Another restless night, thinking about the stupid box. What's going on?

I realised, it's the camkey, the camkey doesn't come out. Why?

I've tried googling, I came across a groovy newsgroup post explaining how it all works (http://groups.google.com.au/groups?q=uec+cam+key&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=38ed8f03.0%40news1.mweb.co.za&rnum=5)

There must be something funny going on with the camkey, does the new firmware screw it up?

I searched around, not getting anywhere.

I started cleaning, I've arranged with some guy to drop his pc here tomorrow for me to fix it, it looks like a bomb's gone off in here, there's a tangle of about 50m of cat5 just inside the door, and the rest of the room is no better, there's junk with cat5 tangled around it.

About 12.30, my mate rang me, "it was my birthday last week eh?" he asks me, (only took him 8 days), our other mate is off to the US for a week, and the ADSL is buggered up. Somehow I think it's not working for a reason, I told him I'd come and have a look in a bit.

I started getting ready, I had intentions of going out, getting some grog, and coming back and getting pissed. I went and saw him, checked what was going on. I don't know what the idea was, the ADSL router was plugged into a network card, and then a second network card was connecting it to the switch, and the other pc through there, with 2 different network ranges, and XP internet connection sharing. It's no wonder it doesn't work.

I plugged the router straight into the switch, and reset all the IP settings on both PCs, and disabled the second network interface. What was the idea behind this?

Anyway, that took all of a few minutes to get working.

I then sat and had a chat to my mate for a while. We might go out for a drink later.

I went to the supermarket, bought a new light globe, to replace the one that blew last night, and the one that blew several weeks ago. I also got some coke to dilute my alcohol (the irony, I couldn't have a drink last night, because I only had cheap and nasty Bourbon, and nothing to dilute it), and some junk food. Oh yeah, and some shampoo, so now I don't have to wash my hair with the Aloe Vera crap I bought for my sunburn.

I came home, had a few drinks.

Spent a few hours looking for a vpn solution to setup a secure tunnel into my network. Finally came across zebedee, it's pretty cool, supports private/public key based security etc, got all that setup.