Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Getting an "RPC endpoint not found/not listening" exception when connecting to a remote machine with PowerShell

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Lately I've been dealing with a lot of remote management for the purposes of automating our deployment process for the product on which ...
Saturday, August 09, 2014

Creating a certificate chain of self-signed certificates for development / testing / private environments

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As anybody who's ever tried to develop secure services with SSL knows, it's expensive to buy trusted certificates from a certificati...
Thursday, July 17, 2014

Retargeting a Windows 8 application to Windows 8.1

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Apparently, fuck Windows 8. So says everybody. Including Microsoft. That's why at some point you're going to have to retarget your W...
Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Making TFS builds consistent with desktop builds when invoking MSBuild directly on a .*proj file

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As it turns out, MSBuild has more than a few quirks when being invoked through TFS compared to being invoked through a command line or from ...
Thursday, June 26, 2014

Getting code signing to work with ClickOnce on a TFS Build Agent

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Code signing is a giant pain in the butt. You have to : Obtain the certificate for signing the code by: buying the certificate from an ...
Sunday, June 22, 2014

Converting an existing Windows Store app to using the Prism Framework

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I began converting an existing Windows Store App to using the Prism Framework provided by Microsoft. However, I'm running into the follo...

Creating my first Windows 8 store app

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As you may or may not be aware, there are multiple types of applications that can be created for Windows 8: Windows store apps, which use...

Beginning to work with Windows Store apps

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I really hate Windows 8. I think the majority of the applications that have been written for it are complete pieces of shit, for the followi...
Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Resolving ssh: connect to host xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx port 22: Connection refused

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There are a number of reasons why an SSH server may fail to allow a client to connect. Many aren't readily apparent, even from tailing s...
Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Apache fails to handle requests with "libgcc_s.so.1 must be installed for pthread_cancel to work"

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I recently had an apache2 server go down while I was using it. I still don't know what caused it, but I do know how I fixed it, thanks t...
Thursday, April 03, 2014

Waiting for the network to be up on the BeagleBone Black

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It finally hit me today as I was reading over this article , and it should have hit me sooner. The article mentions that in order to get pas...

ImportError: No module named pkg_resources when trying to use pip on the BeagleBone Black

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I've recently been trying to use Python on the BeagleBone Black, for a number of reasons: I want to learn a new language which could ...
Friday, March 21, 2014

Undefined reference to `log' when compiling on Ubuntu 13.10 with gcc

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After I upgraded to Ubuntu 13.10, I inexplicably started getting errors in a build that had been perfect for a very long time. It turned out...
Monday, March 17, 2014

Slow login times in Ubuntu 13.10 (not just SSH)

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I recently setup a new install of Ubuntu 13.10 for a server and found that a lot of my login times were slow when remotely logging in (and n...
Thursday, March 13, 2014

Developing a cape for the BeagleBone (Black)

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Due to the needs of our company, we're developing an in-house cape for the BeagleBone Black to integrate it with our equipment. Yes, the...
Friday, January 31, 2014

Recovering the root password on a BeagleBone Black

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I recently went to use a BeagleBone Black board on which I'd never booted from the eMMC before (that I could recall) and had been instea...
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Implicit rules with Makefile

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In my ongoing quest to make my builds less complex and faster, I've been going through my Makefiles and trying to learn as much as possi...
Thursday, January 02, 2014

Installing NTP on an Ubuntu server

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NTP is used to synchronized time between machines. You can read the Ubuntu HOWTO here .

Installing a TFTP server using xinetd on Ubuntu

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I recently had need to redo an old server that had been running an ancient Gentoo installation for which there was no longer a software upgr...
Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Digging into Raspberry Pi: Part 2

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So, further into my quest to build a control system with the Raspberry Pi, I've been looking around at ways to have simple input from th...