I have just purchased a 12g nano tank. I will post a full update in a couple of days.

My 480g tank is doing quite good... I am starting to have good micro algae growth so the snails should be happier.

I have not posted any pictures of my reef aquarium in a long time, so here goes:

I have removed some mushrooms, the leather coral and some zoanthids from this tank, and placed them in the 480g. They were originally purchased with the big tank in mind. I had some bad chemical warfare with all those softies and stonies mixed - never again. I'd rather have a bit barren looking tank (like above) but no warfare between the different species, than an overcrowded war zone.

I needed to connect to one of my client's VPN networks today. They used some form of Microsoft VPN server - they could not tell me exactly what version...

Since I am running on a Mac, I tried to use the built-in VPN client from Internet Connect. Since this is a Microsoft VPN it would most probably be PPTP based and not L2TP. So I created a new connection and tried... No luck - I got an authentication error, even though my credentials were perfect.

To test the credentials were really correct, I connected using Windows XP. The system prompted me to change my password as this was the first time I logged in, which I did. After that I was logged in successfully.