Set up an Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) virtual private server
Update
This is how-to guide is essentially unfinished. Reason? Systemd. Once I realized that Ubuntu 16.04 was using systemd as the init system I decided to start looking at other operating systems to use for my servers. If you care about this sort of thing I written down my reaso…
Posted by Orville Bennett on 9 February 2016
Yosemite OpenSSH is too old to read ECDSA SSH keys
Yosemite SSH is too old to read ecdsa SSH keys?
As you may, or may not know, I am a Front-end user interface engineer.1 I got a new Macbook Pro from work recently, to better facilitate my developer duties.2 Prior to this I was working on my personal machine with Arch Linux instal…
Posted by Orville Bennett on 15 December 2015
Enable repeating keys in OSX Yosemite
Newer versions of OS X have opted to disable a feature I use quite a lot, in order to retain consistent with behavior on iOS. That feature is the ability to hold down on a keyboard key and have it repeat until you stop pressing. To enable repeating keys in OS X yosemite enter the…
Posted by Orville Bennett on 18 September 2015
Globbing in Zsh doesn't work with scp
Since switching to zsh I've run into a variety of issues with globbing1 and other features not working the way I was used to with bash. This post is about resolving another of those issues. Today I was trying to scp some cachegrind files from a remote box and got the following er…
Posted by Orville Bennett on 18 September 2015
Grace: for computer programmers
A few years ago my son and I were talking about what he learned in church that Sunday. The end result of that conversation was that I was going to do some reading and then teach him about Grace. Not just any old grace mind you, but God's grace. Fast forward a few years and he sti…
Posted by Orville Bennett on 8 August 2015
Configuring Xorg on a Brix Mini PC to work with the Mitsubishi WS-55513 HD1080 rear projection TV
Or, how to get your pc to output video to the WS-55513 without massive overscan
I recently bought a barebones mini PC system with the intent of setting it up as a video game and video streaming server. After a lot of searching and reading of reviews, I settled on an AMD based Brix PC from Gigabyte, the Gigabyte AMD A8-5545M. Unfortunately, by the time I was …
Posted by Orville Bennett on 28 March 2015