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Cisco VPN – Error 51

All weekend I have been having trouble connecting to my work’s VPN on OS X 10.5 (Leopard). My favourite VPN client, Shimo, doesn’t even want to try, and the Cisco VPN client gives me this error:

Cisco VPN - Fix for Error 51: Unable to communicate with the VPN subsystem

All it is, is the Cisco VPN service needing a restart. Open a terminal and type:

$ sudo /System/Library/StartupItems/CiscoVPN/CiscoVPN restart

Make Apple Mail display plain text

Some of us prefer our mail clients to display mails in plain text. Here’s how to set it.  Open ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist, click on the Root key, click “Add Item.”  Call it ‘PreferPlainText’ and set the type to boolean.  This gives you a checkbox to enable or disable it.

You can also do it via the terminal:

defaults write com.apple.mail PreferPlainText -bool TRUE

Or to disable:

defaults write com.apple.mail PreferPlainText -bool FALSE