Totally digging the drums…the RB2 set is a vast improvement over the RB1 set.

Sometimes I love living in Arizona.

So I recently moved my router from a 32 bit machine to an Amd64 machine, and switched from 32 bit ubuntu to 64 bit ubuntu.

One of the glitches I came across was that upnpd couldn’t register the root device.  I tracked the problem down to a bug with the upnp 1.4 library on x86_64.  I got pupnp-1.6.6 and compiled, installed, recompiled linux-igd, reinstalled that, and everything worked fine.

Hope this helps someone

It’s coming soon — I’m still working on making it possible to hide checked nodes.  There’s a lot of functionality that WinForms on .NET Compact Framework just doesn’t have, sadly.

So I decided to set my work VPN up as a demand-dial connection on my newly-virtualized PDC at home.  I ran into some bugs getting it set up to work for my whole network, so here’s what I did.

1. Set up the routing and remote access role on the PDC.  This can be done from the “Manage your Server” thing. This part’s pretty easy — just check all the options when you set it up.
2. Create a new interface from the  Routing and Remote Access MMC Snap-in.  Set it up as a demand-dial interface and configure it via the wizard.
3. Ping an IP on your remote network from the PDC to make sure it can dial on demand.
4. On the routing->general part of the snap-in, add a new routing protocol, and choose NAT.
5. Move down to the routing->NAT part and add an interface.  Add the VPN interface from step 2 and set it up as the public internet facing interface.  This will make it masquerade the traffic.
6. Ping your VPN network from a machine on your network other than the PDC.

Should work fine.

So I left the servers at full load (read: uptime 1.00/1.00/1.00 for the single logical cpu box I have) all night and this morning the room was a whopping ONE DEGREE hotter than the guest bedroom next to it.  Both rooms are the same size, left shut all the time, and have the registers closed.

This is in stark comparison to the +8 degrees it was before in there.

Pdanet on my iPhone is fucking cool.  I’m blogging from my MacBook Pro, using my iPhone’s internet connection.  While waiting in a parking lot.

I finally switched the router over.  4 machines.  1 physical box.  Cleaned the hell out of my office too finally.  There’s actually room in the closet again.