robpickering
Leader, Mentor, Challenger, Educator, Network Engineer, System Administrator, Developer, Hacker, Writer, Diver, and Technology Explorer.
My Son has Down Syndrome
Personal
On March 25th, 2011 at 2:38 p.m. in the afternoon, during an emergency Caesarean section, my son, Robert Alan Pickering III (Trip for short) was born. The pediatrician that tended to
April Fools!  Your blog backup is incomplete.
backup
My first VaultPress [http://vaultpress.com/] backup was completed at 7:03pm, Fri, February 25. I felt safe. I had been playing with various WordPress backup solutions, including AWB [http://wordpress.org/extend/
How to become a Certified IPv6 Technician – Part Two
airport
Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6]) is the “new” Internet addressing protocol created by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Engineering_Task_
How to become a Certified IPv6 Technician - Part One
airport
Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6]) is the “new” Internet addressing protocol created by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Engineering_Task_
What I Learned about Time Machine backups from timedog
Apple/Mac
I love Time Machine [http://www.apple.com/macosx/what-is-macosx/time-machine.html]. For years and years backups were something I was supposed to do, but never found the time to do. Backups were
Goodbye Quicken Essentials 2010 for Mac, Hello iBank 4
csv
I was wrong. That’s not something anyone likes to admit, but when I’m wrong, I’m wrong, I’ll admit it. Some quick background for any readers who are experiencing my
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MySQL Database Replication over an SSH Tunnel
database
SSH Tunnel Setup Create an SSH key (Version 2) to allow passwordless replication: $ ssh-keygen -t rsa Copy the SSH key to the Master (assumes same user account on Master and Slave): $ ssh-copy-id master.
The Dirty Little Secret in Quicken Essentials...You Lose Your Data
disgruntled
A year ago I upgraded from Quicken 2007 for Macintosh to Quicken Essentials 2010 for Macintosh. I wrote about that upgrade in my article entitled Quicken Essentials for Mac – The Bare Minimum [https:
Adobe Type Units Error - How to Fix It
apple
The Problem I was recently perusing my /var/log/system.log file under OS X Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6.6), also available by running the Console application in your Utilities folder
Pilgrim's Bounty - Or Fast Cooking 1-350
WarCraft
Note: Some of the quest givers are Trainers! Learn them and use them. Note: Save everything you make, until all quests are completed. Note: For best results, empty your bags of everything, you’
macOS Hints and Tips
Apple/Mac
There are many ways to customize your macOS environment to suit your personal tastes. However, not every preference you want to change can be modified using System Preferences or Application Preferences. Often, settings
Battle of the Clouds - Rackspace Cloud vs. Amazon EC2
amazon
You can’t pick up a technical magazine, hang out on Twitter [http://twitter.com/robpickering], or read an article on a technology blog without hearing the phrase:Cloud Computing.  What is cloud
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Moving from SquareSpace to Wordpress
blogging
On July 20th, I moved my personal blog site, robpickering.com [https://robpickering.com/] from SquareSpace [http://www.squarespace.com/?associateTag=pickerin] to WordPress [http://wordpress.com].  This article is about why I
Track Spammers using Gmail
email
I hate spam [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_(electronic)].  I’m sure you hate spam.  I’ve spent a significant amount of my personal time working on solutions to combat spam.  I’

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