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Use openconnect VPN on OS X instead of Cisco AnyConnect
AnyConnect requires registration and a support contract, but we can use open source software instead.
Host Plone site a level down with Apache and VirtualHostMonster
We had to use some _vh_* magic to get rewrites to work properly.
Ubuntu-11.04 on Dell T-105 with RAID: video and grub problems
At install time, the video blanked. After RAID setup, Grub didn't install.
CrashPlan on Headless Server
Use client on MacOS over ssh tunnel to headless server.
Build MongoDB on FreeBSD -- for Jenkins use
We use Jenkins to automate build and test; many of our projects use MongoDB, so we need a download tarball for it as 10gen doesn't offer a pre-built image.
Android TimeTracker data extraction
How to generate a report from the database managed by TimeTracker for Android by ABS
Koansys presents Jenkins CI at AgileDC
Chris Shenton will give a presentation/demo on the Jenkins continuous integration system at AgileDC
Restore disk from Crashplan (on OS X)
Crashplan saved our bacon but took a while to find the files -- ownership and location important.
Compile Python-2.7 on FreeBSD
Need to patch in order to fix problem with ${LDFLAGS}. Don't use --enable-shared.
Koansys on Pycon 2011 panel on "How to Sell Python"
Chris Shenton talked about getting python into Government projects
Emacs hangs on Flymake under OS X
Popup dialogs considered harmful.
TAL Order of Execution
A TAL memory aid for something I can never remember or find when I want to.
Plone on Slicehost
How to setup plone on slicehost
Run apache in the forground on ubuntu
since ubuntu renames the apache daemon binary from httpd to apache2 and requires sourcing the apache envvars it is not possible to start apache in the fg with httpd -X or apache2 -X annoyingly you must do the following sudo -i ; . /etc/apache2/envvars ; apache2 -X
Building Python-2.7 on FreeBSD
Building Plone failed because it couldn't find libraries, tweak build_ext.py to fix.
HTC Evo + PdaNet + BlueTooth on Mac OS X
Setting up networking over BlueTooth to the HTC Evo phone to use PdaNet to access the WAN seems tricker than it should be. But that seems mostly the fault of BlueTooth's byzantine setup.
Add VirtualBox Guest Additions to Centos, RHEL
To add the additions it needs the ability to compile kernel modules. On RHEL, if you don't have RHN license, you can install from a repo on the DVD. Once the Guest Additions are in, you get access to the Virtual Shared directory which is very useful to exchange files without network acces.
Finding all Trac instances users
It's an easy UNIXy one-liner... once you know to look in the permissions table.
Google Tasks: OSX App, Android
Fluid creates a desktop app, accessible by Android too
Koansys sponsors ZPUGDC Python group in DC
ZPUGDC is a Python, Zope, Plone user group worthy of support