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Sep/14

Installing Latest Docker Server On Ubuntu 14.04

Filed Under Linux, Software at 8th September 2014 0:01 by

Overview Docker is becoming a very popular software container for Linux based deployments. It allows software to be wrapped into containers and deployed onto the server. The container is “jailed” so that it’s processes cannot interfer with others (a sandboxing … Continue reading →

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Sep/14

Chef Dependency Hell

Filed Under Software at 1st September 2014 0:01 by

I’ve been playing around with Chef in conjunction with Vagrant and it’s become very obvious the lack of dependency management. Chef cookbooks has a metadata.rb which has a dependency directive to allow users to see what the cookbook relies on. … Continue reading →

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Aug/14

Docker On DigitalOcean Cannot Resolve Hostnames

Filed Under Linux at 25th August 2014 0:01 by

Overview I encountered an issue where during the build of my Docker container it was not able to get a response back during an apt-get update command. It turns out it was unable to resolve the DNS entries because of … Continue reading →

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Aug/14

Share .bashrc

Filed Under Linux at 18th August 2014 0:01 by

Suggested by Dave Bradford, it turns out you can share .bashrc files between computers and use symbolic link. Rename the file: mv ~/.bashrc ~/bashrc.bak Dropbox example: ln -s ~/Dropbox/.bashrc ~/.bashrc where the .bashrc is stored in the root Dropbox folder. … Continue reading →

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Aug/14

Checkout Specific Files From Git

Filed Under SCM at 11th August 2014 0:01 by

Overview From Git 1.7 it is possible to checkout specific files from a repository. The feature in Git is called sparse checkout. How To Create a repository: git init myRepo where myRepo is the directory to create the new repository. … Continue reading →

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Aug/14

Manually Installing Sublime Text 2 On Ubuntu

Filed Under Linux, Software at 4th August 2014 0:01 by

Overview Sublime is one of the best of the text editor I have used. One of the best things about it is that it’s cross platform but it doesn’t include an installer for Linux. Install Download a copy of the … Continue reading →

28

Jul/14

Creating ls command in Windows

Filed Under Windows at 28th July 2014 0:01 by

Create a ls.bat file with the contents: dir %1 the %1 is the parameters passed into the command so that you can do ls My Documents or just ls. There are different places to put the ls.bat file but as … Continue reading →

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Jul/14

Reduce SSD Wear By Moving Windows Temporary Files Cache To RAM Disk

Filed Under Windows at 21st July 2014 0:01 by

Overview Temporary files used by Windows can be moved to a RAM disk to improve speed as well as Go here to see how to create a RAM Disk. Drawbacks As with most things there is a compromise. RAM Disk … Continue reading →