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How To’s and other guides.

How to Setup a L2TP VPN Server on OS X

Posted on November 13, 2013July 5, 2016 by Jon Stacey

This is a fast guide on configuring OS X to act as an L2TP VPN Server. This can be accomplished with Apple’s Server App, but if you don’t mind running a few Terminal commands and adding a couple configuration files manually, you can save yourself $20 and go out to eat instead. This guide also…

The Long Road to IPv6

Posted on June 2, 2012June 2, 2012 by Jon Stacey

IPV6 launch day is just around the corner. Less than four days to go at the time of this posting. I couldn’t think of a reason why I should be left out of all the fun, so I took the plunge and configured my server (Bamboo) to serve up this site from both IPv4 and…

Mac OS X Filenames with Apostrophe’s and Ruby 1.9 Unicode Support

Posted on November 12, 2011November 12, 2011 by Jon Stacey

Ruby 1.9’s m17n (multilingualization) engine has eased some of the pains of supporting different encodings. Unfortunately, it makes things a little more difficult in the simplest of cases. I was introduced to this problem for the first time with the error message `invalid multibyte char (US-ASCII)`. This is a mini crash course for understanding the…

Solution to Microsoft Flight Simulator X “side-by-side” Error

Posted on November 8, 2011July 5, 2016 by Jon Stacey

This is a mini-guide for those struggling with trying to get Microsoft Flight Simulator X (FSX) Deluxe, and the Acceleration Expansion pack working on Windows 7 x64. The two big issues which I will cover are the “side-by-side” configuration error message, and frequent crashing while in the game.

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