5 posts tagged “phixed”

Since I first saw this pic of Phixed I've been meaning to do this one. I'm glad I finally got to it.

Yeah I'm kind of grumpy today. I've had this cold thing brewing for the last few days and each day it gets a little worse. I usually get these sore throats that completely go away by mid morning so it's no big deal. This time the sore throat isn't going away. This morning it was pretty nasty, felt like I had a pill stuck at the back of my throat. I hit it with some Listerine which gave me like a minute of relief, better than nothing.

Not sure if I've got a fever but I do feel hot. I've got a lot of crap that needs to get done before the end of the week so I really can't duck out of the office. My plan is lots of piping hot green tea and minimal contact with other humans lest my grumpiness spoil someone's day.

My VPN woes continue with Phixed. I've tried logging in to his VPN via both pc and mac using many different VPN tools, both on my home network and here at work. I've played with all the settings on my home router going so far as to completely disable all security on the darned thing but nothing seems to work. At first we believed that it was a password issue which may or may not have been the case. I've pretty much given up at this point and have asked for an SSH connection but they're telling me that their sever doesn't support SSH. Anything is possible but I've never heard of such a server. So that whole thing is up in the air, adding to my grumpiness.

That's right folks, Phixed admitted to getting "overzealous" with the Snag-It arrows. I understand completely. I think we've all been there before, discovering the arrow feature on Snag-It and getting a little crazy with the Cheese-Wiz as it were. It sure caught my eye and I knew exactly what he was talking about so I guess his little technique worked.

In case you're wondering what that's called and how to make one, they're called "favicons". Since I use a MAC (and I suggest you use one too) here's a great tutorial for making them with photoshop cs2 on a MAC. Personally I think they're not all that great but if you think a 16x16 image will float your boat, by all means knock yourself out.

I've banished my client "Phixed" to the naughty stool. He's got this wacky setup where I have to login to a VPN to access FTP to upload changes to his website. I spent 4 days trying to set this lousy VPN connection on both my Mac and my PC, fiddled with my network, my firewall, and all my security settings trying to get it to fly, only to find out that he sent me the wrong password. Phixed, you will now spend 30 minutes on the naughty stool. Off you go.