This morning at 00:18 BST the cable connection went down. Service was restored at 01:00 BST.
It wasn’t just the cable modem that went – all of the TV channels turned to snow, and this was backed up by the SB4100 diagnostics page, which showed 0 for the signal level. No, I’ve no idea who tripped over the data cable, but like a good admin I went to bed and waited for someone else to call in the problem 
Due to a VPN at work, the desire to IPSec from home and a collision of IP ranges, I needed to use a different range for home. Don’t ever, ever mistype the IP address on a Netgear RO318 and get it to end in a zero…
I did this (via the web interface), but just as I realised my mistake, the form was submitted. Bad, bad move. What should have been a 5 minute job (I had every system setting pre-configured and ready to launch after a reboot [yes, I know I don't have to reboot, but I wanted to ensure that everything would work after a reboot, as this server needs to be able to recover from such things by itself]) took over 40 minutes to figure out.
The result ? Mac OS X and NetBSD really hate machines ending in .0 and will refuse to telnet to them. Annoyingly, ping still worked, but after much messing around the only solution was to factory reset the RO318, and hope that I could remember all of the ports I forward…
Dopey web front end. If you’re going to force people to use one rather than the telnet interface, then at least it ought to trap insane values. Humph.
Cool – giving Google the search phrase ‘wincvs ssh‘ means that the guide on this site is the 7th hit !
I gave in on Saturday and got a G3 with 256MB CF card from Digital Depot. What a very nice camera
No real gallery to speak of – just rubbish I’ve been messing with, but with the amount of camera control available on this model, there’s going to be a lot of that before I’m done ! Yes, I realise that the G5 was announced earlier in the week, but there’s no real difference for me (ok, so making it look more like an SLR is nice, but about as useful to me as the added Sport mode), and the price on the G3 has dropped considerably in the three weeks prior to this.
Ok, ok. I just wanted more than the 1.3MP we currently have (Olympus C920Z/D450Z), and it seemed silly not to get one for summer. It does look like the Canon filter/lens adaptor is a bit silly, as the LensMate looks a far nicer item, and takes smaller filters, so doesn’t look as ungainly. I only have 37 or 49mm filters, so it’s no biggie (thanks for the lingo, Joss !) for me to go to 52 rather than 58.
The online gallery that Canon offer 100MB of storage with is a total joke, though – there’s no URL I can give out. Instead, I have to email every person that I want to share pictures with, and the system generates a unique URL so I can track when and how often they visit, but as a result the URL is long and totally impossible to repeat down a telephone to anyone but the most ardent tech-head. Too many features, Canon. This from someone who bought the G3 rather than the S50 just because of the number of features it provided, too…
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