ze blog of simon

I changed jobs back in October 2005, and became a Microsofty again (well, only on my work laptop), at the weekend I lost it again and ditched XP in favour of Ubuntu Edgy Eft, ‘cos getting Debian on a laptop and getting all the funky bits working is just too much like hardwork.

One of the companies I work for uses OWA for all non-corporate laptop email access.

OWA for Ex2k3 sucks on anything but IE. Some kind soul has scripted up an IE6 installation using Wine. Love it.

http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Installation:Ubuntu

http://www.debianadmin.com/running-internet-explorer…

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..or has the potential to be in the wrong hands.

http://neopoleon.com/home/blogs/neo/archive/2003/09/29/5458.aspx

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Flock Start Page



Playing with Flock, the last time I looked, it wasn’t worth the effort, but then I didn’t blog or do flickr…maybe it will be more useful this time round.

Blogged with Flock

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There are lots of different ways of tracking a project (i.e. a list of tasks, dates, calendars, time frames, notes etc), with various tools (MS Project, Basecamp from 37Signals, Google Calendar, Horde and a gazillion other applications and online tools).

But so far not all of them manage the ideal all of all of the information everywhere. I would love to have the information spread acoss my PDA (Palm, online & offline), Laptop(Outlook, Thunderbird, online & offline) & web-based online access. Certain amounts of this can be done with SyncML, various sync tools & sites (Zyb, ScheduleWorld, Funambol). I like replication. Safety in numbers. Add into this the fact that I work in some awkward environments (I have my corporate laptop, with Outlook/Exchange, I have client sites where I only have OWA, and sometimes I want to get at the data when I’m out and about)

So, how to solve this problem? An application that supports various storage backends.

Tasks & Calendars that can save out details to Horde, Google, Exchange (over WebDAV/IMAP)

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I applied this patch: http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/?id=4193 to my syncml horde instance, working well so far, just have to get my head round the mess of a naming convention in the iCal world.

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Some helpful sites to start with:

http://www.kame.net/newsletter/20001119b/

http://www.kame.net/newsletter/20001119/

http://www.debian-administration.org/?article=37

http://www.ipsec-howto.org/x299.html

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Adv-Routing-HOWTO/

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Adv-Routing-HOWTO/lartc.tunnel.gre.html

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/VPN-HOWTO/

http://www.littleyojik.co.uk/computers/debian_vpn.html

http://www.funknet.org/doc/tunnel/l2tp.xml

http://perlpimp.dk/perma/2005/03/21/setting_up_a_vpn_with_racoon/

http://www.sherman.ca/archives/2004/11/21/linux-26-ipsec-vpns/

http://www.fukt.bth.se/~teddy/debian-ipsec

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/10/21/wifi_ipsec.html?page=1

http://www.rommel.stw.uni-erlangen.de/~hshoexer/ipsec-howto/HOWTO.html#LAN

http://vpn.ebootis.de/

http://www.shorewall.net/IPSEC-2.6.html#id2749213

http://eradman.com/article/gre1

http://linux-ip.net/gl/ip-tunnels/node2.html

Cisco

http://www.ciscopress.com/articles/article.asp?p=25477&rl=1

http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/471/ios-aes.html

http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios113ed/113t/113t_3/ipsec.htm

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bush-disaster

Sky News suprisingly on the money for one

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