The proprietary CiscoVPN Mac client is somewhat buggy. It is possible to use the IPSec VPN software included with Mac OS X instead. This tutorial shows you how to migrate from CiscoVPN to the native OS X IPSec VPN by decrypting passwords saved in CiscoVPN PCF files. 

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A few weeks ago we previewed the performance of Intel’s next-generation microprocessor architecture, codenamed Sandy Bridge. We came away impressed with our early look at performance but honestly had very little explanation for why the chip performed the way it did. For the first time in years we knew the performance of an Intel processor without knowing much about its underlying architecture.

Today, that all changes.



Sandy Bridge is Intel’s 2011 performance mainstream architecture refresh. It won’t take the place of the 6-core Gulftown based Core i7 processors at the top of the charts, but it’ll occupy the competitive space below it. The value segments won’t see Sandy Bridge until 2012.

The first CPUs will ship very early in 2011 for both desktops...

In March 2006 researchers from NASA announced that a storm is coming--the most intense solar maximum in fifty years. The prediction comes from a team led by Mausumi Dikpati of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). "The next sunspot cycle will be 30% to 50% stronger than the previous one," she says. If correct, the years ahead could produce a burst of solar activity second only to the historic Solar Max of 1958.

That was a solar maximum. The Space Age was just beginning: Sputnik was launched in Oct. 1957 and Explorer 1 (the first US satellite) in Jan. 1958. In 1958 you couldn't tell that a solar storm was underway by looking at the bars on your cell phone; cell phones didn't exist. Even so, people knew something big was happening when Northern Lights were sighted three times in Mexico. A similar maximum now would be noticed by its effect on cell phones, GPS, weather satellites and many other modern technologies.

Dikpati's prediction is unprecedented. In nearly-two centuries since the 11-year sunspot cycle was discovered, scientists have struggled to predict the size of future maxima—and failed. Solar maxima can be intense, as in 1958, or barely detectable, as in 1805, obeying no obvious pattern.

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The pole shift theory is a hypothesis that the axis of rotation of a planet has not always been at its present-day locations or that the axis will not persist there; in other words, that its physical poles had been or will be shifted. Pole shift theory is almost always discussed in the context of Earth, but other solar system bodies may have experienced axial reorientation during their existences.

Pole shift theories are not to be confused with plate tectonics, the well-accepted geological theory that the Earth's surface consists of solid plates which shift over a fluid asthenosphere; nor with continental drift, the corollary to plate tectonics which maintains that locations of the continents have moved slowly over the face of the earth, resulting in the gradual emerging and breakup of continents and oceans over hundreds of millions of years.



Pole shift theories are also not to be confused with Geomagnetic reversal, the periodic reversal of the earth's magnetic field (effectively switching...

Soos elkeen wat geskiedenis op skool gehad het weet, het 'n sluipmoord op aartsbiskop Franz Ferdinand van Sarajewo op 28 Junie 1914 direk aanleiding tot die eerste wêreldoorlog gegee. Die moord op die AWB-leier geskied op 'n besonder sensitiewe oomblik in ons geskiedenis, op die vooraand van die Wêreldsokkerbeker en moet in 'n baie ernstige lig gesien word.

Daar is enkele elemente wat hier van belang is:

Julius Malema wat praat van "verinheemsing", m.a.w. die verdrywing van blankes van plaasgrond soos in Zimbabwe Malema se huidige besoek aan Zimbabwe waar hy die steun van ZANU-PF ontvang het vir anti-blanke en anti-Afrikaner-optrede in Suid-Afrika 'n Geheime vliegveld wat volgens berigte in Britse koerante - waarskynlik gegrond op waarneming deur die Britse inligtingsdiens - in die diamantgebied Marange gebou is en waarvan die uitsluitlike doel sou wees om wapens vanaf China in te vlieg. Anders as 'n tyd gelede toe 'n skip met Chinese wapens nie in Suid-Afrikaanse hawens toegelaat...