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install enchant dictionaries

I had a bit of a hard time getting enchant installed with dictionaries on Mac OS X. Here’s how to do it: sudo port install enchant # you'll need MacPorts 1.8.* for this Then download the dictionaries from the OpenOffice wiki. Next, place the files in ~/.enchant like so: $ tree .enchant/ .enchant/ `-- myspell |-- en_US.aff [...]
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fixing the disabled snapshot button in vmware fusion

I recently created a new CentOS 5 vmware image. Unfortunately the “Take Snapshot” button was disabled while the system was running. After searching around I found this post. What you need to do is open up your vmx file and comment out (disable) the following line: scsi0:0.mode = "independent-persistent" Others have also reported finding the following line in [...]
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automate installing tripwire using expect

tripwire is a handy part of an intrusion detection system. It’s a nice piece of software but the installer is interactive which makes it a pain to install automatically (e.g. when using PoolParty/EC2). Below is a simple expect script I whipped up to solve the make install problem. Hopefully this will save someone two or [...]
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