Linux Desktop Hacks

Connect to a Microsoft PPTP VPN #68

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different parts of your area or country. You can do this with a small shell script

called gpsfetchmap.pl, which is included with GpsDrive. You can use this script

to spider a number of maps between two sets of longitude and latitude points

and download all the content for use with GpsDrive. All these maps will be

downloaded from the Expedia Germany web site (http://www.expedia.de/).

To use the script, you need to pass it the latitude and longitude of the top

left corner and bottom right corner of the region you want maps for. The

top left corner is referred to as the starting latitude/longitude, and the bot-

tom right corner is the ending latitude/longitude. You should also pass the

script the scale of the map. For street-level detail, a scale of 1500 is recom-

mended. Here is an example of the command in use:

foo@bar:~$ gpsfetchmap107.pl --start-lat 52.2401 --end-lat 52.3096 --start-

lon 13.2265 --end-lon 13.3203 -sc 1500 -a 4 -p

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Connect to a Microsoft PPTP VPN Hack #68

When your place of business has chosen to protect access to its network

with a Microsoft VPN, you need a Linux way to make a secure connection.

At home you are running the “One True” operating system, but at work you

are languishing in a solid Microsoft shop. Your business is so far into the

Microsoft camp that, horror of horrors, it has chosen to protect ...