Flash frozen on time
A recent bug tripped me up for a few hours, and so I thought it would be kind to share my embarrassing story. In my daily business, I use flash based rotators, a lot. If you ever took the time to stop by my official web site, you could see that I put a lot of value in flash as a content distribution system. So, it is a great concern, when one day I found an issue in one of my flash rotators. In the middle of rotating through a series of carefully selected images, one of them froze, in its place, dead on the screen. The tween itself never stopped, leaving me with a jumbled mess of images on top of each other peering out over the sides. PANIC!
IPSEC Woes
Well, this was a long weekend for me. In the same weekend that I found a killer bug in some borrowed code, I lost my router. It was a decent router, Cyber Guard sg360. Ran on a linux kernel with PPTP and IPSEC support. The ipsec we used to connect remote extensions to our asterisk phone system across the internet. Great system when it worked (voice quality is still unbelievably good).