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Windows PPTP VPN Setup on LinuxMint 17
After poking around for too long, I finally found the solution to connecting to a standard Windows server PPTP VPN from LinuxMint 17. (from geeky.name) I’m posting here to make it easy to find again.
- Click the NetworkManager Applet
- VPN Connection -> Configure VPN -> -> Add
- Choose -> Create
- Fill out those gateway, username, password and click Advanced
- In Authentication section, CANCEL <PAP>, <CHAP>, and <EAP>, KEEP ONLY <MSCHAP> and <MSCHAPv2> SELECTED.
- In Security and Compression section, SELECT <Use Point-to-Point encryption (MPPE)>, and choose Security to be <All Available (Default)>
OK -> Accept -> Close - Now click the NetworkManager Applet
- Click VPN Connection and click the profile you just created.
- Wait for few seconds till it get connected.
- Done.
No Arc Flash PPE Required for PLC Panels
I’ve heard that PLC and I/O panels need to be designed to exclude 120V wires or circuits because of arc flash requirements. On Table 130.7(C)(15)(A)(a) of the 2015 NFPA 70E, it states as long as no exposed energized equipment over 120V exists, no Arc Flash PPE is required to work on control circuits 120V and below.
Judge Napolitano on libertarianism and Catholicism
Judge Napolitano talks about the relationship between libertarianism and Catholicism starting around the 6 minute mark:
the essence of libertarianism is the primacy of the individual over the state …and as far as it is conceivable, absolute freedom of the individual to make his or her own choices. That’s actually also the teachings of Jesus Christ: I’ve come to set you free. … The doctrine on religious freedom, the doctrine on free will is such that free will is the greatest gift God gave is. It is so perfect a gift that we are free to abuse it, and history and the modern era is filled with examples of its abuse.. So I see no inconsistency between the observation that the individual is greater than the state, and the Church’s teaching on free will at all. But I’m also not unaware of the Church’s social policy and the social policy of the church is that I am my brother’s keeper and that I should help my brother out. I accept that and I embrace it as long as I am free to accept and embrace it as long as I am not forced to do it through the mechanism of government.
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Petting Zoo : CUMC Princeton One Year Anniversary
CUMC had their one year anniversary this last weekend, and had a petting zoo as part of the celebration.
Concrete Foundation for Shop
After months of delays due to rain, and then delays caused by the delays, I finally have the foundation for the new shop poured.
These are the templates I made for the anchor bolts
70+ cubic yards of select fill moved in to make a pad Continue reading
Aiden Turns 4 Years Old
Our little one is getting old!
Trip to Johnson Space Center NASA in Houston
Here are a few pictures from our recent family trip to NASA in Houston.
Boeing 747 with the Space Shuttle piggy backed on the top. They are creating a new exhibit with this, which should be fun to see when it is complete! Continue reading
Troy Bilt Chipper Shredder Review
Since we have been thinning out the trees and brush around our house, the piles of cut limbs are getting taller and more numerous. I was planning on renting a big chipper over a weekend and taking care of it all at one time, but I decided to buy a small residential chipper for about the same price to see if I could make it work.
I found a decent one on craigslist, and after replacing the needle valve seat in the carburetor it runs well. It is a Troy Bilt Model 24A-424B766 (CS4265) with a Briggs & Stratton 6.5 HP engine model 121312-0322-E1. It is advertised to chip up to a 3″ branch. In reality, a 2″ is about all it will handle. I was able to push in long branches (10′ long) and it will eat them up with no problems. It does lag down with some pieces of wood, like the Osage orange tree branches, where are very hard and dense. Common replacement part numbers are below the video.
