More miscellaneous stuff to start the morning. Actually the whole day sorta turned into that. Went to Willow Gate for lunch, which is always a good time. In the afternoon we had a department meeting and all got to sign papers saying we won't talk about stuff. Gotta love those. After work I started poking around with ssh tunnels and iptables. I now have a script that loads up secure tunnels and adds in iptables rules so any outgoing traffic to certain hosts and ports go through the tunnels. Got pop3, smtp, www, news, lots of vncs. Basically my laptop has a sorta vpn that's just through SSH, but also has some other funky rules. The biggest benefit for me is I don't have to worry about getting smtp out, but even more important I can hit any wireless AP I want and things I care about are encrypted. I suppose I should probably include IM in the mix at some point, but that's not exactly secure anyways... The evening actually was going pretty well, and then Avalon decided it needed a reboot. Took 15 minutes to come up too, which wasn't fun. I think I'm gonna seriously start looking at forcing OS 9 users to use WebDAV to access their files. This is just crazy...