WordPress update monitoring
If you’re reading this, you know I rarely visit my blogs. That presents a problem, as I never get the nag from WordPress that my version is so out of date, my site has been taken over by Russian Yakuza...
View ArticleHow to fix a broken Time Machine
Kid’s Mac’s TimeMachine backups were broken. “Time Machine completed a verification of your backups. To improve reliability, Time Machine must create a new backup for you.” Rather than starting from...
View ArticleNumber of the Week: PCs Make Americans $500 Billion Richer – Real Time...
The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta did an analysis of how much annual benefit the average american get from their PC. $1700. $1,700: The annual benefit the average American derives from personal...
View ArticleRecovering deleted files on an iPad
So I come home yesterday to a very, very dejected child. Apparently she somehow deleted all the slides for a school project due when she gets back from vacation. First off – iOS doesn’t have .Trash....
View ArticleQuick Hack to allow any folder to be a TimeMachine Destination
Apple doesn’t let you use a shared folder as a time machine destination in regular OSX (you can buy server and get that functionality), only a full volume or Time Capsule. But you can use this command...
View ArticleChef on a Raspberry Pi
So OpsCode (or now GetChef) doesn’t have an omnibus installer for the ARM/Raspberry Pi, but it’s pretty easy to get it setup. Start with the base default Raspbian (wheezy) and get it where you can ssh....
View ArticleThe Rumors of my demise….
… are not that exaggerated. I have a three year old, I have a job that discourages political blogging. I’m not doing that much that is interesting. Except that I am doing cool shit at work and I should...
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GitHub
I’ve created an account on github. You can find my work (and mock me for it) here: https://github.com/jchrisfarris/ via XKCD
View ArticleAWS New Account Config
We’re getting ready to deploy our first production workload in AWS, and our AWS account team recommended we enable a bunch of auditing on our accounts in each region. That is a lot of clicking for 9...
View ArticleAWS API Keys in OSX Keychain
AWS API Keys are powerful things that you don’t want to leave lying around. Amazon’s suggestion is to keep them in ~/.aws/config. I’m not a fan of that. OSX has KeyChain, which is a secure repository...
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