Month: February 2007

The Sorry State of VPN’ing in Linux

Wednesday February 14, 2007

Just a warning, this is a bloody rant: Novell’s Nortel VPN package comes REALLY close, but it doesn’t handle PIN/RSA SecurID yet. PLEASE get this working guys!! In fact, please hire me and pay me to get it working!!! =;) The ONLY choice you have in Linux (if you find yourself needing to connect to a Nortel VPN that uses SecurID) is to fork over $100 for Apani’s Contivity client for Linux. Oh–and, by the way, you can’t use that on SUSE 10 or any other modern distribution, since it’s still looking for gcc3 and other things that aren’t found on my SUSE 10 laptop. Although, to be fair, the Apani support guys are very quick in their e-mail replies Read more…

KDE

Konsole and Artwiz Fonts

Thursday February 1, 2007

For whatever reason, I cannot get my fonts in konsole (SUSE 10.2) to not look like crap. Before I grew attached to KDE and konsole, I used blackbox and Eterm (for like 5+years???). And Eterm did a fantastic job of using the classic (and really good) artwiz fonts like smoothansi, fkp, snap, mints, edges, anorexia. Konsole, apparently, cannot use the fonts that I’d used (and kept) for years with Eterm. So I stumbled upon this sourceforge project which has resurrected the glorious artwiz fonts and allows them to be used in KDE/GTK applications once more (including konsole). All hail Artwiz!! (where did you go, Artwiz!?!) All hail Oliwier Ptak!!!