April 2008 Archives

Today the UPC technicians setup my internet connection. It requires two technicians to plug in the modem and make a phonecall to the UPC HQ. I wonder why there is no selfinstall option. At least this time they did not want to touch one of my PCs.

Afterwards i resetup a the soekris firewall. It was a bit tricky, because there was a display problem on the serial console, so it was a partial blind flight. And i forgot a couple of things, so it took longer than expected.

Things not to forget next time:

• /boot/loader.conf: console=comconsole


• /etc/ttys: enable ttyd0


• /etc/rc.conf: Add network configuration for sis0 and enable ssh

Because i wanted to use open-id authentication, i finally had to upgrade my templates to the MT4 version. The templates got a lot more complicated, but now hopefully it looks nearly as good as before. Things to read:

• This comment about creating sidebar elements
• How to Customize Default Styles in MT4