Find files modified recently in Linux and OSX
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Todd Lake to Broken Top hike
On Friday, I hiked from Todd Lake to Broken Top with my sister. We’d read about the hike in Virginia Meissner’s Central Oregon hiking guidebook, and thought ...
How to cleanly merge panorama photos in Photoshop
Sometimes, after doing a Photomerge in Photoshop (File -> Automate -> Photomerge), you end up with a panorama that looks like this:
Working with thread events in Python
I recently wrote a multithreaded download queue manager in Python. I had the actual file downloads running in its own thread. I only wanted the program to do...
Performing DNS lookups with Dig
My coworker was configuring a Windows Update server recently, and the domain was being blocked. We realized that there was a DNS entry that redirected Window...
How to import GPX data from a legacy Garmin 60CSX
I borrowed a friend’s old GPSmap 60CSx to build an elevation profile of a hike that we had gone on. The device was purchased in 2006 and not supported out-of...
Daemonizing a Python script
It’s pretty straightforward to daemonize and communicate with a Python script using the PYRO (Python Remoting Objects) library. I found this example on Stack...
Automating SFTP authentication with SSH keys
I spun up a VPS recently and needed to pull files down via SFTP. I automated this process by using SSH keys and a BASH script.
How to resize VirtualBox virtual machine storage on OSX
I ran out of space on a VirtualBox Windows VM recently and needed to resize the virtual hard disk. I searched around and these are the steps that ultimately ...