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Well these last three days feels like a hard slog. Here are some of the tips for Linux geek, so hopefully you can avoid problems when you are just trying to get a regular job that will pull from a git repo and run an automated build. There are many…

Ok, for the truly nerdy, if you just want to change your pass phrase on a ssh key, here is how to do it:   ssh-keygen -p -f _your private key file_   When you are doing this, you have a chance with the switch from an MD5 (not very…

Well, a Honda Fit is an incredibly practical car. You can buy expensive accessories, but the after market is terrific: Floor mats. Rather than the factory ones, from Auto Anything, you can get custom fit nearly impervious ones for $99 less 6% off in a cilck through rebate and Retailmenot…

Uh, why did they do this, you cannot run Unifi.app in /Applications, it needs a writeable directory. So it needs to live in a writeable place like /Applications/Unifi/Unifi.app and make /Applications/Unifi writeable, but this didn’t seem to help. What did was to delete and reinstall and then it seemed to work after…

Wow, I don’t know why Amazon doesn’t advertise these things more, but I’m kind of stunned at the things you can get if you are Prime member now. You should sign up! In order. Well it isn’t 42, but it sure feels like it: Of course the obvious one is…

Gosh what a pain, last year we were building very fast Haswell systems in micro-ITX. We could get two dual slot graphics cards in there and it sounded like a freight train, but could get overclocking to 4.5GHz or so with the Noctua NH-12L which is low profile with great…

Google Apps makes this super hard mainly because: Google randomly changes their user interface, so you cannot find anything that is up to date Google has both Google Groups and Google Business Groups which are completely different do not work the same way. This is for the base Google Groups.…

Docker itself is pretty cool, but when you add remote control of multiple machines it gets really powerful. You can essentially use docker-machine to control remote cloud instances or to control virtual machines that are running locally. There is also a powerful idea called generic which means you can start…

Oh if this were easy. As explained, this is at first easy, just increase the virtual disk space. In fact with today’s large machine and the fact this is all virtual, literally going from 20GB default to 200GB seems a no brainer for most developers: Expand from VMware Fusion the…

Wow sometimes I wonder about VMware. If u install Mac OS X capitan with fusion 8 then suddenly copy and paste and hgfs (the ability to see mac file system from VMware breaks without any symptoms.  Thanks to sam who ferreted it out here is what is going on: VMware…