My ISP has apparently made no progress whatsoever with IPv6, but I've got an IPv6 enabled VPS.

SSH makes it trivial to use that VPS as a SOCKS5 proxy. Just do:

ssh -D 8080 myvps.example.com

Then set your browser's SOCKS proxy to localhost:8080. In Firefox ...

"AnyConnect cannot confirm it is connected to your secure gateway. The local network may not be trustworthy. Please try another network."

There may be several reasons for this error, which you'll find on other pages that hit for a search on this string.

The reason that I encountered seems ...

I have not yet played with python 3, which sounds like it makes working with Unicode easier.

In python 2.x, working with Unicode can be annoying, but when you remember this rule of thumb, it's much easier and allows you to keep your sanity:

Always use unicode strings ...

Here are my notes about getting the Android SDK up and running using only the command line tools that come in the SDK.

The following worked for me on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS as of September 2011. I find Eclipse to be an excruciating form of torture, so I'm ...

Something I didn't know until recently:

zsh does not require cd to change directories.

Using the directory as a command implies "cd". For example, instead of doing:

me@server:/home/me $ cd /tmp
me@server:/tmp $

You can just do:

me@server:/home/me $ /tmp
me@server:/tmp $

That ...