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In bash, aliases cannot contain parameters. You have to create a function instead.

Setting up a handheld device to sync with ActiveSync via Bluetooth is not the most intuitive process. My guess is that its because Bluetooth support was tacked on as an afterthought with Windows XP SP2. Here’s the basic idea.

1. Ensure the Bluetooth device is discoverable. This varies depending on the device.
2. In the Control Panel click on the Bluetooth Devices panel and click the Add button under the Devices tab. Use the wizard to pair with the discovered device.
3. Under the COM ports tab create an Incoming port that will be associated with Bluetooth.
4. Launch ActiveSync and under Tools > Connection Settings ensure that the COM port you associated with Bluetooth is set under “Allow serial cable or infrared connection for this COM port”.

Over the past few months I’ve been taking courses for Apple Certifications offered via OIT. To get me through each test I amassed a collection of question and answer flash cards fed to me via a program called Genius. The program had been recommended by Donna Sanclemente. The card questions were drawn from class notes, chapter content, review questions and classroom exercises. Within each set of cards I rated a given question as to perceived importance. I ran through each question for the Mac OS X Support Essentials v10.4 and Mac OS X Server Essentials v10.4 at least 5 times with the counter resetting each time a question was deemed incorrect. I scored a 95% and 73% respectively. After my poor showing on the Server exam I made sure to run through each question 8-9 times in the same manner for Directory Services Integration and Administration v10.4 and scored a 95%, I’d like to believe, as a result.

Although these cards were never meant for public consumption, today I decided to offer up the cards for the Server and Directory Services exams to those still needing to take either test. With no warranty as to their validity or usefulness, my hope is that someone will find the cards useful to their workflow and study habits. I’ve made them available in Genius and tab-delimited formats, Genius format simply being an XML file. Developing or discovering alternative interfaces for cross-platform use is encouraged as Genius is a Mac-only application.

This material is derived from the sources mentioned above but is in no way meant to be a verbatim copy or representation of the original material. This constitutes a personal sudy aid as it is distributed and should be accompanied by a copy of the Creative Commons License v1.0. At no time did the creation or development of this work take place during University operating hours unless as part of course notes. In the true spirit of community, I’d also encourage those that do proceed to edit this material to send a copy back to me that I might update my own copy:)

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You can use an SSH connection as a SOCKS proxy for web and other network traffic. Simply use -D [portnumber] option and set up your applications to use the local port as a SOCKS proxy. All of your traffic requests will be made from the SSH host. This is particularly useful when you are not sure if you are using a secure network.

I always miss this dependency for an install of TSM. Until IBM updates their client software, these older libraries are required. If you try to install the client without this RPM on newer Linux distributions you will get a dependency error that doesn’t tell you the precise package it is looking for. This is the name of the one you want:

compat-libstdc++-296