BOMRadar

BOMRadar is designed to let you look at the radar map for a particular area to see if there is incoming rain. The application animates the last 4 images from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology and displays them in a loop. This was my first attempt at iPhone application programming so I hope you like it.

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iPhone Apps

Having known C for a while, I decided to try my hand at objective C. The iPhone was a good excuse to learn, and what better teacher than a guy in a cowboy hat. I purchased the Aaron Hillegass Cocoa Programming For Mac OS X (3rd edition) after it was recommended by some friends. Having no objective C experience before that, I worked my way thru the book in about 2 weeks. Once completed I felt confident enough to start writing my own programs. Taking what I learnt from the book I applied it to iPhone programming, and the result is what you see on this page.

Creating a VPN using ssh and ppp on FreeBSD

Fri, 11/08/2002 - 19:47 — simon

FreeBSD: Creating a VPN using ssh and ppp

Welcome to the 21st century, the time of fast computers, fan cooled graphics cards,
point and click packet sniffers, and "I didn't know what that program did, i just ran it"
script kiddies. The problem with the internet today is that it isn't the nice place it
once was. You have no idea where your packets are going and who could be reading them.
Wouldn't it be nice if we could encrypt all of our traffic from our home network to

Configure PPPoE on FreeBSD

Fri, 11/08/2002 - 19:44 — simon

FreeBSD: How to set up PPPoE

Now that broadband is widely available, wouldn't it be nice to have all your machines
at home connected to it. (Note: Some providers disallow LANs as part of their AUP). With
this article we'll go thru the configuration required to configure up a PPPoE interface
in FreeBSD, enable Network Address Translation, and setup basic firewall rules to protect
our network.

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