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Fix for Parallels 3.0 and Cisco VPN Client 4.9 (error 51)

After some serious struggling with my Cisco VPN client - that stopped working, throwing up an error 51- again Google showed to be a real friend.

I find this posting at Chris Barber's blog, who found a posting about the matter in Parallels forum.

Duh. It was Parallels. For me the key is sudo ifconfig fw0 down

Now that's good information :)

World (blog) domination

I guess I can already state that I'm hardly a blogger, and I guess my approach is more 'loose canon', with a slight huge preference for easy postings, with an image or something (quick and elegant easy so to speak), rather than 'niche', -but he- you'll never know where this might end if -for some -reason- I end up doing this like, err regularly, or so. And getting into the hits (42 so far, thank you). Anyway, it's a top x, it's funny, so it's so blog material.

Diz one.

Oh, and I found it on a blog from someone I clicked into and think is funny: www.aboutblank.nl (Yep, that's three).

PS. (an)other not self: 2 <strike>s is probably enough for a month or two three.

Back to London & prepared

I'll be EasyJetting back to London this afternoon. Really looking forward to go home. I love London, although it's too expensive, too big and too crowded.

Part of the solution for those shortcomings is not to go out too much (love to shellter in our basement) and not to take cabs all the time (altough cabs are funny enough dead cheap compared to Amsterdam rates).

Anyway, I try to avoid the tube during peak hours at all cost, but sometimes there's simply no other way.

So I'm pretty happy with this great article @ Hack the Day. Next time, I'll be prepared!

caffeine kick

I just tried to open one of those handy proportioned instant coffee sachets, espresso flavour. With my teeth.

note to self: Don't do it, it's nasty.

Cashflow trouble

This international money transfer jungle is really mixing me up.. I never really figured out how this 'international standardized' system worked, where the the US ABA and SORT code, the UK throws in Sort and BIC code (I think) and the (rest of the) Europe IBAN and BIC.

So I tried to enlighten myself and did a bit of Googling. That did't help.

The way I read it, Bruno from 41things thinks that IBAN, BIC and Swift are different things, but I'm pretty sure that IBAN = Swift.

But how to convert IBAN/BIC/Swift to ABA/Routing/whatever for US transactions? I dunno. But I found a solution. Or better.. after my coffee I noticed the ABA field was optional (so I skipped). I pasted in my IBAN into the remarks box and clicked on save.

now let's see what happens..

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