Want something equivalent to the Linux Tail command but for Windows? Use...
If you’re like me and you write a lot of scripts that take anywhere from 15 minutes to 50 minutes to complete an install, sometimes it’s nice to be able to see the log file generated as the...
View ArticleNest Thermostat and Offline Mode Intermittently?
If you’re like me and use a Nest Thermostat Gen2 at home and have been having Offline mode or insufficient power issues for the past several months, you’ll be quite interested in this post. First, I...
View ArticleSetting up XUbuntu 14.4 and run into display problems?
I’ve been trying to immerse myself into the Linux world quite a bit more lately and in doing so I accidentally broke my XUbuntu display settings. First, an understating of my environment — I am running...
View ArticleHow to: Setup a Nest Thermosat stats web server on Linux
A few months back, my AC died. Through a series of unfortunate events, I realized my once comfortable house had become a bonafide sauna. I noticed my PG&E bill had increased dramatically and my...
View ArticleHow to setup: Nest Bootstrap Control Panel
If you haven’t yet read the parent post for this how to, please do so first by following this link. The instructions from the Nest Bootstrap Control Panel Git Hub repo are pretty good, but there are a...
View ArticleWindows 10 Update Error 0x80244019
I have Windows 10 Insider Preview installed on two of my PCs and I couldn’t figure out why I received a Windows Update error (0x80244019) every time I tried to run Windows Update after RTM and GoLive....
View ArticleWordPress and Password Protected Directories
Recently, I found myself working on a project where password protecting subdirectories with .htaccess and .htpasswd was needed, despite the insecure nature of such an implementation. After I added...
View ArticleLinux: SSH Remote host identification has changed
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View ArticleRECAP: SVCC (Silicon Valley Code Camp) – How to setup a Linux Web Server and...
For those of you who couldn’t make it out to my session at this year’s Silicon Valley Code Camp, I have uploaded my deck and notes to this post. Alternatively, if you did make it out my session and...
View ArticleRECAP: PacITPros – How to setup a Linux Web Server and use it to monitor your...
For those of you who attended (and those who were unable to) the PacITPros meeting at the new Microsoft office in San Francisco, I have uploaded the deck used, as well as the command notes txt file, to...
View ArticleLinux: SSH Remote host identification has changed
If you encountered the ever so terrifying following error, this post will quickly address how to correct it. @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ @ WARNING: REMOTE HOST...
View ArticleRECAP: SVCC (Silicon Valley Code Camp) – How to setup a Linux Web Server and...
For those of you who couldn’t make it out to my session at this year’s Silicon Valley Code Camp, I have uploaded my deck and notes to this post. Alternatively, if you did make it out my session and...
View ArticleRECAP: PacITPros – How to setup a Linux Web Server and use it to monitor your...
For those of you who attended (and those who were unable to) the PacITPros meeting at the new Microsoft office in San Francisco, I have uploaded the deck used, as well as the command notes txt file, to...
View ArticleUsing Word 2016 for Mac and can’t see top margins?
I’ve been using Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac for quite awhile now and I finally had time to figure out why I couldn’t see the top margins of my Word documents. The solution is surprisingly easy –...
View ArticleBash on Windows!
As you probably know, Bash is coming to Windows 10. If you are in the Insider Preview program, you can play with it today! Build 14316 was released to Insider users in the Fast Ring, which was...
View ArticleWindows 10, VMware ESXi, and missing VMDK File?
I have a Windows 10 virtual machine hosted on a VMWare ESXi 5.5 server at home. I use it for simple things like a Plex media server, Calibre book server, and I run a Python script from GitHub...
View ArticleMicrosoft Azure and WordPress – Bitnami Cost Comparison and Option Break Down
I recently decided to migrate my previously self-hosted blog from one 3rd party solution to Microsoft Azure. I’ve performed WordPress migrations before, but surprisingly, never to Azure. Since...
View ArticleMicrosoft Azure: How to get started with Bitnami and WordPress
I thought I would write a quick how-to for getting started quickly with Bitnami and WordPress in less than 5 minutes from within Microsoft Azure. First, sign into the the new portal at...
View ArticleHow to: Clone a Linux Azure VM
In this post we are going to cover how to clone a Linux VM using the Microsoft Azure ARM portal and Azure CLI. In the next post we will use the JSON template and VHD we capture from today’s post to...
View ArticleMicrosoft Azure: How to change a repository in a Linux Ubuntu VM
If you have a particular repository you want to use for your Linux VM from within Azure to install packages from, simply follow the below instructions. For our example, we will update the repository...
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