Commandline OpenVPN client on Mac OSX with macports

January 31, 2013 at 07:40 AM | categories: Sysadmin, Mac OS X, Tips, Security, Unix | View Comments
Most people use TunnelBrick to setup OpenVPN client connections on Mac OSX, i prefer using the command line. To get OpenVPN up and running off the command line is a simple process. The commands below need to be run as...
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Automating translation of software using the Microsoft Translator and Python

January 25, 2013 at 07:40 AM | categories: Sysadmin, Tips, Unix, Linux | View Comments
The Microsoft translator provides an API that you can use for automated translation. It currently supports about 39 languages. True to the nature of open source i found that someone had already written a python wrapper to the API. I...
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Boot into single user mode on various unixes

January 24, 2013 at 07:40 AM | categories: Sysadmin, Tips, Unix, Linux | View Comments
Press a to append to the boot options then add single grub append> ro root=LABEL=/ single Press L1+a or STOP+a to enter OpenBoot PROM then type boot -s Select maintanance mode from the boot menu...
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How to update man keywords database

January 16, 2013 at 07:40 AM | categories: Centos, Ubuntu, Sysadmin, Unix, RHEL, Linux, Tips | View Comments
Man keywords database allow you to search for man pages using keywords, the database needs to be updated when ever man pages are added or removed. This is how you do it for various *nix types. mandb ...
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