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OpenVPN for Windows: Map network drives at connect

Create two batch files as below. They need to be in the same directory as the .ovpn OpenVPN configuration file (eg. \Users\Wtower\OpenVPN) and be named with the same name filename, but appending _up and _down.

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Setup dev environment with VSCode on Windows

This gist is intended to guide on how to setup a dev environment in Windows 7 for developers coming from a Linux background.

For Windows 10 see file win10.md below.

Install

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Ubuntu Gnome 17.04: After installation

What to after installing Ubuntu Gnome 17.04.

Wifi Gnome issue

Due to a known bug with this version of network manager, Gnome can't connect to wifi networks:

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#!/bin/bash

# install programs:
sudo apt-get install gksu gtkterm
 
# run terminal:
gksu gtkterm
 
# extract image iso:
bzip2 -d Colibri_VF_LinuxImageV2.6Beta2_20160630.tar.bz2

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Accessing a ManyToMany relationship from both ends

Based on the article Related ManyToManyField in Django admin site, the file forms.py contains a summary of the recommended code.

The file manytomany.py contains a generic base class in order to be DRY and avoid repeating the same code in many form classes.

An example of how to use can be found in the NineCMS project commit 52c710f.

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# Greeting prologue
echo "Welcome to "(uname -a | awk '{print $1 " " $2 " " $3 " " $4 " " $12}')
uptime

# ansible
. ~/workspace/ansible/ansible/hacking/env-setup.fish -q > /dev/null ^&1
set -Ux ANSIBLE_INVENTORY ~/workspace/ansible/play/hosts
echo "Now using "(ansible --version | head -n 1 | awk '{print $1 " " $2}')

# Load virtual fish