Enabling Middle Click on Alps Devices
I have a problem. My problem is that I spent my formative years in personal computing using a mouse with a middle mouse button. With the advent of touchpads ...
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WSL the Easy Way
I personally use Windows as my daily driver workstation operating system for managing both Windows and Linux servers. Most of the reason this is possible is ...
Tracking your home directory in Git Part 3
We left off in Part 2 having our Git repository cloned into the home directory on two separate workstations. Both of these workstations are on the Linux bran...
Tracking your home directory in Git Part 2
In Part 1 we created a repo to store our home directory and set it up on our first machine. That would be great if all we want to do is keep track of histori...
Tracking your home directory in Git Part 1
One of the most annoying things about working with multiple workstations is keeping your various settings and configurations in sync. This is even more annoy...
Domain join using a Read-Only Domain Controller
Joining computers to a domain using only a read-only domain controller is a bit of a complicated process. This usually comes up because you have a server in ...
Jekyll on App Engine with CI/CD
Jekyll sites can be configured to run on Google App Engine and be built automatically using Google Cloud Build. Since Jekyll sites are entirely static files ...
Stop Windows from Prompting to Format Disks
If you’re the type of person who works a lot with removable disks not formatted as FAT, exFAT, or NTFS on Windows, you’ve probably come close to wiping out ...
Use a Yubikey remotely over RDP
Two factor authentication is great, but what about when you primarily do your work on a virtual desktop or need to sign in to a U2F application remotely? Luc...
Opinion
Breaking user assumptions, and why training is important
A recent popular post on /r/sysadmin about storing important files in the Recycle Bin got me thinking about a fairly heated discussion I had with a coworker ...