Monthly Archives: September 2015

CheckPoint SNX install instructions for major Linux distributions

I decided to do a round up of how to install the software needed on GNU/Linux to enable access through a CheckPoint firewall. My focus was on distributions whose ISO downloads supported UEFI boot, and hard disk encryption out of … Continue reading

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Stopping mplayer from displaying Album Art on Music or Podcasts

I use mplayer as my media player of choice. If it discovers embedded album art in the media files, it will display them as a popup window. To prevent this from happening you can use the switch -vo null which will tell it … Continue reading

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Unable to access SharePoint in Firefox but it is possible in Chrome

Thanks to the the-edmeister  for giving a solution to this issue https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1007248 That type of message might be related to Insecure NTLM (pre-NTLMv2) authentication being disabled in Firefox 30. Type about:config in the URL bar and hit Enter. Accept the … Continue reading

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Can’t locate CPAN.pm in @INC

Had a strange one while installing my new work laptop. I was migrating from one system to another, so I did a clean install of Fedora 21 and copied my data over. After that I could no longer open cpan, … Continue reading

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