Monthly Archives: August 2009

Checking options with optparse callbacks

optparse is a flexible and powerful module for processing command line options in Python programs. I’ve used it for a while, but I didn’t have much occasion to get into callbacks until recently. A callback here is a user-defined function … Continue reading

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Using a Juniper SSL VPN on Ubuntu

Juniper’s SSL-based VPNs are wonderfully easy to use. Windows and OS X users simply sign into the VPN website, click Connect, install the Java-based app (if it’s the first time) and are good to go. On the Linux side, it … Continue reading

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