Update 2009/10/29 11:18—Updated the path on the final setuid command per commenter David.

If you use a Mac as your work machine, chances are that you’ve had to use VPN at some point, and therefore the current de facto SSL VPN client, Juniper Network Connect. If you’ve recently upgraded to Snow Leopard, you’ve probably already run into the problem of NC not working correctly, and likely found the common solution to fixing the problem.

This solution works great if you’ve got a fully functional installation of NC, but what happens if your installation has become corrupted on Snow Leopard? What if, for example, some of the installation files are corrupted or missing, but some aren’t? That’s what happened to me, and here’s how I fixed it.

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So I went to Safeway during halftime today to get a sandwich for lunch, and imagine my dismay when I find out that they’ve taken my favorite sandwich, the Hail Caesar, off the menu. I don’t get it. Why? Why would you take clearly the best sandwich on the menu off the menu? I feel betrayed.

Charles Arthur is an idiot—he appears to be telling people that it’s perfectly all right to violate Apple’s EULA by upgrading straight from Tiger to Snow Leopard and still only paying the $29 upgrade-from-Leopard price, and that since you can get away with purchasing just one copy of the OS and installing it on multiple computers, that you should. No, what surprises me is that this piece of “journalism” apparently got past his editor and got published on the Guardian‘s website. Last I heard, editors are supposed to pay attention to pesky things like laws, or barring that, ethics.

No, I take that back. Maybe he’s not dumb. Maybe he’s just a charlatan. Jesus. (hat tip: George)