Archives for March, 2010

Mr Benn strikes again


As if by magic, the shopkeeper appeared. As if I don’t need anything else to get involved with and take up my time I’ve been bit with the old aviation bug again. That said its not as daft as I would have myself believe as it rolls up a number of interests of mine. I [...]

Return of the VPN


My VPN problem has been resolved. I came home yesterday to find my network dead and my DHCP pool missing. Amid a host of flashing lights and APIPA addresses I unravelled the problem and got everything back up and running. O2 had remotely applied firmware 7.4.20.5 to my router but still I had no VPN. [...]

O2 and the mysterious case of the missing VPN


It may as well be a murder mystery. I’ve killed the best part of a week on this and I’m still without a satisfactory resolution. The story goes like this. I rely upon a VPN connection to access the office from home. I don’t use it all the time but when something goes wrong and [...]