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OpenVPN and Windows
Aug 22nd
Today it was the second time i was asked by a friend to help him in fixing his openvpn on windows 7 and to tell you the truth it was exactly same problem that i had fixed before, before he had to reinstall windows that is. Being clumsy i didn’t make notes in the past on how i fixed it and wasted a lot of time after which i came to a solution. So here are some tips for people who are using OpenVPN on windows to avoid issues that i come across frequency:
- Create a shortcut icon of Open VPN GUI More >
Alternate applications for Windows User on Linux
Jan 4th
It is already known to everyone that Microsoft has the major domination on Desktop in all Domains. And if someone really like to switch from Windows to Linux (with respect to desktop user), the problem which he/she face is that “what are the substitute application on Linux which i used on Windows Platform”.
Interface Aliases: a great concept
Nov 24th
Recently i came across a scenario where we have a huge LAN of windows machines and we wanted to have some of them become unable to locate/browser/view other machine on network. There were a lot of solutions possible but i went with the interface aliases, created a new eth0:0, assigned static IP, assigned windows IP, used the IP of alias interface as proxy to browsers (as squid does run on the reserved, which in my case is a given most of the time.) and voila, everything works as required.
Linux alternate of open command in Mac/Windows
Nov 13th
i have been to mac world once when i was into iphone development (which was fun) and there i came across the “open” command which can be executed on terminal and mac opens the file in the right application for you, great, isn’t it? I came back to linux world and was missing that but never had much time to check around. The other day i found some time so here are my findings (from google, stackoverflow and etc), my conclusions: (more…)
