I’m starting a new job where I need to have my SSH keys pushed to hundreds of Red Hat servers. The special sauce is a command called ssh-copy-id. However, using this command requires you answering a (yes/no) question, then shortly thereafter enter your password. Painful. Here’s how push your keys without the pain.
I love these various shortcuts. Most are somewhat obscure, or at least were to me. To open Quick Look in full screen mode Command+Option+Y To open a new Finder window (with no other finder windows open.) Hold down Command and Command + Tab until you get to the Finder. Once the Finder is highlighted, and …
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SSH is one of those things I use every day, and maybe what I use most throughout the day. These are either things I didn’t know (escape sequences), or haven’t looked into before. To get to the SSH escape sequences, you need a new line, followed by ~ and ?. That’s a newline (return), followed …
UPDATE… Not all Macs that are capable of booting a 64 bit kernel will boot the 64 bit kernel. The Mini is one of those… (This is from Apple.) Getting those machines NOT on the list to boot into a 64 bit kernel is possible, but it’s beyond the scope of this article (it involves …
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In Seattle, Comcast has been moving most of the channels from unencrypted QAM to encrypted QAM. That means that things I used to be able to record with my EyeTV and HD Homerun setup no longer work. I’ve heard rumors that you could install the Apple firewire SDK and record using the FireWire output of …
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