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vpnc on dd-wrt

By vorlon | October 16, 2007

I just found out that vpnc now seems to be part of the vpn build of the latest dd-wrt. Looks like I can finally try vpnc on my WRT54GL without too many difficulties. Although I don’t expect it to perform too well. The wiki page explaining vpnc on dd-wrt can be found here: http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/VPNC
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Towel Day

By vorlon | May 25, 2007

Don’t forget it’s Towel Day, in remembrance of Douglas Adams who died in 2001.
(Towel Day website)

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Nagios Checker Plugin for Firefox

By vorlon | April 19, 2007

When I was looking at Thunderbird/Firefox extensions earlier today, I found the Nagios Checker extension, which shows status reports from Nagios in the status bar of your browser. Really a useful and easy to configure tool

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Happy New Year

By vorlon | January 1, 2007

Happy New Year to everyone and the very best for 2007!
2007 is already one hour old here in Germany and we just passed 0:00 UTC, still a few “New Years” to come…

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Server Move / Rewrite Problems

By vorlon | December 15, 2006

Been quite a few days since I moved the blog to a new server, but I only just discovered that I forgot to copy the URL rewriting rules over. Well now I just did that and all links (archive/feeds/…) should work again.

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Aurora

By vorlon | December 14, 2006

Just got a mail saying that
a fast CME is passing Earth right now.
So there is a good chance to see aurora from now on.
SpaceWeather.com put an “Aurora Alert” note on their frontpage, so everyone have a look…

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RSS feeds from arXiv and NASA ADS

By vorlon | September 6, 2006

I’ve been using a RSS feed aggregator for blogs and news sites for quite a while and I have also been doing the same queries on ADS regularly as well as looking at the updated listings for astro-ph on arXiv.org. So I’m finally using RSS feeds for my standard queries on ADS… simply scroll to [...]

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ESO-MIDAS on Gentoo

By vorlon | March 15, 2006

Just got ESO-MIDAS 06FEBpl1.0 installed on my amd64 Gentoo system Last time I tried it didn’t work too well…

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