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I spent Bank Holiday Monday at the Heritage Inn Community Event. It was good to meet with my neighbors and to build bridges, so we can work together for the benefit of our locality. Viva Cricklewood! Lovely chicken too.

Brent Council recently signed a deal with Crapita Business Services for council tax and business rates administration and IT support systems. Reported to be worth £15m over 5 years, the function of the contract is to increase the council tax collection rate, with Crapita giving a guaranteed a collection rate for council tax and an anticipated £4.6 million in savings for the Council over the initial term of the contract....

After much fruitless searching for helpful documentation to assist me in setting up the VPN services on a Cisco RV 120W to work with the open source client from Shrew Soft, I thought I’d better make a post here to help others. I’m setting up the VPN to use xauth (usernames and passwords) to authenticate sessions. I want to allow DNS/WINS through the VPN tunnel and I want to allow ‘split tunnelling’ so that internet access still functions while the tunnel is up. I found a very helpful PDF guide to getting the Cisco device configured from [After much fruitless searching for helpful documentation to assist me in setting up the VPN services on a Cisco RV 120W to work with the open source client from Shrew Soft, I thought I’d better make a post here to help others. I’m setting up the VPN to use xauth (usernames and passwords) to authenticate sessions. I want to allow DNS/WINS through the VPN tunnel and I want to allow ‘split tunnelling’ so that internet access still functions while the tunnel is up. I found a very helpful PDF guide to getting the Cisco device configured from](http://www.thegreenbow.com/) who produce VPN client software. The PDF for that guide is here. I also found a PDF guide written by Cisco to getting the Shrew Soft client to talk to a Cisco SA 500. There is another technote on configuring the SA500 to accept the connections from a Shrew Soft client too, which is quite helpful. Read on for the recipe. ...

After the twitter feed of UK Gov ICT contracts emerged from the recent LinkedGov hackday I’ve been subscribed to searches for open source and linux. Now, aside from the useless daily email of ‘no results found’, the contracts finder does throw up some interesting things, like this procurement note from West Sussex Country Council for information technology services, Official EU reference: 31260-2011. This procurement note is for a schools management information system....

Brent Council must be expecting numbers as the hearing. The Licensing Committee has got the main chamber for tonight’s session.