Category: "Other"

git "Permission denied (publickey,keyboard-interactive)."
Apr 12th
If you are getting permission denied when working with git on a remote server using a key, this may help.
First test to ensure the key will be accepted by the remote server.
ssh -v git@git.example.com
Look for these lines in the output:
debug1:… more »

Amazon S3 Backup
Mar 30th
This is the third tier of a backup system, the last resort if everything has been destroyed or corrupted.
The first step is to sign up at Amazon for an S3 account, create a bucket and a user. Limit the privileges for the user as much as possible, for… more »

Sifting Through Spam
Jan 26th
If you are setting up email filters for an account, some useful tactics are:
Display the headers of the emails in the account:
Shellgrep -iE "^(subject|from|reply-to|X-Spam-Level):" *
Once you identify messages of interest, you can use… more »

CentOS 6.4 VirtualBox with Windows 7 (64-bit) Guest
May 29th
I have an ASUS laptop with a factory installed version of Windows 7 (64-bit) on the internal hard drive, and CentOS 6.4 running off an external USB drive.
My goal was to use Windows 7 to host as many browsers as possible for testing. For that reason… more »

CentOS 6 / Windows 8 Dual-Boot on Different Drives
Apr 29th
Please don't consider this an authoritative post. To reach this point there were many, many reboots, reinstalls, and recoveries.
I bought a small ASUS tower from Best Buy and a 120GB solid-state drive.
I tried to install CentOS 6.4 over Windows… more »