Deleting non-empty folders from Mac Terminal

If you try to delete a non-empty folder from Terminal on your Mac with

rmdir folder-name

you will get the following error:

rmdir: folder-name: Directory not empty.

The command you want to use is:

rm -r folder-name

Cisco VPN Error 51: Unable to communicate with the VPN subsystem

This error plagues me around every three weeks when I open up my Cisco VPN client on my Mac. The fix for this is straight-forward:

  1. Quit CiscoVPN,
  2. Open Terminal (Applications > Utilities > Terminal), and
  3. Type in the following command:
sudo /System/Library/StartupItems/CiscoVPN/CiscoVPN restart

Type in your password when it asks you for it, and Terminal should restart CiscoVPN, at which point the error should go away.

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!

Wishing you a very happy new year!

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Wordpress Theme: Didactic

Didactic Template Screenshot

Sreejith R. of GFXedit was nice enough to port my Didactic template over to Wordpress. Thanks Sreejith! Go take a look!

Captionated: Or Why 456 Berea Street is Bad For Your Health

Using JavaScript to add captions to all or some of your images. The JavaScript is unobstrusive so that you miss nothing other than the caption if the user's browser has JavaScript turned off.

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Commercial Template: Six-Oh-Six

Commercial Template Six Oh Six Screenshot

Here it is! My first commercial template! :-) It costs $50.00. Until I can get PayPal working with my template, e-mail me if you want the template. :-)

One Penny Wordpress Theme

One Penny Wordpress Theme Preview

ThemePorter contacted me recently regarding porting my templates over to Wordpress. OnePenny is now available. :-)

Whew!

After a marathon coding session, I finally have the new design online. I'm rather pleased with the design at the moment, and, hopefully, I'll remain just as pleased with in the coming months. You might have noticed ( if you didn't, notice it now ) the urls. I managed to get rid of the index.php in an extremely hackish way, but then, I tend to be anal-retentive about these kind of things. Also, the urls don't include subdomains anymore. While it seemed like a good idea back when it started, it started grating on my nerves the last couple of days. Undoubtedly, this is going to cause broken links and what-not, but hopefully everything will be back to normal in a couple of weeks.

There are a couple of things left to do still — namely, the contact form and the search results page...

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