This started with a ticket to troubleshoot an SSL certificate on a nagios server in a remote datacenter. CHECK_NRPE: ERROR – COULD NOT COMPLETE SSL HANDSHAKE I checked the certifficate. It seemed correct and not expired as yet. I went to the nagios services configuration and found the command that was failing….
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DodoCASE revisited – truly 5 stars.
I recently got the iPad 2 16 GB wifi only. The least expensive iPad tablet. I recalled that when the first iPad came out there was a bamboo moleskine-like case touted. I filed it in the back of my mind to come back to. Reading a Wired article about funding startups, I came across…
Continue ReadingDeleting a wireless password that is saved (OSX)
An across-the-board password change wreaks havoc with cached wireless passwords. I had no issue with a stock Macbook Air – I deleted the wireless network and then reconnected to the private locked network entering a username and password. My company Macbook wouldn't show or allow me to delete the network and therefore I couldn't delete…
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I have a MacBook Air with a 64GB SSD. Quick, light, powerful, a really nice little unit. But – tight on space. I was recently upgrading to Mountain Lion and I went through to free up space – I was down to 10 GB free, and I felt that was tight. I deleted as much…
Continue ReadingPairing a Magic Trackpad…
…is not easy. I had issues pairing it with my 15″ Macbook Pro. I searched on the web and found one article that said a reboot would resolve this, and it did for that first pairing. I found I later wanted to pair that same trackpad with an 11″ Macbook Air – I went ot…
Continue ReadingiPhone backup, local not iCloud
I deleted my MobileMe account within "Mail, Contacts, Calendars" in setting on my iPhone 4. A couple of hours later I got a call from a number in Waltham, MA. It was my wife. I wondered where she was that she was using a landline or borrowing a cell phone, because the number showed up,…
Continue Readingshutdown in the middle of Windows 7 setup
I have a brand new Lenovo laptop (one that boots this time). I want to sell it, as pristine as possible, with the windows setup intact, ready to boot for its new owner. I could leave it in the box and ship it out – but… The last Lenovo laptop (this one is a replacement)…
Continue ReadingMoinMoin to text perl script
I had a wiki in MoinMoin for sys admin notes and scraps of code and solutions – all the stuff you accumulate to try and not have to solve the same problem over and over from scratch. Moin Moin was flat directory structure coded in python. It’s elegant – but the search function started blowing…
Continue ReadingHow NOT to buy a laptop
I have a 10.1" Dell Netbook that I love – except… Except that it has an Atom processor and even with an upgrade to 2GB RAM, every once in a while it just chugs, spinning and processing for minutes, unable to respond at all. It has a 600 x 1028 screen – it turns out,…
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I am required to connect to a VPN, even internally. This means that using linux at work requires getting that VPN session to complete, on any version of linux I am going to productively use. I have used Crunchbang for the last four months, primarily because it connected to our Juniper VPN right out…
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