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Steve Jobs 1955-2011

erb — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 02:15:54 +0000

How To: Cisco VPN with Snow Leopard & Lion via .pcf File

erb — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 16:23:57 +0000

UPDATE! – Now that I have Lion, I can verify that the following works with Lion as well. Snow Leopard excitedly came out-of-the-box with support for Cisco IPsec VPN which is what a lot of companies use. The problem came when I tried to connect to the VPN at work. We were using the Cisco [...]

Phusion Passenger + nginx + SSL

erb — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 04:58:08 +0000

How to get Passenger to install nginx with SSL support: 1. change to the /tmp directory cd /tmp 2. download the nginx source wget http://sysoev.ru/nginx/nginx-0.6.36.tar.gz 3. unpack it tar zxf nginx-0.6.36.tar.gz 4. install the passenger gem sudo gem install passenger 5. run the passenger nginx module install passenger-install-nginx-module 6. When asked: ‘Do you want this [...]

Uninstall GrowlMail on Leopard or Snow Leopard or Lion

erb — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:43:43 +0000

I had GrowlMail installed and after I switched to Safari4 Beta my Mail.app started bombing out complaining that the problem was GrowlMail. Whether it was or not doesn’t matter to me since I need my mail. So since looking around the web didn’t help, I decided to poke around and see if I could find [...]

The Fall of Wall Street

erb — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 20:43:00 +0000

A few weeks ago, a buddy of mine asked me to explain what exactly happened on Wall Street. Not a lot of people know that in a former life, I was a bond trader. It was only for a couple of years and to be perfectly honest, I couldn’t take it. The environment was so [...]