Hashicorp packer + winRM (windows AMIs)

I’m dealing with developers who work in windows and deploy to IIS. I haven’t built windows Amazon Machine Images before, so there were a couple of things to make work in packer. The first is a user data script passed over to enable and configure winRM at boot. The second was opening up the security…

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eclipsed

      I’ve been working with Remote System Explorer (RSE), a terminal and ssh session manager that runs in the Eclipse SDK. This is very cool – the thing is, eclipse runs on Solaris, Linux, Windows, MAC OSX, IBM AIX (of course – IBM created the eclipse framework). It as close to an OS-agnostic…

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console2 (KDE Konsole on Windows)

  My ideal workstation to manage UNIX servers is kubuntu, running KDE. I recently did a day of off-site work. I used a laptop running exactly that environment. I fell back in love with the terminal program Konsole. There are two primary reasons I use KDE instead of Gnome in the desktop wars. Konsole, and…

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