Lazy Rainy Weekend
Been a pretty quiet weekend. Yesterday Dave came over and we got the futon setup, I’ll get some pictures posted later today. It’s fairly comfortable, and now I can watch TV in something other than my computer chair. After that I went over to George Gordon to try and get their VPN stuff fixed again. I still can’t get the damn Netopia router to pass GRE packets correctly, I’m convinced now that it needs a firmware upgrade, or we need to stop using it for NAT, and enable NAT on our own router. I think the latter is what we’re going to end up doing. After that, Dave, Don (our contact at George Gordon), myself, and all of the Don’s and Dave’s and some other people’s kids went to dinner at Ground Round in Nashua, there were 12 of us in all. I kindof felt like an outside observer for most of the evening, but it’s better than sitting around doing nothing.
Today I havn’t done much of anything except tinker with the I-Opener some more. I’ve got it to boot Slackware Linux now, with a little help from some forum postings. For my next trick I’ll be working on getting X running on it. Shouldn’t be too hard, I’m sure someone has posted their config files somewhere. I also need to cut a hole in some of the RF shielding, for which I need to either improvise some tools, or maybe just go out and buy a Dremel.
