We make mistakes. Things crack and break.

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I have a Shiny New Work Laptop, a Dell Latitude C610. I wish it weighed half as much, but apart from that it's just fine. (It'd rate "lovely" if it had a DVD drive.)

I am on call starting next Monday evening. I am having VPN problems — it connects for a few minutes, then data stops flowing (though the connection doesn't drop). Apparently the NAT on a Speedtouch 510 (our DSL modem) blocks a few ports too many by default (and there's no way to bypass the NAT). Does anyone have clues on what needs to be unblocked for a Cisco VPN to work? I found instructions for a Nortel VPN ...

This morning I connected from home, crashed one of the two mail servers ("well, that sure broke the mirror"), went into the colo and waited two hours for the Sun engineer to show and replace the bad disk. Then I got to fix all manner of Solstice DiskShite problems with one chapter of the manual to hand. Learning by pitfall — it's a bit of a stress, but it focuses the attention marvellously.

Tonight will hopefully be the Voices of Masada gig.