Home - Narc.ro
Hi, and welcome to narc.ro!
What is this place?
This is the personal home page (er, should that be home site?) of Octav Săndulescu, also known as "narc" or "narc0tiq" (yes, that's "narcotic" with shitty spelling. Don't ask). The URL obviously follows from that.
Who?
You should probably read the About page on the blog. Basically, programmer, geeky guy, hosting his own domain on his own (really cheap) hardware.
So what's interesting in this place?
Well, there's a bunch of things that are interesting to me. There's:
- My WordPress blog called "Ramblings of Narc".
- A MediaWiki I keep in expectation that it will eventually be useful for something.
- A bunch of manuals and HOWTOs I keep for documentation value,
including copies of:
- the Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide
- a Ncurses Programming HOWTO
- the Linux From Scratch book, version 6.2 (which I used) to build a bunch of Linuxen I still use daily.
- the Beyond Linux From Scratch matching the LFS book above
- an old copy of the PHP manual
- and even Subversion documentation.
- And, finally, some projects I've had fun with,
most of them unfinished, including:
- a very silly, but nevertheless interesting tool that shows you who you are.
- The first version of what became the series of CMBlogs, currently up to the third rewrite. Naturally, unfinished, and waiting for my copious free time.
- A very incomplete Bookmark Keeper (I'm including it because it looks pretty).
- Still on looking pretty, there's also Gazelle, which was going to be a content management system (if you wanna call it that).
- Then there's MicroIMG, a more complete version of which manages img.narc.ro.
- Once upon a time, there was also What's My Secret, a completely online version of PostSecret that proved to be completely useless to me. Plus it's not as pretty, of course.
- The newest projects are all based on NeoFW, which is starting to be documented on the wiki.
- Finally, there's the uptimes of all the interesting systems in the narc.ro LAN (warning: this page probably WILL load slowly).
- Hey, I've got some Greasemonkey scripts, too, now!
Are all your projects unfinished?
Well, yeah, but that was kind of the point from the start. You see, their only reason for existing in the first place was for me to learn how to do some difficult thing or another.
Once I learned that, there were more interesting new projects to take up my time instead (or, more recently, there's work), so they got less priority (and from there, it was easy for them to drop off my radar altogether).
Simply put, their point was never to get finished, and so they aren't.
NeoFW is a bit of an exception to that -- being a framework, and seeing that I keep building on it, any advance on any project tends to bring new things into it. This very page is served by NeoFW under the hood.