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Tag: OSX

Fixing backspace in screen in terminal on OSX

Screen is awesome, I am surprised I never bothered to learn about it earlier. It all stemmed from the fact that I was working on a pretty low powered VM and couldn’t afford to open multiple xterms on it. Later when I started SSH’ing into it the screen utility came in pretty handy, however when [...]

Enabling HTTPS support in curl installed through MacPorts on OSX

While doing development just noticed that if you have installed php with curl support using macports it does’nt install ssl support in curl by default which is quite frustrating. Especially I just spent 30mins of my life trying to debugging what had gone wrong. This is what you would get if you have a similar [...]

Cisco VPN on OSX

This has happened to me far many times, so thought I might as well document it somewhere instead of having to search for the solution. So here’s the problem, you are on VPN and then you put the laptop to sleep, you wake it up later and try to make it connect to the VPN [...]