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Well, in using 1Password on Linux, if you try to just double click on the .agilekeychain with Firefox or Chrome, it will fail because for security reasons, you can no longer access local files from a browser. To make it work, if you are internet connected, login to the www.dropbox.com…

Well, I don’t know what is up with the thing, but it is eerie when you have *exactly the same problem as someone else! See http://forum.dji.com/thread-18942-2-1.html I’ve formatted the sd.. then put the 1.3 update on it. I put the sd in the P3 and left it on for about 40…

OK, this is the strangest product in some ways on the simple things. It is so tightly integrated with github, but it isn’t clear how to use it. Logging into another account it isn’t clear how to logout of it and sign it with another github account. You actually have…

Well what are the cool tools we’ve been using lately: Slack. Wow I see why they got a billion dollar valuation. Slack is already a verb in our shop and I barely read email anymore. It is much more public than email and has some really convenient features for developers:…

We have some really old Linksys switches, but they still work, so trying to get them up from 2007 software. Here are the steps: The switches ship with firmware 1.0.0.45, to get them to the new graphical interface called version 3.0.0.17, you have to use the Easy Upgrade utility that…

Trying out different firewall specific builds. One small gotcha. If you are trying pfsense, then you download the memstick version if you want to make a usb stick and you need to use dd to create a 16k sector size system   gzcat pfsense-memstick.img | dd of=/dev/rdisk2 bs=16k But if…

Seems like i have to do this every six months. Well here’s the latest update on how to do it: howtogeek.com has a new graphical method rather than the command line approach of Ubuntu. It uses an open source tool cleverly named Mac Linux USB Loader. It even downloads a distribution…

You know there are some moments when you really achieve something incredible. Not something that is good. Like seeing your brother or going to the hospital for a friend but which is truly amazing and unique? Well this shot to me symbolizes that. After thousand of photos and thousands of…

There are so many out there that I just limited myself to analyzing those that are small enough and made of metal so they can fit on your key ring: Kingston SE9 G2. I’ve been using these for quite a while and unfortunately for USB 3.0 they aren’t super fast…

Ok, now that I’ve worked on Python debugging (Sublime in Vintage mode, Anaconda, Logging, winpdb in a loop), although given my personal keyboard speed, using vi a lot because winpdb errors are not as clear as just the python interactive errors. Then there is the Javascript thing I need to learn and here’s…