Monthly Archive: March 2009

Mar
07

Cisco VPN Software Replacement under OS X

Just as I had finished complaining about Cisco’s VPN drivers causing crashes, I stumbled across a macosxhints.com hint about vpnc. Looks like this is well worth the effort to install and try it out. This will let me get that Cisco code out of my kernel and perhaps make the lock-ups go away. Further instructions …

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Mar
07

Theme Problems

Something isn’t working properly with my normal theme, so I have installed the WordPress ugly default until I can debug the combination of Themes and plugins I was using previously.

Mar
04

VM and VPN woes

I’ve been using a Mac since 2003, and I love it. It is far and away my favorite machine of all time, I’ve had several and I will continue to buy and use them. For software development and general messing around, having a BSD-like OS under a pretty hood has been VERY excellent. One things …

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Mar
01

Spotted in the Wild: XOF1 Solar Car

As we were driving North on CA-1 on our way back from the elephant seal rookery, KC and I saw an odd vehicle off in the distance. At first it looked like a wide-load with some sort of farm equipment in the front. As the ‘farm equipment’ got closer (it was closing fast) it started …

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Mar
01

PoTW : Elephant Seals

KC and I took a trip down near San Simeon to see the elephant seals. Managed to get a few shots and put a set up on Flickr. These animals were really amazing. More information at Friends of the Elephant Seal .