I seem to have “fixed” the entropy-drain problem I had after I upgraded qbert to FC5. It took a little time (and some activity, good old find / -type f | wc -l helped get the numbers up) and a nifty little hack from Folkert Van Heusden in “audio-entropyd” (now part of my repository)
As qbert “the newer” is my old desktop machine, it still has a perfectly functional inbuilt soundcard. With the addition of the above software and a cheap microphone, ambient noise can now add to the entropy pool on the server (so when the neighbours play their techno/emo/Peter Allen at full volume it actually does some good)
On the other hand, my attempts to get Netflow data on the LAN were somewhat disasterous. I packaged up Damien Miller’s flowd (for aggregating and reporting flows) and softflowd (for capturing and pushing flows to the collector) as well as a touch-up for fprobe (however it’s in a bad way and I’ll likely not maintain it in future) I just don’t have the patience on a Sunday to dork around with ported software - I think I’ll just get a Cisco router to generate the flow and a decent collector to deal with and report it 
In other plans - I’m going to give the site a complete overhaul. I’ve been using the same techniques as I did a few years ago (see here for an example) and I need to get 2.0ified (just kidding, v1.0 is fine) or at least into 2006. Additionally, I’m not on a P233 with a 4G drive anymore 
I may also investigate a replacement blog (probably WordPress as I already have it installed) - no offence to Gavin, it’s good software, but something with some more features would be best. Naturally it would need to have a full RSS import module
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