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I have just left my job of the last 5+ years, we went out to Auntie Annies for beer & AM:PM for food to celebrate the occasion. Thank you to everybody who made the last 5 years interesting & enjoyable, it’s certainly been an experience! We endured the bursting bubble, the threat of redundancy, an MBO and many other things I’m sure. A double thanks to all those who turned up tonight and made my send off special, it really is much appreciated, even if you were all just there to make sure I really left this time (I tried to leave once before, in August 2001, it got as far as the card going round the office…but I was convinced other wise at the last moment!

My wife asked me to see if I could get a copy of a BBC Radio 4 program into MP3 for her boss, the program was on the freedom of information act, called A Right to Know, you can listen to it here. The BBC make most of there radio content available under “Listen Again”, where you can stream it using Real Player, so I don’t feel too bad about ripping it.

..some projects i wish I had more time to work on: Mobile Phone Bill Parser – I’ve started this, in Perl with CDBI, it’ll load in an O2 downloaded bill, the idea is to have Business/Personal against each number in my address book, so that I can easily prepare an expenses claim, also handle the standard call rates, so that my free minutes don’t get given to my company 🙂 I’ve been getting very disolusioned with CDBI � more interested in Java, so I might try and redo this in Trails…

Some helpful sites to start with: http://www.kame.net/newsletter/20001119b/ http://www.kame.net/newsletter/20001119/ http://www.debian-administration.org/?article=37 http://www.ipsec-howto.org/x299.html http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Adv-Routing-HOWTO/ http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Adv-Routing-HOWTO/lartc.tunnel.gre.html http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/VPN-HOWTO/ http://www.littleyojik.co.uk/computers/debian_vpn.html http://www.funknet.org/doc/tunnel/l2tp.xml http://perlpimp.dk/perma/2005/03/21/setting_up_a_vpn_with_racoon/ http://www.sherman.ca/archives/2004/11/21/linux-26-ipsec-vpns/ http://www.fukt.bth.se/~teddy/debian-ipsec http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/10/21/wifi_ipsec.html?page=1 http://www.rommel.stw.uni-erlangen.de/~hshoexer/ipsec-howto/HOWTO.html#LAN http://vpn.ebootis.de/ http://www.shorewall.net/IPSEC-2.6.html#id2749213 http://eradman.com/article/gre1 http://linux-ip.net/gl/ip-tunnels/node2.html Cisco http://www.ciscopress.com/articles/article.asp?p=25477&rl=1 http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/471/ios-aes.html http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios113ed/113t/113t_3/ipsec.htm

C|Net have a good interview with Andy Bechtolsheim [Bechtolsheim’s machine dreams ]1

I’m a regular reader of the Internet Storm Center Handlers Diary, there have been some recent mentions of the DShield project, where you can upload your router/firewall logs to there central monitoring system, so that they can gather stats & produce reports on the ebb & flow of certain attacks and probes. They also a scheme called FightBack: DShield.org is now helping users to fight back against attackers. We will analyze submitted log reports and pick a number of strong cases to forward them to the ISP from which the attack originated.

..ok, none of this is hard, but I get stuck in the odd place, mainly the Cisco router throwing this: ISAKMP (0:1): Checking IPSec proposal 1 ISAKMP: transform 1, ESP_3DES ISAKMP: attributes in transform: ISAKMP: SA life type in seconds ISAKMP: SA life duration (basic) of 28800 ISAKMP: encaps is 1 ISAKMP: authenticator is HMAC-SHA ISAKMP: group is 2 validate proposal 0 IPSEC(vaidate_proposal): transform proposal (prot 3, trans 3, hmac_alg 2) not supported

I’m building an offsite digital vault, so that my current employers can stream all our backups to this box which will be based about 100 miles from our current office. Here’s some notes on what will be required to get Debian Sarge up and running on Supermicro H8DAR Opteron mobo with a pair of 3Ware 9000 SATA cards. (we’re using a 16 disk, 3u box from PCI Case, which is a great box, but with hind sight, our mobo suppliers, Boston, do a rather nice 3u 16 disk dual opteron box with 3Ware cards, all for abou 300ukp more that we bought the parts, a much better solution.

Sky News suprisingly on the money for one 🙂

Some notes on getting the second head on your i810 based PC here, I’ve got the CRT pipe working, but can’t get it to go to a higher res than the LCD at the moment 🙁