What happened?

At the risk of sounding apologetic, I’m sorry I haven’t updated more often…

I started off quite well earlier in the year. Almost a post a day.
Sadly, I started to run out of ideas, and then work took hold.

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The door appears to be locked

Observations from my desk, near the door.

I often wonder what goes through some of these people’s minds as they slowly figure out that, the door is infact, locked.

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Cisco need to rethink their support

I recently had the mispleasure of trying to use the cisco.com website.

I wasn’t even trying to do anything with a Cisco router, or switch, or any Cisco hardware at all. I was trying to upgrade the software on my Linksys SPA942.

But its a Linksys device you say? Well yes, but Cisco bought Linksys in 2003. Obviously, they saw a gap in their product offerings (specifically, the home and small office market), and decided to fill it, by buying a company that was already filling the gap. (As is the Cisco way…)

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What a summer

Summer 2009 in Ireland has been great.

My parents were here for a while, we got to do a bit of touring/visiting. Got us out of the house!

Sunshine, is always a good thing. Its even better when its warmer in Ireland than it is in South Africa. I really needed some extra sunlight. It has an incredible affect on my mood. I don’t think I’d have been able to handle all the recent work stress if it wasn’t for the sunshine.

And thats why I haven’t posted in a while… So much work :/
But, it keeps me busy and keeps my brain active

Farewell Bank of Ireland

We’ll be going to shut down Jeanine’s Bank of Ireland account soon. For way too many reasons to name.

But I’ll share a few recent snippets of our recent dealings with them:

“Why would you want to move your account to another branch, you can do everything from any branch.”
“Oh, you want to do (Insert any common banking activity here), you have to do that at the branch your account is held at”

“Sure, this cheque is a Bank of Ireland cheque, it’ll clear in a few hours” – Bank of Irelands definition of “few hours” means anything from 3 hours, to 72 hours.

When I want to do banking, I go to a bank. If I wanted lies, I’d go find a politician.

Keyboard Pants

Yes.

Keyboard pants.

I know… what a brilliant idea. I’m annoyed that I didn’t think of this myself.

I have a roll-up keyboard, and its new destiny is to become part of some form of clothing…

Julius gets a new home

So after the Julius/Nandos Farce, the puppet has found a new home.

No, the plastic puppet, that was used in the Nandos advert.

Monster VPN Project – Installing OpenVPN

The next part of this project, is to install OpenVPN. Again, in Debian, this is pretty simple. So make sure you’re logged in as root, and run the following:

  apt-get install openvpn

See, I said it was easy. Now there’s a little more of a complex part, where we setup the CA and utilities needed for generating Certificates for the Server and all the Clients.

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South Africa goes to Vote

Its voting day in South Africa, so hopefully all of the 23m registered voters will be out enjoying the public holiday in the open air.

And then they’ll all be heading to Wimpy for their free coffee

And those of you with a sense of humour, will read Hayibo’s Election News, and giggle to yourselves at the new Nandos advert. (Those without a sense of humour will be offended, and try to sue Nandos. Or take Militant action, whatever floats your gravy boat)

RTE Player open to the Public

RTE have opened their online catch-up service to the public today.

They call it the RTE Player.

I’ve been playing around with this for a few days now. (Thanks RTE for giving me a beta account!)

Its very impressive actually. Quality is great, and I haven’t found a single bug yet. It just works.

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