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Logging into Mednet VPN

The following podcast walks through the steps needed to login to the Mednet VPN. From download, to install, to pcf import, to accessing lab resourc...

Compiling a 4-way universal perl binary on osx

If you don't like having all of your perl modules overwritten by cavalier osx server updates, then you're either going with a macports install o...

30 Days with TextMate

I've been a vim user for years, but since moving to OSX I've been hearing a lot about TextMate. Since I always encourage others to keep an open min...

Odd Python 'isms

First, I'd like to readily admit that I'm a Python newbie and more than welcome any corrections to the below hitches I've run into that might le...

Useful Defaults Hacks for OSX

Disable Guest Accounts for Shares on OSX Tiger sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.AppleF...

Dell Perc 5i on Ubuntu 64

I've been setting up an Ubuntu server on a Dell with a 29xx series with a Perc 5i SAS/SATA RAID controller. It took a bit of digging around and ...

ZSH networksetup completion

#compdef networksetup # J. A. Kyle # March 05 2009 _networksetup() { local expl curcontext zstyle -T ":completion:${curcontext...

Showing tabs in Vim

Now that the lab has decided to use Python, I occasionally run into the dreaded "indentation error" that is darn near impossible to find by eye....

Agile Project Setup for Python

This is a quick summarization of the screen casts found at ShowMeDo. It's a good quick reference for getting a project up and going with nosetes...

*FIX* mod_rewrite: could not init rewrite log lock in child

Ran into this issue a couple of times already, duplicating it here so I dont' have to go dig for it again: Error [crit] (2)No such f...

Auto-Configure OSX clients for BackupPC

This script auto-configures osx 10.4-10.5 clients for backup via BackupPC. It creates a hidden backuppc user with standard permissions. Limits t...

HandBrakeCLI Presets

Found this over at snipplr, thought I'd duplicate here for my own reference: 1) AppleTV ./HandBrakeCLI -i DVD -o ~/Movies/movie.mp4 -...

Command Line Group Management

Adding a user: dscl . append /Groups/admin GroupMembership gneagle Removing a user: dscl . delete /Groups/admin GroupMembership gneagle Read...

Disable Extended Attributes for Tar Backup

To disable the tar'ing of extended attributes (those pesky ._foo files), export the following variable: For Tiger: export COPY_EXTENDED_...

Using Cyberduck

Cyberduck is an SFTP (Secure File Transfer Protocol) GUI that is extremely intuitive and easy to use. It works much like that old stand by FTP, ...

Fixing errant Share Points

Recently, I ran into an issue where Share Points which were removed from Server Admin were showing up as stale links in my clients. Though not d...

Leopard Server Postfix TLS Error: cannot get private key from file /etc/certificates/mycert.key

The problem here is that postfix is failing on encrypted TLS certs and OSX ServerAdmin created certs are encrypted. The fix is, as should be exp...

Creating postfix aliases

Just a reminder of the postfix alias flow. I don't do it enough to remember off the top of my head and this saves me the google time. ...

Fix for missing X11 libraries in Leopard

This solution comes straight from Penny Smalls. I've just put it here for personal reference. Some small breakage in Leopard - it se...

Compiling lapack 3.1.1 on Leopard

OSX contains an incomplete lapack library by default in the vecLib framework. But if you want the full power of lapack 3.1.1, you have to compil...

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