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I spent pretty much all of last night trying to get Snowy Lepoard's built-in Cisco IPSec VPN support to work with my shiny new Cisco RV042 router, but it turns out (as far as I can tell) that the authentication modes supported by OS X do not overlap

In anticipation of my upcoming Grand Canyon and Collegiate Range trips, I dusted off a couple XSLT books and got to work on whereiscurtis.com. (1) I modified the Perl script (which checks IMAP mailboxes for FindMeSpot locator messages) to ultimately dump out an XML file of the last ten

I ran into something unexpected, recently, related to libpq (the Postgres C API). When running PQexecParams() / PQexecPrepared() and passing a "1" for the resultFormat argument (ie, provide results in binary), a timestamp is returned as a 64-bit value (a uint64 or float, depending on a compile-time option). I

I've resurrected my Random Sentence Generator project - insofar as I've cracked open the books I bought for the project - which is the first step. I grabbed one book from the pile of sentence structure and diagramming books that I acquired some years ago, started

I'm now sporting a shiny new computer and since it doesn't come with a built-in trackpad, I need a mouse. I have a mouse, but for reasons I won't go into, I want a different mouse. My preferences are as follows: 1) laser is

As I impatiently wait for the FedEx guy to deliver my new computer, I've been reading some articles that you probably won't care about at all, but I don't want to lose them, so they're going here for safe-keeping. First, this article

Just now I was sorting through my old projects, zipping up the ones I haven't touched in forever, for archival in the dusty, dark corners of some external storage device. And I came across EnglishCounter. A while back a friend of mine was about to interview for a