Next time one of your application or websites goes wrong and the users shout at you, take comfort in the knowledge that even Google sometimes Get It Wrong…
Every site has 'may harm your computer' next to it, including Google itself. Nice.
(retrieved at 14:44 GMT on Saturday 31 January 2009)
Edit: As Michael points out in the comments, Oxford users can avoid the mess below by simply disabling hybrid mode.
So there I am, firing up the Advent to read my email between lectures when…
$ sudo vpn-connect oxford
vpnc-connect was built without openssl: Can't do hybrid or cert mode.
Gah? The VPN client has always worked in the past, but following the upgrade to Ubuntu Intrepid, it doesn’t. A quick search lead to a solution which can be summarised as:
$ cd /tmp
$ apt-get source vpnc
$ cd vpnc-0.5.1r275
$ $EDITOR Makefile
Uncomment the lines beginning with OPENSSL
Read this and despair for the future of open source software
$ sudo apt-get build-dep vpnc
$ dpkg-buildpkg
Wonder why it all collapses in a heap
Search and find this.
$ apt-get install libssl-dev
$ dpkg-buildpkg
$ cd ..
$ sudo dpkg -i vpnc_0.5.1r275-1ubuntu1_i386.deb
Wonder why this has changed between Hardy and Intrepid
Seriously consider going back to Windows on this machine.
Sigh.