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At time of writing, the Kanto ORA 100W Powered Reference Desktop Computer Speakers do not use typical speaker wire to connect the left and right speakers.

Despite having an original Game Boy when I was young (which I only remember playing Kirby’s Dream Land on), what I remember the most was my atomic purple Game Boy Color.

I have been running this blog for over 6 years at this point, and my posts have plenty of misspelled words.

The Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 6 has pretty good battery life, but most battery tests are performed running Windows.

I have never used a Linux distribution as my primary operating system.

In a previous post, I described how to do a clean install of Windows 10, drivers, and utilities on an MSI GS65 Stealth Thin.

Stackdriver Logging makes it easy to export Admin Activity logs to BigQuery, Cloud Storage, or Cloud Pub/Sub.

A common configuration for any web serving infrastructure is to redirect all HTTP requests to HTTPS.

I recently purchased an MSI GS65 Stealth Thin 8RE, and I immediately wanted to do a clean install of Windows 10.

awk is a pattern-directed scanning and processing language that should be available on any modern Linux-based, Unix-based, or macOS operating system.

Lately I have been trying to find new ways to make all my blogs posts more relevant in Google Search Results.

Google Drive makes it very easy to share files.

I am a big fan of Google’s Chromecast.

Multi-tier architectures are a common way to design web applications: A frontend - presentation - tier which provides the user interface An application - logic - tier where the processing happens A backend - data - tier where different storage technologies

If you are just getting started with containers and container orchestration, it can be difficult to focus on what to learn with all the different technologies available.

There are several inexpensive ways to host a static website generated with a static site generator like Jekyll, Hugo, or Pelican: GitHub Pages Google Cloud Storage Bucket Google App Engine Amazon S3 Bucket This entire blog is statically generated using Je…

Get HTTP headers only Grab only the HTTP headers, instead of the entire HTTP response and content, from a URL: curl -I $URL To ensure you see the entire request/response chain, add the -L command line switch to follow redirects: curl -IL $URL Check HTTP…

This blog has existed under a few domain names: workingconfig.com, thornelaboratories.net, and, now, thornelabs.net. workingconfig.com didn’t exist for very long, and never had many - if any - backlinks to it; it didn’t make sense to keep those URLs alive.

The yum command, and now the newer dnf command, typically provide all of the functionality needed to manage packages on RPM-based Linux distributions.

I have always preferred web development.

Bootstrap is a popular HTML, CSS, and Javascript frontend framework to quickly develop clean, responsive, and well layed out websites.

While trying to generate Let’s Encrypt SSL certificates with lego and gcloud DNS, I encountered an error that would not allow me to obtain a certificate.

Since it was released to the world, Let’s Encrypt has been a boon for anyone wanting to secure their website or web application with TLS.

By default, CentOS 7 will kickstart and boot using predictable network interface names.

As of OS X 10.11.4 and .5, not sure which, I have issues connecting external hard drives to an Early-2015, 12-inch, retina MacBook.

Print Partition Table Print partition table in bytes: parted /dev/sdb print Print partition table in sectors: parted /dev/sdb unit s print Print partition table free space in bytes: parted /dev/sdb print free Print partition table free space in sectors:

ab, Apache Bench, is often used to load test websites, but I didn’t find it extensible enough for my needs.

My job frequently requires me to distribute passwords to people.

Recursively find all files in current directory and chmod them to 644 find .

Find and Replace Find and remove all instances of TEXT: sed 's/TEXT//g' Find and remove all spaces: sed -e 's/ //g' Delete all blank lines from a file sed '/^$/d' <FILE> Delete leading whitespace from front of each line sed 's/^[ \t]*//' <FILE> Delete…

If you have ever used scp to transfer files and/or directories containing spaces, you have problem encountered a lot of annoying errors.

Rackspace Cloud Files is, and has always been, powered by OpenStack Swift.

Cobbler has always been my goto for provisioning bare metal servers.

Debian/Ubuntu’s Preseed is not the easiest thing to understand.

Ubuntu has a great set of instructions on creating a bootable USB drive in Mac OS X, but they have an additional step I found not to be needed: there’s no need to convert the Ubuntu ISO to an IMG file.

VirtualBox has always been the go-to piece of software to spin up virtual machines on your workstation.

Sony finally released a DLNA media player for the PlayStation 4 on June 16, 2015.

Get Info About Audio/Video File ffmpeg -i INPUT Convert from MOV to MP4 Container Assuming the source video codec is compatible with the MP4 container, no re-encoding will be necessary.

I have never liked Safari’s two finger swipe back animation.

The Console application in OS X contains a lot of system logs, and, lately, I have been noticing a lot of a particular error message.

More and more devices are becoming wireless.

While installing Windows 7 64-bit onto a Samsung 850 Evo SSD, I encountered error 0x80070057 immediately after formatting the hard drive.

Datadog is a fantastic monitoring as a service company.

With the release of the new retina MacBook, all of the major tech blogs have released their reviews.

In a previous post, I described how to setup Varnish 2.1.5 on CentOS 6 as a caching server and load balancer.

Varnish is a highly regarded HTTP caching server.

I recently setup a two node replica Gluster cluster on CentOS 6.6 with Gluster version 3.6.2-1.

After setting up a two node replica Gluster cluster to use as a web content backend, I began testing what would happen when I brought down one of the Gluster nodes.

Every since I upgraded to OS X Yosemite, the experience has been lackluster.

There was a period of time when I wanted to inject an ad into a particular part of every Jekyll post.