It’s been so busy latey, and I’ve just been drained after work. The VPN thing is finally under control though. Note to anybody who cares, CuberGuard sucks. We switched to NetScreen and they’re much more stable. I was able to configure one each for both Lance and James to take home this weekend, and it looks like they’re in good shape. Lance’s cable modem changed IP’s on him though, so his isn’t working right now.

I’ve been working on these VPN’s for so long my head is starting to spin. I’m making really good progress though. Well, good progress for never having used a SCO UNIX system before yesterday. Yes, that’s right, these CyberGuard systems use SCO. It sucks, but that’s what we’re using for now at any rate. But let this be a warning to you, if you’re in need of a VPN solution be warned that CyberGuard uses SCO.

I’m over here at Mike’s so I decided to make an entry. Last night we were working on his computer trying to install a WiFi card to make use of Sheri’s hotspot here in the neighborhood. Unfortunately along the way I wasn’t paying attention and we accidently wrote LILO to the root partition. Oops. So tonight we’re installing Sarge over Sheri’s hotspot shared through my iBook. See, that’s what I love about the iBook.

The world is abuzz because of Movable Type’s new pricing. I haven’t decided what I think yet. On the one hand, it’s still free for me so who cares, right? On the other hand it’s not free software (but I am writing this from my Mac…). On top of that I found the first and second thing I don’t like about MT. One of those is the pricing, the other is comment counts aren’t updated after they’re posted.

I’ve decided to go ahead and make the switch to Movable Type without an extended beta, and before finalizing the layout. As you can see, it’s a little bland. But I’m improving it. The absolute best thing about MT is that it’ts valid XHTML. I spent a little while customizing it today to improve the look and layout, and I’m pleased. I’d just like to take this timeout to nix all of the complaining about lack of features.