An update on my reef
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.
Mac OS X, Microsoft and VPN
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.
Determining socket owners on Mac OS X
In the Linux world one has netstat and fuser to figure out which PID has opened a given socket. In Mac OS X, netstat does not provide PID's and fuser is missing...
I found this interesting article on how to solve this dillema.
Basically you use the lsof utility that displays a list of open files (a socket is handled as a special file) and the owner PID's:
I've got copepods!
About four days ago I started seeing very faint signs of diatoms on my glass - and knew it was not long before the pods would start showing up. Well, three days ago I started noticing them - thousands of tiny copepods.
This is a good day.
Merger
Seems I like consolidating things... I have just merged my reef blog with my main blog - I just hate all these billions of small sites floating around.
I'd much rather have one place where I can blog about everything and people can filter based on the categories they are interested in.
Hope this works better for everyone.