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Tech — by Reed O'Brien — last modified Apr 09, 2012 09:35 AM

hints, tips, tricks and memory aids for the slipping mind

Create VirtualBox Clone With Its Own MAC Address — by Chris Shenton — last modified Feb 24, 2012 04:39 PM

Unique MAC required to prevent conflict, but resulting clone won't have any interface; how to fix on Ubuntu

Use openconnect VPN on OS X instead of Cisco AnyConnect — by Chris Shenton — last modified Nov 17, 2011 12:27 PM

AnyConnect requires registration and a support contract, but we can use open source software instead.

Host Plone site a level down with Apache and VirtualHostMonster — by Chris Shenton — last modified Oct 28, 2011 10:56 AM

We had to use some _vh_* magic to get rewrites to work properly.

Ubuntu-11.04 on Dell T-105 with RAID: video and grub problems — by Chris Shenton — last modified Nov 22, 2012 09:20 AM

At install time, the video blanked. After RAID setup, Grub didn't install.

CrashPlan on Headless Server — by Chris Shenton — last modified Sep 04, 2011 09:45 AM

Use client on MacOS over ssh tunnel to headless server.

Build MongoDB on FreeBSD -- for Jenkins use — by Chris Shenton — last modified Aug 19, 2011 05:42 PM

We use Jenkins to automate build and test; many of our projects use MongoDB, so we need a download tarball for it as 10gen doesn't offer a pre-built image.

Flymake Mode for Emacs/JavaScript V8 edition — by Reed O'Brien — last modified Dec 07, 2011 02:45 PM

V8 powered jslint or jshint with Flymake in Aquamacs Emacs

Android TimeTracker data extraction — by Chris Shenton — last modified Jun 08, 2011 02:03 PM

How to generate a report from the database managed by TimeTracker for Android by ABS

Jenkins CI (PDF) — by Chris Shenton — last modified May 14, 2011 02:49 PM

Jenkins CI (keynote) — by Chris Shenton — last modified May 14, 2011 02:48 PM

Apple Keynote format

Jenkins — by Chris Shenton — last modified May 14, 2011 02:49 PM

"Continuous Integration with Jenkins" presentation for AgileTechDC 2011

Restore disk from Crashplan (on OS X) — by Chris Shenton — last modified Mar 29, 2011 05:23 PM

Crashplan saved our bacon but took a while to find the files -- ownership and location important.

Compile Python-2.7 on FreeBSD — by Chris Shenton — last modified Mar 24, 2011 10:53 AM

Need to patch in order to fix problem with ${LDFLAGS}. Don't use --enable-shared.

Emacs hangs on Flymake under OS X — by Chris Shenton — last modified Mar 16, 2011 02:47 PM

Popup dialogs considered harmful.

TAL Order of Execution — by Reed O'Brien — last modified Feb 13, 2011 02:43 AM

A TAL memory aid for something I can never remember or find when I want to.

Plone on Slicehost — by Reed O'Brien — last modified Feb 01, 2011 01:05 PM

How to setup plone on slicehost

Perform Containment test on arrays in Javascript — by Reed O'Brien — last modified Dec 19, 2010 02:05 AM

A prototype for performing containment tests in Javascript; the moral equivalent of __contains__ for sequences.

Trac: simple HTML and CSS modifications — by Chris Shenton — last modified Nov 05, 2010 11:20 AM

Enabling and locating files isn't obvious: HTML and CSS/Image files live in different directories.

Building Python-2.7 on FreeBSD — by Chris Shenton — last modified Oct 27, 2010 11:43 AM

Building Plone failed because it couldn't find libraries, tweak build_ext.py to fix.