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Add VirtualBox Guest Additions to Centos, RHEL
To add the additions it needs the ability to compile kernel modules. On RHEL, if you don't have RHN license, you can install from a repo on the DVD. Once the Guest Additions are in, you get access to the Virtual Shared directory which is very useful to exchange files without network acces.
Finding all Trac instances users
It's an easy UNIXy one-liner... once you know to look in the permissions table.
Google Tasks: OSX App, Android
Fluid creates a desktop app, accessible by Android too
Koansys sponsors ZPUGDC Python group in DC
ZPUGDC is a Python, Zope, Plone user group worthy of support
IPython in ZODB debug session
notes to myself to remember how to do this, again
Compiling Erlang (R13x) on Snow Leopard
A total piece of cake now. Big steps forward from R12x
Comparison of Accounting Software
Is it easier to enter our expenses, receipts, payments into accounting software or give them to an accountant? Are web-accessible systems better than desktop software?
Sync Apple iCal with Google Calendar
Snow Leopard makes syncing Google calendars easy but you'll need to push existing iCal calendars.
Use DJBDNS to slave a zone from a master
It's not like BIND but it's not hard either. Master-IP-based directories hold domain-name files that tell the "puller" where and what to get.
Git SVN notes
Newbie notes on using Git with a remote SVN repo.
Set PATH on OS X
standard .bash_profile and .login didn't work for me
Create Plone Initial Content with Generic Setup
It seems like it's almost easy but there's too many missing pieces of info. Perhaps this will contribute to the discussion. This is on Plone-3.3rc4.
Compile Subversion on OS X with Neon, SSL
Problems abound: system's old neon, makefile ignoring location of new neon, ssl, and lions and tigers and bears, oh my.
Buildout for Django with PostgreSQL on OS X
Need to install PostgreSQL from source so buildout of psycopg2 can find libraries, includes and commands.
Sieve server-side mail filtering with Postfix, Dovecot
Turned out to be easier than I expected, but took a bit of poking around.
Django forms with ManyToManyFields
Saving the form data with the many-to-many relations is subtle if you're not using save() in the normal way: your relations aren't committed to the DB.
VPN to Cisco on OS X with 'vpnc'
vpnc builds fine and can auth, but then complains about ESP error, unless you use the right switch.
Install FreeRADIUS on OS X
Tweak a couple switches to avoid link failure against Perl
Building Python with --enable-shared in non-standard location
We want to use mod_wsgi but getting python to link at runtime isn't obvious.
Subscribe to Google Groups with Non-Google Address
Inconsistent behavior is confusing, but it's easy.
Add VirtualBox Guest Additions to Centos, RHEL
