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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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »