, you cannot post at all. Well I fixed this for now, so if you were not able to post, well try again.

As for the RTSP patch, the latest one still works with a recent kernel, I have it running with 2.6.28.2 that's why there is no release of a new tarball.

Hello everyone,

Starting with 2.6.26 the format of the patch I provide will differ. With the former patch you had to patch your kernel by hand and enable the module in the configuration. A few people remakred that this was a little bit difficult to handle.

From now on the patch is setup as an external module. Just extract the tarball, enter the directory and call:

• make
• make install

You need to have NF_CONNTRACK_NAT enabled in your kernel configuration though. For more information consult the README file. You can get the source here.

The name starts with rtsp-module.

NB: As always, this code works for me, if you find any bugs or have fixes please contact me.

BTW this code also works with 2.7.27 so do not look for a tarball.

I had a look at some old posts and noticed something very interesting. I often talked about the things I was doing right now and promised a more detailed explanation later on. Looking at "later" now shows me that this actually never happened.

Now the question my dear reader, what would be something interesting I should write about? NO that's not fishing for comments but it comes close. :) So please take your time, think and tell me what you are interested in.

So there is a patch for 2.6.26 now. As usual you can get it here. Some more changes to the API this time but it works for me.

NB: As always, this code works for me, if you find any bugs or have fixes please contact me.

If anyone is interested I also updated the POM repository for the RTSP patch. You can find it here as well.