26-Jan-2006

Quiet times
Too quiet, perhaps? Just the ordinary stuff with bad mail - I think I've seen most of them before, so there is no reason to publish.
System updates to come
On some places, I read about troubles with SWS 2.1 and MOD_PHP 1.3, but others seem to have no issues at all. I _could_ do an update, after having backed up the current system disk, so a simple reboot (though from another disk) would return to it's original state. Although I prefer to install it freshly using the new system disk. We'll see how far we can get this weekend.
VPN connection to the office
In the past I have tried to create a VPN connection to the company office but for some reason that never succeeded. The main problem might have been the included ZoneAlarm firewall, that didn't work well with Charon at the time; The laptop (Athene) didn't like it at all: it crashed severely when the VPN software was started when using the wireless connectivity, and Venus (at the time) could not properly connect - the connetion was set up but for some obscure reason, connecting to storage on the office network always failed and caused the connection to be dropped. So I abandoned the idea.

A few months ago the office moved to another location, and the network was changed, so I decided to give it another try. Tonight I tried on Aphrodite, but since Cerberos is the external firewall, ZoneAlarm was not installed, just the VPN software would do. After reboot it all went well, just creating the tunnel took some time but after that, all connections could be made.
So next will be Athene - see if that works as well, but I have a different brand of hardware for wireless network, with different drivers, and the VPN software may be working well with these.
SOAP
I don't mean the protocol
The project for which the research has been done may be postponed, or cancelled. The way it's done, is soap: I think we'd do; no we don't; yes, we do, he wants it;'it's said we do; or don't we?; we might do...You know what is meant...