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Whew! I spent a looooong time today futzing around trying to get Confluence to work with SSL and mod_proxy, and after hours combing the Internet for hope, I did stumble upon a few blog comments here and there, which stitched together provided me with the pretty simple solution I was looking for. Granted, I’m [...]

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This is more of a note for myself, and for the net as the error that I keep running into is not documented all that well online. Well, at least, when I search for Error 51: Unable to communicate with the VPN subsystem most of the links that I come across say just restart [...]

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Hey blogosphere-
Just a quick update to an old article on Why Hotmail Must Die- today our mail servers at work got hit with the lovely Hammer ‘o Hotmail and all email from our domain to any Microsoft email server (hotmail.com, msn.com, MS Live, etc) is now being rejected. Not that it [...]

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Wow. Today I put a CD-Rom in my linux box, fired up QEMU running a Windows VM, within that fired up the VMWare Infrastructure Client to connect to a VM farm, started up a virtual machine and connect its virtual CD-Rom back through the VM connection, through QEMU, to my local disk, and using that, [...]

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Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more,
Or close the wall up with our English dead!
In peace there’s nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility;
But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger:
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood.
…show us here
The mettle of your pasture; [...]

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