Posts on Will Haley

Charities and Humanities Some of my favorite organizations that I like to support.

So you want to encrypt your $HOME on your Mac but nothing else?

I want to be able to run a single script from my client machine, and push HTML changes and nginx config changes to a remote server.

Articles that I have clipped over the years.

My guide is largely based on the Deploying to Amazon S3 guide from Semaphore, but with some pre-requisite steps and fine-tuning to S3.

The T-Mobile Jet 2.0 is a USB 4G modem.

First, list all block devices with an identifier for their PCI device. ls -al /sys/block/sd* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Sep 6 10:01 /sys/block/sda -> ..

After following DigitalOcean’s guide for upgrading to Ubuntu Xenial I hit a snag.

I have several computers sitting around my home in various states of completion.

Start with one drive.

After much trial and error, I discovered how to properly get subtitle support in Plex without needing to manually enable subtitles when viewing.

Saving electricity is great for the environment and my utility bill.

I have a tendency to go on rants when I encounter a major service provider doing something upsetting.

It took me longer than I’d like to admit to learn how to use the secureErase command to shred a disk using diskutil in OS X El Capitan. # This works, using one pass of random data. # Replace `disk3` with whatever you need!

Here are a few queries and miscellaneous commands that I like to keep on hand, and may help you as well.

Creating an extension for TinyCore Linux is fairly straightforward thanks to their documentation.

I have a Vagrant box where I want to SSH in as the standard vagrant user for the initial provision and deployment, but I want to use my own alternate custom user account for my dev work.

Google does not seem to actively advertise this, but they have a nice Chrome extension in their Chrome Web Store that allows for editing .doc, .docx, and other Microsoft file formats in their native forms.

I came across an interesting issue with a node module recently.

I recently noticed, by means of a Google search, that an old post of mine was still alive and well on my Octopress site.

Create a Linux virtual machine that can run on a Windows, Linux, or Mac OSX host.

From within a QEMU VM, you can access the host at 10.0.2.2.

In the past I have used the built-in Windows Disk Management snap-in to shrink volumes and clone them to smaller disks, but I recently discovered that in some cases, Windows will only let you shrink a volume so far.

Backup Servers and Security I am the IT manager for my family.

For this post I’m assuming you already have Tiny Core Linux up and running and persistence (Tiny Core’s ability to save changes) is working.

To use MariaDB with Tiny Core Linux you must provide a data directory that is persistent and writeable.

I occasionally teach computer classes at a local community center and one of our classes covers basic WordPress and web design.

There’s a bit of a bad user experience when you run out of space to install new apps on your Android device.

👋 I’m Will.

I wrote this because I could not find one specific post or site that could confirm the process for rooting my phone.

In my experience, every Android emulator normally uses the Latin (English) IME for character input.

These instructions apply not just to a Raspberry Pi, but many Linux distributions.

You will need the following: A Pi with Raspbian installed and the SSH daemon (sshd) enabled Enough free space on your Pi to backup whatever it is you want to backup (you could always connect an external drive and mount that on your Pi) Update your router…

See the official Raspberry Pi Wireless Access Point Guide.

I have XP installed on a drive with a configuration like this.

I have an old Dell desktop that seems to crawl to a stop whenever some intense disk I/O takes place.

These instructions assume you have already installed a version of Python compatible with Flask.

These instructions worked for me on my BlueHost instance, but I cannot guarantee they will work for everyone.

During an Altiris Deployment Server implementation I was interested in a way to automatically sort computer objects based on office name.

I’ve been trying to find a reliable way to make sure I only have a single instance of a running Java application.

The idle timer is the countdown after a user driven event on a Windows computer.