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(2017-09-14) Squashing multiple commits into one: git log shows you the history: [dave@store02 ansible]$ git log commit 777574670a1c5dccc91f12320a811759163e4ff9 Author: David Mackintosh <dave@gridway.net> Date: Thu Sep 14 12:20:31 2017 -0400 davem.sh ha...

Problem I need to make a disk bigger Solution Resize the disk: $ gcloud compute disks list | grep home home us-central1-f zone 500 pd-ssd READY home-ssh-keys us-central1-f zone 400 ...

Google expects you to use the "Directed Identity" feature to sign in with your Google account. Enter into the box the following string: https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id ...and you should end up logged in as a URL at google.com with a humongous string of...

You may have been directed to this page by Dave's email signature, and because you noticed some kind of mystery attachment to Dave's email message that your client can't or won't deal with (or even is giving you dire warnings that the attachment is evil ). Thi...

Basically this boils down to the application being unable to exclusively lock the memory page because it doesn't have root powers. To fix this, set-UID-root /usr/bin/gpg. # chmod 4555 /usr/bin/gpg The 'official page' at http://www.gnupg.org/faq.html is much w...

The server subkeys.pgp.net is the preferred keyserver (for various reasons expounded at length elsewhere). Adding your key to the keyserver: [jupiter]gpg --send-keys --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net dave@xdroop.com gpg: success sending to `subkeys.pgp.net' (status...

(Note, 2024: man, the '90s were a long time ago, right?) You may find a starting point here: www.gnupg.org/(en)/documentation/faqs.html#q4.15 Note that you'll have to copy-and-paste this URL into your browser because SnipSnap can't deal with URLs which have ...

$ gpg --list-secret-keys $ gpg -a --export-secret-key [id]

GnuPrivacyGuard basics These are the bare-bones instructions to get you going. Reading the documentation (online at http://www.gnupg.org/en/manual.html) is highly recommended. It is a good idea to get a buddy to go through this at the same time that you do -- ...

(19 March 2012) Last year when I rebuilt my server I had the opportunity to see specifically what effect greylisting was having on my inbox. Right now my mailbox is stored on a Gmail account. However I handle the MX for my zone directly, and then send the inco...

Figure out what your cdrom drive's device is. For your own peace of mind, don't use SAM, because SAM is broken in HP-11.00. [root@dusty]ioscan -fnC disk Class I H/W Path Driver S/W State H/W Type Description disk 0 10/0/...

(2015-03-10) Something which I realized a few years back and have not read anywhere before or since: If you are messing around with interface-based VPNs (on your JunOS or ScreenOS firewall), the temptation is to put them in the untrust zone. VPNs are untrusted...

(14 August 2012) Available on rpmforge. Basic throughput testing, TCP: run the server # iperf -s run the client # iperf -c 10.0.0.22 ------------------------------------------------------------ Client connecting to 10.0.0.22, TCP port 50...

Once upon a time in a village, a man appeared and announced to the villagers that he would buy monkeys for $10 each. The villagers seeing that there were many monkeys around, went out to the forest, and started catching them. The man bought thousands at $10 an...

(2005/2006 era) Alex is at the age where Sesame Street is a frequent, if not regular, visitor to our TV. It is gratifying to see parts of the children's shows which are aimed not at the children, but at the adults which frequently watch the shows with their ch...

(7 September 2012) Poul-Henning Kamp writes about A Generation Lost In The Bazaar: Here is one example of an ironic piece of waste: Sam Leffler's graphics/libtiff is one of the 122 packages on the road to www/firefox, yet the resulting Firefox browser does no...

Law There's always an easier way. Corollary Things frequently get done sooner if you just do them the hard way rather than continuing to seek an easier way. (Also known as the Projects Manager's Observation: sometimes you just have to shoot the engineers and p...

Law Anything which can be measured, will be measured on the Internet. 1st Corollary Anything measured on the Internet will become the subject of a Dick-Size War. 2nd Corollary Anything measured on the Internet will become the subject of at least one person or ...