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As people might have noticed within the FreeBSD world, my blog world, and personally. I am very busy with work lately . Reason for that is that I was given the opportunity to become a Technical Designer, which means that I need to translate functional designs, into technical designs, write the proper documentation for it, go into meetings about what and how to approach certain things (I dont know everything, luckily ), and help the engineer (Lemar, you are doing a great job!) in implementing the proposed infrastructure.

We (lemar and I) were both new to this kind of work and the way it is handled, and I think we are doing a really good job so far. Things are not always great, but then we sit together one way or the other, and choose to make the fogg less foggy and clarify a few things.

We already have established one of the smaller goals of our project, and more to come very quickly. I just hope that the partner that we are doing this for, is as happy with the situation as we are. but I think we are fine

Anyway; I will try to blogpost a little more often, show my grumpy feelings about the decreasing privacy, tell happy things (like this one) and well whatever pops to mind.

After my latest replacement we noticed that my WAP4410N was a first generation version, having some problems with gigabit ethernet connections. After contacting Cisco we found out that the version should be replaced by a v2 instead.

Some difficulties with the replacement procedure (follow this, get a different ticket within the box, needing to get the arrangement with the carrier yourself) etc. I am now running on a fine working (so far at least) version2 WAP4410N.

Hurray for Cisco for their continued support!

So recently I had been asked to participate in a project and write Technical Designs. I never did that but it’s rather fun to do. Ofcourse it doesn’t go as smooth as planned yet, but slowly but surely there is progression. Lets see how this works out!

Ow yeah, 7.3 is almost ready!!! Stay tuned

Since 2 weeks we have a cat in our house, his name is Floris. Floris is a very friendly, loving cat, that enjoys being around us (most of the time). We took him under our care and we all love him very much, hopefully he enjoys us as much as we enjoy him . He’s black with white, seemingly he walked into the white paint and has the lower part of his body/feet/tail painted white Such a funny sight! It’s also great to see when Denise comes home, he starts prrr’ing and hugging her, so that seems he really missed her. He sits with her a lot of the time, so getting used to eachother becomes much more easy that way

Then, my parents are moving over, they are (finally) leaving the bad neighborhood of Rotterdam-South (IJsselmonde) and will be living at a much more friendly place to live in. For the past weeks I am helping in getting things going in and around the house arranging that the internet lines are still there when they move over, and that the hardware for that is prepared. Today I will be bringing in the first boxes that will mark the beginning of the actual move. There is one thing left that needs to be done (well two actually if you see things as seperated actions): The kitchen needs to be placed, and the walls need to be finished in the kitchen. The walls will be done rather soon, and the kitchen will be brought at some point (some parts are scheduled to arrive this week). When that’s done, the move is complete. Next weekend we will start the final phase out of IJsselmonde and have some time left to do “remaining items” .

Yesterday I upgraded my home PFSense version, I lost some local modifications (stupid of me) but I still have the newer files alive so I can generate diffs again. One funny thing is that the route 0.0.0.0/1 was added to my WiFi, preventing me from accessing the internets. The people of the team are very great, on the dev list there are plenty of clueful people around that can assist with various problems and ofcourse enhance the setup. Personally I am trying to see whether I can finish the OSPF stuff that was recently brought in under my request. There are a few rough edges in the current code that I took out, but I also want the daemon to be able to listen on multiple interfaces, set specific interface options so that you can get something like the IPSEC configuration, have one master configuration, that can be altered per interface. That way I can add the node back into the OSPF-cloud that a couple of friends from Snow and I are running

Well that was the huge amount of updates, oh yeah, tommorrow I will be traveling to amsterdam to meet the team there and see how they work and the like.

Funny. Last night people told us that it was going to snow around six o clock in the morning (I think a lot of people woke up early because of that and headed for work); but even though multiple parties believed that it was going to snow later on,it already started to snow around 0300 last night.

It seems to me that metereologic institutes are missing the boat a lot lately. Perhaps they want to keep up with the IPCC, who only misses items with a margin of 300 years.. A little mistake, thank you!