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Earlier this week I stopped for a red light on Park Avenue. Like most mornings, it was a school of yellow taxis and me, and a few other hardy bikers. Temperatures were in the 20’s and I was sporting a functional but perhaps hilarious look. I snapped this after fumbling my camera out and raising even more questions in the minds of those cabbies. Ninja alien tourist? Psychotic bike commuter? Both, probably.
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Try using the latest SLF4J version. I upped to 1.5.10 and it resolved it. For more details, see Adam’s post in this thread: https://forum.hibernate.org/viewtopic.php?p=2400801
Not sure if my Latin is correct, but my meaning was to seize the coldest day.
I just got into the office after a fantastic but normal morning commute. My bike is leaning against the wall by the window, and I’ll feeling way too warm under all the layers I’m wearing. Hard to believe I’m overdressed for temps in the 20’s and cold winds.
Riding through Central Park on the way here I was thinking that there’s a special pleasure in seizing something wonderful that other people don’t seem to see. All those people on the subway, packed in and unhappy (you can see it on their faces and read it in their bodies) — I know they can’t all hop on a bike and ride to work, but some of them could. And if they did, wouldn’t they find the same glorious parkway, almost empty except for a few hardy runners and the very occasional cyclist? The trees are leafless, bare and structural. The sky is available, cold but embracing. The buildings are at the periphery, a reminder but distant enough. I can’t say the air is much sweeter, but there’s certainly less diesel in it.
And each day, I get the warm, fluid feeling of using my body to move me around. Sitting at my desk is a rest between the rides. I’m about to run for the Y around the corner and try to slip in a fast swim before I shower and dress in more office-appropriate clothes. But I have to say to anyone reading this: it’s available to you, in some form. Right now. It turns out that “freezing” cold weather really isn’t so cold with a little bit of clothing and your body making its own heat.
I’m grateful every day I ride for many things, including the wise friends who urged me on or supported me in crossing over the line from seeing it as crazy to realizing that everyone else is just missing it. Think I’m crazy for riding my bike to work in mid-January? Then you need to try it out and discover what’s out there that is vibrantly alive and rewarding.
Each time I encounter another cyclist (in this weather especially) I say hello or good morning and see if they’re up for a little conversation and commuter-shop-talk. This morning I met two and had great little human exchanges of a kind that you don’t get on a subway. Camaraderie in the cold helps, but they both had the same light in their faces that I knew was shining out of mine: we were out in it, seizing it and loving it, and all the people bundled up against the cold and stepping down off the curbs could barely see us go by.
I’m going to get a mounted camera so I can start posting some images from these rides and capture the changing seasons of the city.
To the water!
Install the two packages (a separate one for the StartupItem) and copy the prefs pane to /Library/PreferencePanes/.
The MySQL prefs panel had an annoying dialog about having to reopen, etc. So I found this rebuilt version from the good folks at Swoon that works just fine.
Love this: save your script anywhere you want as an Application (I’ve started using a Scripts folder under my home directory). Drag the icon up into the Finder toolbar area and it’s available everywhere. I got this from a wonderful script for launching iTerm and changing to the current directory in it here. So you can be looking at a Finder window and with one click have an open iTerm tab pointing to it. Nice.
This is one of those posts you do in the hope that it will save someone else from the pain you’ve gone through. If you don’t know what Checkpoint VPN-1 is, or SecureClient, don’t bother reading this.
But if you’ve got a Mac, and you need to get through to (and past) a Checkpoint VPN gateway, then here’s what finally worked for me, in brief:
At that point, my life began getting much better. Back at home, I have a Linksys WRT160N router, which seemed to have all the good VPN protcols already enabled for passthrough. But no luck connecting with SecureClient. So I found this very helpful tip, and followed the advice to force UDP encapsulation. And now I finally have working VPN from the office and from home.
Whew.