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.
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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 writing) most current version of the Debian operating system for the Raspberry Pi. The biggest difference between this guide and the hundreds if not thousands of
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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 I’m going to explain how to flash the BIOS on the same hardware. If you’re not familiar with what a BIOS firmware flash is,
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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 commands in this post with the new firmware file name. It's available for download at: https://www.supermicro.com/en/support/resources/downloadcenter/firmware/
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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 up a new install of MacOS X Lion (10.7) or Mountain Lion (10.8). In this early post we’ll focus on getting our machine
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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 being, you won’t accidentally run any applets that could compromise the security of your system(s). A command to reverse your changes is also included
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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 a network that uses OpenLDAP for authentication, you may have found that you can no longer authenticate using OpenLDAP from Mac OS X Lion. Today I’
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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 the right place. In this guide we’ll be walking step-by-step through the setup of a Django development VM. By the time we’re
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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 current working directory. # qfind - used to quickly find files that contain a string in a directory qfind () { find . -exec grep -l $1 {} \; return 0 } Now, when
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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 your own settings, configurations, or themes within dotfiles. For the uninformed, dotfiles are files in your home directory that begin with a dot, or full-stop
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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 depend on it for is translation of the domain name you type into your browser (such as www.google.com) to an associated IP address, which
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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 installer that threatens to muck things up once you work through the issue of even getting Ubuntu Server installed. Today I’ll be describing how to
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