Comments for Harsh but fair

Comment on KDE4 Save Current Session – DBUS to the Rescue by Stef

Stef — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:56:07 +0000

Hi,

I stumbled upon your blog entry while trying to figure out how to save the KDE4 session. Now (KDE 4.3) they “solved” the bug, but to me it was still very unclear how to save the damned session.

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=182662

The option is “hidden” in the kickoff menu in the “LEAVE” tab. However, in lancelot (http://lancelot.fomentgroup.org/main) – that I’m using – the option is not displayed. Also, I am a bit disappointed that this option is not displayed in the Session Management window… but still.

Bye.

Comment on Mac OS X Snow Leopard & Cisco AnyConnect VPN by raetsel

raetsel — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 07:42:00 +0000

Hi Michael,

Had the VPN connection used to work before you upgraded to Snow Leopard or is it new?

You need to check the configuration at the remote end has the correct policy in place for your account to allow you access to the server you want on the ports you need e.g. 25,110 or 993 for stmp, pop or IMAP ( 443 for exchange )

Try opening a terminal and see if you can ping the server without any fully qualified domain name, just the hostname. If not try using traceroute to see how far the connection is going.

If you can ping the hostname try using telnet hostname 25 ( or 110 or whatever ) see if that gets a connection. If it does then it shows the remote end is ok and it is a problem with mail somehow, if not it suggests a remote VPN AnyConnect policy/access or firewall problem.

HTH
Simon

Comment on Mac OS X Snow Leopard & Cisco AnyConnect VPN by Michael Brandeis

Michael Brandeis — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:43:10 +0000

I am using cisco anyconnect vpn so that I can use my apple mail program to send mail from a remote serve. However while connected to VPN the mail program does not get (downloads) any new messages. Any idea why and how to solve this.
Thanks

Michael

Comment on Some Logic by spiderlama

spiderlama — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 04:24:33 +0000

!x flips everything in x, so && becomes || and x becomes !x.

!(!a || !b) => !(!a) && !(!b) => a && b

Comment on Samba Shares, Spaces and fstab (With a bit of Octal thrown in) by Bart van Deenen

Bart van Deenen — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 08:30:08 +0000

Thanks for the posting. The dollar octal value 44 does work fine in fstab!

Comment on Using Exclude Files in rsync – watch those spaces! by aj

aj — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 23:05:49 +0000

Thank you!!! I spent the past hour+ trying to figure out why my –exclude-from option wasn’t working and this was it. Amazing.

Comment on Mac OS X Snow Leopard & Cisco AnyConnect VPN by Rodney

Rodney — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:53:08 +0000

AWESOME…. Worked perfectly

Comment on Mac OS X Snow Leopard & Cisco AnyConnect VPN by Aaron

Aaron — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:50:21 +0000

Thanks, that worked just great. I was just about to go to the beta version of AnyConnect.

Comment on Snmpd filling up /var/log/messages by Dovydas Sankauskas

Dovydas Sankauskas — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:02:15 +0000

Thank you for the tip. On Debian squeeze with snmpd 5.4.1 you have to use:

SNMPDOPTS=’-LS4d -Lf /dev/null -u snmp -I -smux -p /var/run/snmpd.pid 127.0.0.1′

With capital S and without spaces. Otherwise you’ll get:

Restarting network management services:invalid syslog facility: -

Comment on Snmpd filling up /var/log/messages by Rainer

Rainer — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 11:10:54 +0000

The problem of big or small ’s’ could be caused by the outdated non english man pages. For example the german man page in RHEL5 is seriously outdated – so better do.

rpm -e man-pages-de