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Docker itself is pretty cool, but when you add remote control of multiple machines it gets really powerful. You can essentially use docker-machine to control remote cloud instances or to control virtual machines that are running locally. There is also a powerful idea called generic which means you can start…

Oh if this were easy. As explained, this is at first easy, just increase the virtual disk space. In fact with today’s large machine and the fact this is all virtual, literally going from 20GB default to 200GB seems a no brainer for most developers: Expand from VMware Fusion the…

Wow sometimes I wonder about VMware. If u install Mac OS X capitan with fusion 8 then suddenly copy and paste and hgfs (the ability to see mac file system from VMware breaks without any symptoms.  Thanks to sam who ferreted it out here is what is going on: VMware…

What to do for the guy who has everything? Order them some incredible foods over the internet of course. We are big farm-to-table types and love local stories, so collectiong from gear patrol, esquire and other fork & steve, here are some recommendations: La Frieda. In Bergen County, they had…

Was just talking to a new grad and realized this credit card and credit score thing is filled with disinformation and confusing… So if you are new to credit here are the three things to do to maximize your credit score Get free credit cards as soon as possible. I’d…

Wow, it used to be basically impossible to get more than the typical credit card discount (1 point or about 2 cents per mile), but now here are some nice offers because credit cards are getting competitive, in order, if you use Amazon: Amazon Prime Store Card. This gives you…

Well the biggest problem are lots of passwords and the solution are password managers but what if password managers get hacked or have vulnerabilities? Or are closed source? Sadly both the managers I’ve used have both.  Lastpass. I switched away last year because their site was compromised and more importantly…

This is actually a really fun feature on the iPhone 6s Plus. you can see a mini movie next to each still. There are a few tricks: While you can export these out to the real world, you get a JPG and a MOV file and these do not import…

Well I have a bunch of big panoramas and I normally use Hugin to process them. But it seems to have trouble on El Capitan and also apparently you know need to install a separate tool called autopano-sift-c to get control points to work properly but this didn’t seem to…

I wrote a script on this but of course I forgot how it all works. The brief summary is that there is a new encryption scheme that is supposed to be better than RSA called elliptical encryption using a curve handily named ED25519. It needs at least OpenSSL 5.7 or…