Now running Kamikaze 7.06 on the router - WPA works again now. Need to setup OpenVPN again.

$ ssh -l root 192.168.1.2 ( Read more... )

I've just had to shell out almost £500 to get a child safety grill installed in the pond ( Read more... )

Woot! I have a working router running OpenWRT linux based firmware, and acting as an OpenVPN based ether bridge terminus to the network in Derby. That was remarkably easy, except for the lack of WPA encryption - for some reason although it is supposedly supported it doesn't work for me.
$ ssh 192.168.1.2 -l root ( Read more... )

Well, the OpenVPN link works better than I ever expected ( Read more... )

Oddly, for some reason I have just remembered one of the high points of my life ( Read more... )

Well, it seems as if Charles Stross has come up trumps again with "Glasshouse ( Read more... )

Well, THQ UK responded quickly, and have run down an extensive list of suggestions for me.... none of which have worked.

Still, kudos to them for being responsive and polite.

At the end of the day, it is experiences like this which make me believe PC gaming really is dead, and reach for my xbox controller.

My US transfer has been approved. Now 4 months of paperwork loom.

I'm now a charted engineer (CITP)

One of the best thing about standards ... is that there are so many of them to chose from ( Read more... )