ITS SNOWING
FIRST SNOW FALL OF THE SEASON!! W00T!!!
End Of Vista Testing
Well the same reason that I never last very long running linux on my laptop is the same reason why I’ve reformatted. Games. FFXI doesn’t work to happily on vista. While I can play it, after a while it locks up the machine, and thats just annoying. One of these days game makers are going…
FFXI On Vista
Recently I’ve been getting back into Final Fantasy XI. While I was never a big fan of the Final Fantasy series, FFXI is a little different from the rest, and is by far my favorite MMORPG of all time. Of course the issue is that I’m running Vista on my laptop. Generally Vista and everything…
The Virtues of OpenVPN – Part 3
Yesterday I wrote about how to get a Windows client up on OpenVPN via service. But what if you want to deploy a number of these and don’t want to write up 10 page “HOWTO Install” docs? Well, that is exactly what I thought, so I automated the proccess. Here’s what I did: Put together…
The Virtues of OpenVPN – Part 2
If your like me coming from the PPTP frame of mind, you only dialed the OpenVPN connection on the clients when it was needed. This is good, but OpenVPN includes its own service which makes it all the more awesome. As soon as you client machine starts (in this case windows) so does OpenVPN (if…
The Virtues of OpenVPN – Part 1
Ah, I have discovered the wonderful warm and fuzzy feeling that is OpenVPN. Now its not that I’ve never heard of OpenVPN before, I just never really got around to using it. The oddest piece of OVPN is that there is no “server” or “client” software. They have a single piece of software that simply…