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  1. Build Your Own Home Router

    How to use a mini PC, Linux, and some iptables rules to build a home router that rivals most retail options.

    Tutorials 19 MIN

  2. Setup a Headless Raspberry Pi with Raspbian Jessie on OS X

    To celebrate Halloween I’ve decided to put together a guide that will show you how to install Raspbian Jessie, the (as of this

    Administration 5 MIN

  3. Updating the BIOS firmware on the Supermicro X9DRW-iF

    Yesterday evening I posted a detailed tutorial that explains how to flash/update the IPMI firmware on the X9DRW-iF server from Supermicro. Today

    Administration 3 MIN

  4. Flashing the IPMI firmware on a Supermicro X9DRW-iF

    Note: Since this post was published, Supermicro released a new version of the firmware below. You'll want to replcae many of the

    Administration 5 MIN

  5. Automating Your MacOS X Deploy - Part I

    In this post, I’ll begin to demonstrate how beneficial it can be to automate some of the more tedious tasks involved with setting

    Administration 4 MIN

  6. How To Disable Java on OS X Lion to Protect from Zero-Day Bug

    A Java zero-day exploit was reported today. Here’s how to disable Java on Mac OS X Lion so that for the time

    Administration 1 MIN

  7. Fixing OpenLDAP Authentication on OS X Lion

    If you’ve upgraded to Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) from Mac OS X 10.6.x (Snow Leopard), and you’re managing

    Administration 1 MIN

  8. Setup a Django VM with Vagrant, VirtualBox, and Chef

    If you’ve decided that you want to learn the Django framework, but you don’t know where to begin, you’ve come to

    Tutorials 6 MIN

  9. Tip: Easily Find Files In The Current Directory

    If we insert the following function into our .bashrc or .zshrc we can then easily run what I call a “quick find” on the

    Linux 1 MIN

  10. Using Git and Github to Manage Your Dotfiles

    If you use OS X or Linux on your desktop/servers, you may be at a point where you have configured a lot of

    Tutorials 7 MIN

  11. Spotlight - namebench

    Almost every single time you visit a website you are using DNS. DNS serves a lot of functions, but the most frequent thing most

    Spotlight 2 MIN

  12. Fix for Ubuntu 10.04 Server USB Install

    A bunch of tricky issues arise when trying to install Ubuntu Server from a USB drive. Also, there exists a bug in the GRUB

    Administration 3 MIN