The openconnect package summarizes itself as the "Open client for Cisco AnyConnect VPN". Here is a youtube video showing an openconnect session being started from the command line: http://www.youtube.com/embed/zBEUylO12vI I tried creating a connection via the...
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Generate Custom XML with Perl CGI.pm
I want to output custom XML without any HTML or DTD tags using CGI.pm Here is my hack to get what I'm after: #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use CGI qw(:standard -any); # use the -any option to turn on custom tags # e.g. I can use $r->item("Item Content") to create # Item...
Running around Headless with VirtualBox (Oracle Edition)
This is a script I use to start up a headless instance of virtualbox Run as root but it fires the vm up as the user you use virtualbox as. #!/bin/sh # Output of "vboxmanage list vms" # #"Windows XP Pro" {5998c1ff-f354-4d7d-b36d-987090351cb6} #"JMITS LSMB"...
Cisco SSL VPN on Windows XP SP3 – Remove Microsoft JVM and Joyous Shouting Results
I have a Windows XP Pro SP3 Virtualbox VM that I have been using to test connectivity to a Cisco ASA 5510 SSL VPN. Problem: Using Internet Explorer 8 and trying to launch an RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) session. It created a memory error and then Internet Explorer...
Accessing Cisco Clientless SSL VPN from Linux
At home I run Linux pretty much exclusively so anything I do at work tends to run the cross platform compatible path. When configuring a 'clientless' VPN on the ASA you install Cisco provided java plugins for Remote Desktop, ICA (Citrix), VNC and SSH/Telnet access...
Aptana 3 Rocks
Been trying to find a free (as in beer) development environment that is easy to use and configure with sensible defaults. Just downloaded Aptana 3 and after 2 days use. We have a winner. Things I like: Downloaded both Windows and Linux clients - Install was easy on...
jQuery [nodeName=ns1:result] syntax no longer works
Just tried to use [nodeName=namespace:node_name] syntax in Firefox and Chrome to get a result message from a soap responseXML and failed while using jquery-1.6.2.min.js and jquery-1.7.1.min.js: This is the contents from my jQuery.ajax "success:" blocks code success :...
Gnome Menu Editor “Alacarte” not working on Fedora 16
Yep it's a bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=752733 But there is a work-a-round: http://blog.mclaughlinsoftware.com/2011/11/24/gnome-menu-editing-fix/
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Viewing multi-page tiff files under Linux
I just used my HP Officejet Pro 8500A to scan a 2 page document to tiff format. It drops it into a samba share on my Fedora 16 box. Trying to open the tiff format scan on Linux and i could only see the first page. With the default viewer - which in my case is the...
