Sunday, December 13, 2009
Need to connect to the University of Illinois VPN from an Ubuntu computer? Illinois supports a Microsoft PPTP VPN connection. CITES doesn’t provide detailed instructions for connecting from Ubuntu, but between CITES’ web help and the Ubuntu Wiki, you’re covered. Use the settings from CITES for your username and password: http://www.cites.illinois.edu/vpn/otherclients.html And use the Ubuntu [...]
Thursday, December 3, 2009
My sister, Illinois’ expert at finding great things for free, learned of a deal that warms my security-focused heart. Amazon.com is selling McAfee Antivirus for free ($70 with a $70 mail in rebate). Clicking this TinyUrl will take you to the product page, appropriately crediting my sister for referring you: http://tinyurl.com/FreeMcAfeeRebate
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
The problem: Your fresh install of Eclipse won’t succeed in installing any of the plugins that make it wonderful; so Eclipse is useless to you. The specific error you’re seeing is: The artifact file for osgi.bundle, org.eclipse.ant.ui,3.4.1.v20090901_r351 was not found. Rather than analyse, research, and work to fix the problem, you could just trust me [...]