Monitoring your UPS with a Pi
I have a need to monitor a couple of APC UPS’ that are supplying power for my Home Theater system. I currently don’t have a computer close by but want […]
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OpenHAB’s systeminfo binding on a Raspberry Pi 2
OpenHAB is a great application that allows you to create a Smart Home. It connects with almost any smart device. This article assumes you already have OpenHAB installed on your
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What SSL protocols is a site using.
Wondering what SSL encryption and protocols a site is using. Cipherscan is free and work well. You can find it here: Cipherscan
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Apple Keyboard with VMware Fusion.
This table lists the PC key strokes and provides methods to accomplish the corresponding key stroke/function using a Macintosh/Fusion keyboard:
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Port or Package Installation Date
There are a number of times that I need to find out when a port or package was last upgraded or installed. This comes in very handy every time I
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Upgrading all ports via portupgrade.
portupgradeis a tool that allows you to upgrade ports on your FreeBSD system. It has its faults, and it doesn’t always work (see below), but its about as close as
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Reading OS X plist files (Command line)
OS X uses plist files to store configuration information – you can think of them as OS X’s version of the windows registry. There are a number of tools to
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Installing Apache, MySQL, and PHP in OS X Maverick
With the new OS (Maverick 10.9), getting the AMP stack (Apache, MySQL, PHP) runnig is pretty much the same as it was in OS X Mountain Lion 10.8. This tutorial
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Installing wget in OS X (Maverick)
Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks comes with the command line utility called ‘curl‘ which is a network transfer tool, it does not come with the popular ‘wget‘, in fact ‘curl‘
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Installing Pear on OS X (Maverick)
PEAR is a poplular PHP package manager, it doesn’t come by default on OSX, how to install PEAR on OSX 10.9 Mavericks and earlier versions of OSX.
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