I’m doing some research into setting up a VPN for my house and for work, so I can share stuff off the home machine to myself and keep it in one place (and then I’ll have to get some kind of tape backup, and…ugh.)

Doing a basic search sent me to this site, where I found a basic overview and some directions to the Microsoft site, with a white paper on PTPP installation for Windows NT machines, and some other smaller links. Netgear, as usual, has a fantastic primer on their site, which doubles as a tie-in to sell one of their products. On the MacinTouch site, i found the Nortel link for a client being developed for the Mac, which led to some other interesting ideas and links. I looked through the documentation for my SMC router and found that it supports PTPP tunneling, so it’s a question of whether or not I can set up the protocol on SLANN.

tornado warnings in the Baltimore metro area. 6:30PM, 6.7.02

On the brighter side, my camera arrived today! I’ve spent the afternoon fooling with it and I’m really pretty happy with the whole thing so far. The pictures look really great, the camera is easy to use, and I like the card reader interface a lot. It came with a 16MB card, which gives me 25 large-format pictures and somewhere around 125 medium-resolution pictures. More pictures as they become available, and I will start adding stuff to the site immediately.