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Thursday, November 6, 2003

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Here is a nice report on the G5 supercluster at Virginia Tech.

Writing about moral, ethics, Linux, and Windows -- Comment()
Today in the print version of the MikroPC magazine appeared my new column titled "Friends of Linux and the Microsoft antipathy" (in Finnish, "Linuxin ystävät ja Microsoft-vastaisuus"). I gave viewpoints from IT history, and tried to write clearly about the moral and ethical positions which come into play in this controversy. I still think that this column is one of the best texts I have ever written. But who knows, perhaps nobody can understand what I tried to say.

Getting Cisco VPN 4.0.2C to work on Panther -- Comment()
It seems that you have to make a complete re-installation of the Cisco VPN client on Panther to make it work.

After the installation, I did not restart the machine. Instead, I executed in Terminal the startup script:

sudo /System/Library/StartupItems/CiscoVPN/CiscoVPN start

Before starting the client you have to copy your .pcf configuration file to /etc/CiscoSystemsVPNClient/Profiles/. After this the client seems to work properly. And the first connection starts up much faster than on Jaguar.

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How to secure your e-mail: "A little known feature in Panther's Mail.app is its ability to support certificates for signing and encrypting email. For a long time I've been a big supporter of encryption in email, but so far there's been no really good solution for it. Previous certificate based solutions sucked." [via MacSurfer]

I tried the instructions and they seem to work. Excellent!