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Tuesday Tip: rsync Command to Include Only Specific Files

I find myself using rsync a lot, both for moving data around, for creating backups using rsnapshot (yes, even on Windows!) and for mirroring public Open Source projects and repositories. I used to create all sorts of filters and scripts to make sure I was getting only the files I wanted and needed, but I […]

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  2. Using fdupes to Solve the Data Duplication Problem: I’ve got some dupes! Well, 11.6 hours later after scanning the NAS with fdupes,...
  3. Updating Legacy Fedora Linux Distributions to Use Archive Repositories I run a VMware ESXi server here that hosts ~500...

Syndicated 2015-01-06 19:35:18 from random neuron misfires

HOWTO: Run boot2docker in VMware Fusion and ESXi with Shipyard to Manage Your Containers

This took me awhile to piece together, and I had to go direct to the maintainers of several of these components to get clarity on why some things worked, while others did not, even following the explicit instructions. Here, I present the 100% working HOWTO: I started with a post I found written by someone […]

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  2. HOWTO: Properly install native VMware Tools in pfSense 2.0.3 (FreeBSD 8.1) If you’re anything like me, you take security seriously. With...
  3. AT&T Locks Horns with Hurricane Sandy and my data-only MiFi We were hit pretty hard by Hurricane Sandy out here...

Syndicated 2015-01-03 06:10:11 from random neuron misfires

SOLVED: Installing VMware Tools in Ubuntu 5.04 under ESXi

It may seem odd, that it’s almost 2015, and I’m writing a post describing how to install VMware Tools inside Ubuntu 5.04, a Linux distribution that was released on April 8th, 2005 and went End of Life on October 31, 2006. I run a home lab here with a number of test machines (all VMs […]

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  3. SOLVED: VMware Tools create_proc_entry Error with vmballoon_procfs_init on Linux Kernel 3.11.0 Another quick VMware Tools patch and fix if you’re using...

Syndicated 2014-12-27 03:20:56 from random neuron misfires

HOWTO: Remove the “Year in Review” Posts from your Facebook Wall

It’s annoying. It’s Facebook. We all learn to either love or hate it, but there are ways to make the annoying parts of it go away. The most-recent annoyance is Facebook’s compulsion to add the “Year in Review” posts from people to your Facebook wall. Thankfully I’ve never been asked to fill mine out, but […]

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  3. Facebook Does It Again, Silently Sending GPS Coordinates with Every Message Yes, they’ve done it again. The most-recent update of the...

Syndicated 2014-12-26 13:51:30 from random neuron misfires

Quick tip for Users Hosting TurnKey Linux Images for Public Consumption

I host lots of internal infrastructure for friends, colleagues, the Open Source community, my LUG and others and much of the recent need I’ve seen has been with easy-to-contain images like those provided by the TurnKey Linux project. These are very small, light, lean VMs and app containers you can deploy on your servers, baremetal, […]

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Syndicated 2014-12-26 03:48:02 from random neuron misfires

HOWTO: Quick 7-Zip Trick to Encrypt Your Files with Non-Interactive Mode

I have a lot of data that I archive away on a regular basis, both on my “PC” machines and my mobile devices OTA. I needed a secure, reproducible way to secure those data with a very strong, complex password using extremely tight compression. Unfortunately, p7zip on Linux and 7-Zip for Windows don’t permit a […]

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  3. HOWTO: Configure XChat Azure on OS X to connect to Freenode using SASL + Tor With all the recent news about the NSA, Prism Surveillance...

Syndicated 2014-12-13 20:59:55 from random neuron misfires

Disable Login User List in Ubuntu 14.04, Trusty Tahr

The latest and greatest Ubuntu 14.04 is out, with a mountain of new features: “Ubuntu Linux version 14.04 LTS (code named “Trusty Tahr”) has been released and available for download. This updated version includes the Linux kernel v3.13.0-24.46, Python 3.4, Xen 4.4, Libreoffice 4.2.3, MySQL 5.6/MariaDB 5.5, Apache 2.4, PHP 5.5, improvements to AppArmor allow […]

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Syndicated 2014-04-25 00:30:29 from random neuron misfires

Disable Login User List in Ubuntu 14.04, Trusty Tahr

The latest and greatest Ubuntu 14.04 is out, with a mountain of new features: “Ubuntu Linux version 14.04 LTS (code named “Trusty Tahr”) has been released and available for download. This updated version includes the Linux kernel v3.13.0-24.46, Python 3.4, Xen 4.4, Libreoffice 4.2.3, MySQL 5.6/MariaDB 5.5, Apache 2.4, PHP 5.5, improvements to AppArmor allow […]

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  3. SOLVED: Remove annoying duplicate users in your WordPress blog This happens quite a bit, and I’m surprised the default...

Syndicated 2014-04-21 05:59:16 from random neuron misfires

Updating Legacy Fedora Linux Distributions to Use Archive Repositories

I run a VMware ESXi server here that hosts ~500 separate VMs, clones, templates and test builds of operating systems for testing, development, personal playground and other roles. Some of these VMs are older Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian and various other Linux distributions. Since those distributions are no longer active, maintained by the community, the update […]

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Syndicated 2013-11-24 20:43:33 from random neuron misfires

SOLVED: Fixing Perl Plug-ins for XChat Azure in OS X Mavericks 10.9

I’m a heavy user of IRC and have been since the late 90′s. I use X-Chat for IRC on almost all machines, including Mac and Windows, not just the Linux environment that it was created upon. When I recently upgraded my OS X Lion (10.7.5) machine to OS X Mavericks (10.9), I started seeing a […]

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Syndicated 2013-11-05 21:50:37 from random neuron misfires

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