Ouch! This is the second time I am running into this so I’ll write it up this time.
I used libtool via automake for building a python module. Quite unhelpfully, libtool happens to build only the static library. It does that even though I passed the -module option, which should make it clear that a static [...]
I was working on replacing some mockup code for testing an internal library with python. Basically, the C code is incredibly big and I would rather mock the 3rd party API we are using in python. I wrote a generator to create wrapping code that forwards the C API calls to my python module.
Now that [...]
I am moving from my old Debian development system to a new one, changing architectures from i386 to amd64. So I need to do a fresh install, but basically I want to keep my package selection.
Conventional wisdom is to use dpkg –get-selections and dpkg –set-selections to preserve the package selection. However, this does not keep [...]
Great, I spent a few hours today to set up a nice OpenVPN server. Nice in that I wanted the (Windows) clients to be able to access the company network like they were connected locally.
My idea was to use the OpenVPN tap mode and let the DHCP server at work assign IPs to the VPN [...]