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Installing the Cisco VPN Client on Windows 7

This set of instructions exists more or less on more than one site, usually completed by a few follow-up comments. For my own sanity and future reference, these are the 100% reproducible set of installation instructions, which prevent a nasty … Continue reading

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Inserting video content into a LiveJournal comment

Yesterday I was looking for good instructions on inserting video content into a LiveJournal comment (for someone else) and couldn’t find any. So, after being successful, I felt it my geek duty to write up my directions in case, some … Continue reading

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Set Up WebDAV for iCal Sharing on ubuntu 8.04

Enabling WebDAV for iCal publishing/sharing is fairly straightforward: 0. Install apache2 (if it’s not already installed): sudo apt-get install apache2 1. Create a WebDAV directory in your DocumentRoot with the proper permissions: mkdir -p /var/www/webdav chmod -R 777 /var/www/webdav 2. … Continue reading

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Cygwin Prompt Here (for tcsh)

In a post I can no longer find, Scott Hanselman blogged about a registry entry to add a “Command Prompt Here” item to Windows’ right-click context menu. This has, many times, saved me almost 30 seconds of opening cmd.exe and … Continue reading

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Newseum: Today’s Front Pages

The other day, I caught a post on Signal Vs. Noise about using Automator in OS X to grab your favorite newspaper’s front pages from Newseum as PDFs and join them. This sounded like a great idea, so I set … Continue reading

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Floppy Disk Pen Holder

Quite a while ago, my wife left me alone at home for an evening with nothing to do. Arguably, I could have cleaned or something, but I was feeling crafty, and had happened upon a tutorial on Instructables for creating … Continue reading

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Keeping SSH connections open (in PuTTY)

Lifehacker posted an article this morning about keeping SSH connections open in Linux (which was just a re-posting of an article on FOSSwire). This is helpful for all of those Linux users out there, but for those of us who … Continue reading

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