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There’s quite a lot of info on how to install Jekyll on Ubuntu and most don’t work. Here’s how to install Jekyll on an Ubuntu Live USB. [Read More]

Whenever I travel and need to use a machine where I need to login with my credentails, I am wary or hesitant to do so. In such cases, I’ve always carried with myself a bootable USB that boots to a clean Ubuntu OS. That way, I am sure that the... [Read More]

You can sign your git commits with GPG to cryptographically verify the commit is really from you. I’m not going to cover how to sign a commit with a GPG key, but rather how to make this work with SourceTree (a good, free graphical Git tool). It isn’t quite so... [Read More]

So Microsoft released version 1709, also called Fall Creators Update. This post deals with how to upgrade Enterprise editions of Windows to 1709 since Microsoft doesn’t push the version 1709 to Enterprise editions. Yet. If you are running the latest version of Windows Enterprise (as of this writing) you should... [Read More]

So, I happened upon a particularly tricky issue. I am using the AWS Beijing Region (cn-north-1) and I wanted to create a CloudFormation template of our environment. Amazon provides a template called CloudFormer in their CloudFormation page [Read More]