My Little Pocket Universe
Scott Garrett If you are a Mac user, and decide to use the OS keychain to unlock your ssh keys, you might want to go back to existing keys you have, and add a password to them. This can be accomplished easily enough with the same ssh-keygen command you use to generate new keys. The command has … Read more
One really nice feature of MacOS is the integration of ssh keys with the OS keychain. This allows you to put a password on your ssh private key(s) that will unlock when you log in. Using this feature, combined with the ssh agent, and you can have a password protected ssh key, and not have … Read more
Sometimes you need a way to get in to a system that is not accessible publicly, and for whatever reason, you can’t use a full VPN. This is a good time for the connectivity Swiss-Army-Knife, and your best friend, ssh and, if available, its companion autossh. And for you Windows people, I mean ssh, not … Read more
Sometimes I use external programs to update my Music files; specifically, I like using MusicBrainz Picard to add extra information. Once you change the info externally, you need to tell Music to re-read the file and update. You can always “Get Info” on each file individually, if you only have a few files to refresh. … Read more
Recently, I’ve been going through my Music collection and doing cleanup. I’ve been using iTunes and now the hot mess of Apple Music since the very beginning. Throughout the years, various tracks have randomly disappeared, or gotten corrupted in some way. I’m not entirely sure why, though I think it might have something to do … Read more
I am not advocating piracy here. This is just a method to remove the purchased flag from Apple Music/iTunes downloaded files, and make them show up as normal AAC files if you have some reason to do so. The shotgun approach is to just remove all the meta-data from the stream. This is simple enough … Read more
You have probably created nice icons for your volumes or folders, only have them get removed at some point that you cannot remember. To keep from losing it, you can easily keep a backup of it. You can keep it in icns format, or make a PNG out of it. From a command line (Terminal … Read more
Sometimes it’s nice to override the default icons for various folders and drives on your Mac. Fortunately, the Mac makes it trivial to do this, as you can just drag an image into the icon in the “Get Info” window of a file in the Finder. I used to just do that with empty folders … Read more
In setting up Zabbix to monitor my devices, I had to look up how to set up SNMP in VMware. My first mistake was assuming that vCenter, the central management system for VMware, would actually centrally manage SNMP. It does not. From what I can tell, you cannot set up SNMP from the GUI, and … Read more
Update (2022/02/08): Ubiquiti has acknowledged this is is a problem, and said it will be fixed in a future release. Update 2 (2022/03/04) Issue still not fixed with recent patches. No surprise. Update (2025/12/12) – Issue still not fixed, but the config was moved. The Ubiquiti UDM Pro is, over all, a fantastic device. But … Read more