Adam Jordens@littlesquare:~/

If you’ve recently upgraded to OS X 10.5.1 and noticed your Cisco VPN client reporting a friendly ‘Error 51: Unable to communicate with the VPN subsystem‘ error, you’ll need to do the following.

sudo /System/Library/StartupItems/CiscoVPN/CiscoVPN restart

Essentially the Cisco VPN extension just needs to be restarted.
Thanks to Anders Brownworth for this tip.

Saw another interesting post over on DZone aptly titled Changes Are Expensive, Damn Expensive.
Now I agree more or less with the premise of the argument.  There will always be a cost associated with writing or releasing code, invariably this cost will rise as the product matures in the market and develops a sizable customer base.  [...]

A colleague pointed out an interesting article over on InfoQ aptly titled Is Quality Negotiable.
Obviously if you’ve ever written a line of code or used a piece of software this question has been implicitly or explicitly answered for you.
It’s fundamentally important that both individuals and organizational groups have a clear understanding of what quality means [...]