In managing Unix systems, you will often have occasion to have a process or
action performed at boot time.
There are several ways of accomplishing this goal, but the right way is to
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WordPress is one of the most popular blogging platforms on the Internet. One of
the first things I do when I setup a new WordPress installation is harden it.
You can read about
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iCloud debuted Tuesday for all iOS 5.0 devices. On Friday, the iPhone 4S was
released. You’d think that would be a banner week for us. However, there is
disharmony afoot in
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> Here's to the crazy ones.
The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers.
The round pegs in the square holes.
The ones who see things differently.
They're not fond of
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WordPress [http://wordpress.org] is an extremely popular web platform with about
7% of all websites
[http://wpcandy.com/presents/a-look-at-wordpress-market-share-numbers] running
WordPress. That large a population means that attackers have a rich
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This article is about the NOOK Color and how to convert it from a stock device,
make modifications to enable additional features, and finally convert it into a
full-blown Android tablet (running either
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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
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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/
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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_
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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_
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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
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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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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.
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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:
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