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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_
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.
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
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
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’
Inexpensive eBooks from O'Reilly Media
books
I love eBooks.  I’m not actually sure the last time I purchased a physical, paper book.  If I have recently purchased one, then it was a Computer Reference book of some type.
Create a Full Backup Image of your Amazon EC2 Instance
amazon
Update – 20160625 After assisting a reader I realized I should probably post an update to this article.  When I wrote it, Amazon AWS did not have a “Create Image” capability.  Some time ago
Automatically add PDF Files to iBooks / iTunes via Dropbox
dropbox
If you’ve just recently upgraded to iOS 4 (aka iPhone OS 4), then you are eligible to download iBooks version 1.1. Why is iBooks version 1.1 so exciting? Because it
PXE Boot your Parallels VM
Apple/Mac
[http://www.amazon.com/Parallels-Desktop-Upgrade-Windows-7/dp/B003M85RAA%3FSubscriptionId%3DAKIAIIE33VISUW746DYQ%26tag%3Dbaldusgateitempa%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB003M85RAA] The Problem If you’re in a corporate environment you probably have Windows OS
Love is in the Air - 2010
howto
The Love is in the Air World Event is now live on all servers. This year’s version of the World Event has undergone major changes and, as such, most of the guides