C++

 Today I managed to knock up a quick demo of loadable C++ plugins. Tommorow I'm going to wrestle with libtool to try and make them portable.

Work

 Most of today was spent testing the recently rebuilt Apache installations I've installed - to make sure they're working correctly. This is necessary because the setup is rather complex. (mod_auth_mysql, mod_fastcgi, +ssi, mod_perl, and php). After that it was a lot of fiddling around with the kernel of our gateway machine getting freeswan installed.

 Freeswan looks like it will provide a good VPN solution but the magic patching of the kernel didn't work. So I had to do it manually. Ouch. Many, many build errors had to be fixed by hand. Tommorow morning I'll actually install my freshly built kernel - and test it out. That does mean another early morning though :(

Life

 tardis is down - so no email for the next few days. This might affect my application to the Debian project. :(