by J.W. Spencer | Mar 26, 2014 | Commentary
Mountain View, Ca—March 25, 2014— The Computer History Museum (CHM) announced today that it has, with permission from Microsoft Corporation, made available original source code for two historic programs: MS-DOS, the 1982 “Disk Operating System” for...
by J.W. Spencer | Jan 7, 2014 | Commentary
Step 1 – Setup public SSH keys On the local server, generate the public SSH keys with no password: ssh-keygen -f ~/.ssh/id_rsa -q -P “” cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub This is the public SSH key that can be placed on other hosts to provide no-password required...
by J.W. Spencer | Nov 12, 2013 | Commentary
I’ve got multiple email accounts on my domains, as well as gmail accounts, as well as an icloud account and a work account that uses a cloud based exchange server. In this mix, I have multiple machines – Windows, Linux and OSX all running and accessing...
by J.W. Spencer | Nov 10, 2013 | Commentary
There are two Mac OSX boxes in my household. I used a different mount point for each OSX Mavericks computer on separate RAID 1 volumes, though I could have used LVM mount points to allow the backup to “grow” nicely. Installing Packages The newer releases...
by J.W. Spencer | Oct 9, 2013 | Commentary
I installed wheezy on a couple of new drives, setup for software RAID1, and when I checked the status I showed resync=pending and read-only. cat /proc/mdstat I thought that it might start sync with a reboot, or perhaps after a period of time, but you can force and...
