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Is there an ansible/salt/chef like thing for simple personal use?
I find myself wanting to codify my coding environment - packages, dotfiles, vim/emacs plugins etc. I currently host my dotfiles on github, and it would be awesome to have a way to have required ...
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How to mount NFS share in OS X Yosemite?
I have an NFS server (CentOS 6.6 at IP 192.168.1.16) that shares a folder /nfs/share.
I want to mount this folder from a Mac laptop (at mount point /nfs/share).
When I tried the following:
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Ugly LaTeX generated PDF on OS X
I have a book I am writing in TeX, which is nice, but I only recently realized how ugly my local TeX to PDF export looks:
For reference, mine is on left, and a random Linux box that I have access to ...
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Is there a way to call gnome nautilus sushi to view files using command line?
I like the file quick viewer of nautilus (using to preview files, supporting many kinds of file types). How can I call this previewer from terminal directly? Or is there some alternative program ...
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Installing Linux alongside Mac + Windows AFTER Bootcamp
I'm looking to set up triple-booting on my Macbook Pro, running OSX, Windows 7, and something Linux (probably Ubuntu 14.04)
Ordinarily, I don't think this would be too hard, but most of what I've ...
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LC_LOCALE settings interactions between Mac OSX and LINUX via SSH
I have been struggling with the following problem for years now. I have never been able to solve it, and I adopted several workarounds to keep being able to work. However now I can't stand it anymore, ...
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Behaviour of Caps-lock in Linux on VirtualBox, OSX Host
I'm running Ubuntu under virtualbox on a MacBook Pro and I'm trying to
remap the Caps-Lock key to mod3 so I can use it as a replacement for the Alt
key in Xmonad. I can remap the keysyms but the ...
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Unzip speed on Mac versus Linux
I have a zip file that contains 200mb of data, compressed to an 80mb .ZIP file. Basically it's a website with thousands of files, including code and images, no video.
The file was zipped on a linux ...
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Can I use a MacBook as a second monitor for my OpenSUSE/KDE?
Because I am traveling I can't buy a second monitor, but I have two laptops. One laptop is installed with OpenSUSE 13.3, I use KDE as GUI.
I have another MacBook with OS X. It has X server running on ...
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OS X configurations partially lost when sharing home directory with Linux
I've installed Arch Linux on my Macbook Pro with OS X 10.8.5. I created an HFS+ volume(journalling disabled) for home directories so that my personal data can be shared between the two OSes. Sometimes,...
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Reuse Linux SSH-Key with MacOS
I want to use an SSH-Private-Key generated on Debian 7 with my MacOS-Machine. So I copied id_rsa and id_rsa.pub to .ssh/ on my Mac. The Key is recognized, but every time I enter my passphrase the ...
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Can't access OSX truecrypt from linux
I have a truecrypt volume generated on osx. I don't remember which filesystem type I chose, but I think it was macosx extended.
I am trying to access this disk from linux ubuntu 12.02, but ...
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Having problems with booting GRUB for EFI on USB stick
Whatever I do, it constantly drops me into the 'bash prompt'. Never displays a menu, nothing. I'm running GRUB on a USB stick formatted as msdos (so, FAT) and when I boot into it, GRUB simply won't ...
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format external hdd with udf not working on mac os x lion
I formatted my 1tb external drive with the following command:
mkudffs --media-type=hd --blocksize=512 /dev/sdb
It works on linux but when i plug it in a mac (os x lion 10.7) it tells me
The disk ...
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Why is my portable WD My Passport drive not recognized?
My Western Digital My Passport portable drive is not recognized in OS X. It used to be recognized, but not anymore. It does not appear in /Volumes.
The hard drive is recognized by a Linux machine. I ...
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