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Sunday 27th April - 12:30

The next developmental CVS version of TMip has now been released (version 0.11a). This has the major addition of an integrated DHCP server within the CN application, so now it really is all transparent! See here for details on the project, and you can download the software from SourceForge TMip CVS, see the CVS link on the project page. Or you can use the following to check it out directly (use a blank password): cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/tmip login cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/tmip co tmipcore

Wednesday 2nd April - 00:30

Over the past few months I've been working on a new project, called TMip. This aims to provide transparent mobile IP over both wireless and wired networks, with no need for any client software or alteration to IP stack. I have just released the first alpha version (0.1a). More details here!.

Wednesday 2nd April - 00:29

Martin Howells (VK2UMJ) has prepared some frequency allocation plug-ins for AMV1, covering VK and VK2. He has included both full/limited/novice and novice limited allocations. You can download these from his web site at http://www.qsl.net/vk2umj/amvplug.htm. Thanks Martin! Note:  I promised to release the source code for AMV1 ages ago, and it never happened. Other projects have taken over. But... I really should do it, so I will make an effort to get all the source code out for every application I wrote for AMV1. It might not be a pretty process... some of the code is 6 years old!

Wednesday 23rd October - 15:30

I have not had much of a chance to do any updates recently, but hopefully that will change soon! Time has been devoted to University and a new wireless LAN project. If you are interested, see the SOWN (Southampton Open Wireless Network) page for details.

Sunday 4th August - 18:00

I've updated the latest version of my third year project package, which now includes the simulation program. Documentation on that should follow shortly. Also, another paper has been posted up, which was presented at the ISSA2002 conference in July 2002.

Tuesday 2th July - 21:00

I have finally got round to writing a small utility to allow AMV1 users to change their frequency allocations and county callsign prefixes! Sorry it just took so long! :-) Also note that my IRC server is down currently, I'm kinda moving house so everything is in a bit of a mess!

Thursday 26th June - 19:00

I've made some changes to my project package, to fix the schema validation problems. It also uses a newer version of Xerces. The schemas are not complete yet, and also the regression testing scripts have broken (will fix shortly, after I move house ;-) Grab the latest version of the code here.

Sunday 16th June - 16:24

Exams have now all finished, which explains the delay in posting any updates recently! The final project report is now up, on the documentation page. I've also updated the latest version of the code. Details on the simulation project will be uploaded in about a month when that project has completed.

Saturday 27th April - 13:51

Back from Poland. Presentation slides are posted on the documentation page for my project.

Friday 19th April - 13:05

I've posted updated versions of the documentation for my project. Also, the latest version of the code is available, along with examples of processing. Slides will be up on Monday.

Wednesday 17th April - 22:30

By the end of next weekend I'll post up the revised documentation for my project, a few extra bits. Also, the latest code grab will be up (and I will remember to update it more now :) Slides are nearly ready for the Poland trip! Only a few days left... eeeek!

Saturday 6th April - 14:45

I've set up some IRC channels if anybody wants further information on my projects or anything else on this site. All these channels can be found on the server at slybase.homeip.net, usual port of 6667. I'm normally around most of the day/night (Computer Science hours :-)    #amv1: Anything to do with Amateur Radio Utility v1.    #apps: Generall application/source queries.    #xmlnetman: My 3rd year project, XML network management.    #random: For anything else! You may want XChat or MIRC.

Saturday 6th April - 12:50

Final 3rd year project report will be up soon, along with the final software package in early May (with many improvements). Will also be some manuals available too! Submitted abstract with my project supervisor in connection with my 3rd year project to ISSA 2002 security conference. I will be attending the BIS 2002 conference in Poland starting April 24th, to present this paper. Better get those bugs fixed then :-)

Sunday 17th March 2002 - 22:02

New version of the Desktop Manager, version 0.21 is now available. Various additions and updates, see web page for details. Download the app here.

Friday 15th March 2002 - 01:12

The final draft of the paper for my 3rd year project has now been submitted... Poland here I come! See my project pages or grab the latest copy here!

Friday 8th March 2002 - 01:16

I have updated the documentation on my third year project. Lots of additions since last update, and I will put the latest code up soon. The paper myself and my project supervisor wrote on the subject of my 3rd year project has been accepted, and I will be presenting it at the BIS 2002 conference this April <shudder/> in Poland (knew I should have listened in language lessons at school!) Got my exam results back for 1st semester of year 3... 79.2%. Only a few months till the next lot! :-) Very close to releasing the next version of desktop manager, with quite a lot of new bits added like transparency support etc... should be up soon!

Thursday 10th November 2005 - 23:00

Oh dear, what happened to the summer! Not much has changed on the project front, but maybe now it's getting colder I might get round to doing some more on SlyBot!

Monday 21st March - 23:50

Time for a new project! This time it's robotics! I've been working on my new SlyBot project since the beginning of this year, which aims to develop a series of experimental robots and a high-level, developer friendly software control system. The software control system will be powerful yet easy to configure and develop, so that robotics enthusiasts will be able to integrate complex behaviour into their robots without having to master a conventional programming language or embedded electronics. My hope is that anybody with a compatible controller could simply wire up their robot, plug in the software, and make it move with ease! The software itself will run on Windows or Linux, and hence programs can easily be debugged on a standard desktop machine before being placed on the robot itself. It is not designed to be embedded as such, but I aim to run it on a Linux PDA for my SlyBot series of robots. See my SlyBot project page for details!

Tuesday 04th January - 00:34

The XMLNetMan project I undertook as part of my degree course a few years ago is now actively being extended as part of the Verinec project at the University of Fribourg. The original project aimed to provide an abstracted language to describe network level services, such as firewalls, web servers etc. Simulation could then be performed to validate the correct behaviour of the entire system, before a translation/compilation process generated actual configuration files for each service. See here for details on my original project, and here for details on the new project.

Tuesday 14th December - 20:00

Wow, what happened to 2004! Time for an update I think; been a little busy recently with work & moving house etc. TMip news: TMip has been featured in the Linux Magazine (April 2004), see here for a PDF of the article. I'm also doing some research into TMip2; testing out some new theories etc. Watch this space!

Thursday 10th July 2003 - 19:16

I have now (finally) got round to releasing the source code for AMV1 for people to continue their own development. See here for download details.

Monday 16th June 2003 - 13:10

Version 0.14a of TMip has just been released. A few bug fixes and feature enhancements. Includes ability to send HUP/USR1/USR2 signals to control both the MLR and CNs. Details here and downloads here.

Saturday 7th June 2003 - 23:12

The next release of TMip is now available (version 0.13a). Again, loads of new features, such as ability to run multiple CN's per physical node, and the support for distributed address allocation pools. More details on the project page. I have also written a general introduction to the TMip concept. Also, another TMip developer (Nicholas Humfrey) has written a MLRP Perl interface to both the MLR and CNs. This means you can get fully dynamic views of your mobile network, such as the example here. You can download the newest versions of both projects from the SourceForge project page here. On other news, I've finished my degree! Yay!

Thursday 1st May - 23:20

The next release of TMip is now available (version 0.12a). This has lots of new features, details of which are on the project page. You can download the newest version from the SourceForge project page here.

Thursday 31st January 2002 - 16:42

Exams are finally finished! The source code for the Desktop Manager application should be up shortly, along with a new prototype of my Third year project. Also some more documentation for my project has been added, including progress report and a paper written by myself and my project supervisor. See the Documentation section of this page.

Sunday 6th January 2002 - 20:15

I've got a logo! Well, everybody needs an image... thanks to my Sis! :)

Monday 31st December 2001 - 15:21

New version of the Desktop Manager, v0.2, has been released. Added support for configurable key assignments, dragging windows between desktops, and fixed various bugs. See this page for more details and downloads.

Monday 17th December 2001 - 19:10

Added documentation on my third year project for University, based on network management using abstracted XML files. For more information and source downloads see this page.

Saturday 8th December 2001 - 20:30

I've added a new product the Desktop Manager to this site for free download. It allows you to have four virtual desktops within Windows, adding individual windows to each desktop and switching between them.

Tuesday 4th December 2001 - 00:50

Site up and running at last:- www.slyware.com is active! Please note that everything is as ever under construction, so most of the links will be dead until I get everything sorted. I have set up various emails and aliases. Use simon@slyware.com for personal, m1bwt@slyware.com for radio related, and webmaster.slyware.com for comments on this site. Please use support@slyware.com for general technical support.

Wednesday 6th February 2002 - 16:17

The source code for the Desktop Manager is now available for download. Grab it here!. I have also put up some Delphi source code components. See here for more details and downloads.

Tuesday 5th February 2002 - 12:20

The AMV1 online registration script is up now, see the AMV1 page for more details. Any problems with the script, please contact support@slyware.com