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Apple's preferred method of scheduling jobs is via launchd (rather than cron). One of the main benefits of using launchd is that jobs scheduled to occur while the machine was sleeping will run once it wakes up. This is different to cron where if the machine was sleeping the job…
Read MoreI was trying to configure up a new static content directory in nginx (so that I could use the letsencrypt webroot domain verification method), but kept getting 403 permission denied errors when accessing any files from the directory. Eventually tracked it down to SELinux blocking access to the new directory…
Read MoreAbout the same time my Billion ADSL modem (5+ years old) went on the blink, I was listening to the Packet Pushers Podcast: Improve your home internet performance using CoDel and figured it sounded worth experimenting with fq_codel to see how it would impact my home internet performance. The…
Read MoreSo, my old Billion adsl modem with a built in fxo port for voip went on the blink. I replaced it with a Cisco SPA112 ATA (in conjunction with a new ADSL modem which didn't have built in voip support). However, after configuring up the SPA112 with my Internode Nodephone…
Read MoreIf you use Referenced Folders in iPhoto there will probably come a time when you want to move the folders with the photos in them to another location. An example would be moving them to an external drive. There isn't a nice method for updating the locations of the referenced…
Read MoreIf you are using a Spring @PathVariable with a @RequestMapping to map the end of a request URI that contains a dot, you may end up wondering why you end up with a partial value in your variable - with the value truncated at the last dot. For example, if…
Read MoreHaving configured a working VagrantFile that could spin up a CentOS 7 image on Digital Ocean, install and configure Ghost + nginx (see cruskit/vagrant-ghost, it should have been a simple matter of adding the AWS Vagrant provider to get the image running on AWS as well... It was easy enough…
Read MoreIf you are like me, you probably don't log into your system every day and run yum update to check for updates to apply. There is an easy way to keep up to date, though, using yum-cron. yum-cron allows you to configure your system to periodically check for updates and…
Read MoreSo, you want to be able to easily stop and start Ghost & nginx on CentOS7? (at least I did when I was setting up this blog...) Centos 7 uses systemd rather than the older /etc/init.d method of managing services and daemons, so it could be a little…
Read MoreThe Vagrant AWS Provider allows you to use Vagrant to provision virtual machines in AWS. When provisioning a machine in AWS, you are able to specify whether to use Magnetic, General Purpose SSD or Provisioned IOPS SSD volumes, depending on where you want to be on the performance/cost curve.…
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