Discovering the Chromebook

As I have been beginning to explore the Chromebook I have started building a list of different commands and thought it may be useful to publish them. I will try to keep this updated as I go. About Commands The following will give you a listing of different about: pages that you can get to by typing them in the browser. There seemed to be some good areas for basic networking information, system information and access to experimental features. about:about To access/enable experimental features type the following into the url bar. These commands may change over time. about:flags Keyboard Shortcuts …

GIT Hosting with gitolite

Setting up GIT hosting using gitolite This is my first git server and after some reading I decided to build gitolite to manage my git repositories. To begin building we need to generate a public/private key pair on your workstation and then we need to download and install gitolite from github since gitolite is not currently available in my servers distribution (Ubuntu 10.04). Alternately, you could install gitolite from your distribution (but that may change these instructions a bit). From your workstation First I generated a DSA keypair on my workstation. $ ssh-keygen -t dsa Generating public/private dsa key pair. …

Solaris 10 SSH Migration

While migrating data between multiple servers I ran into a few interesting situations with SSH that I thought would be worth mentioning. If nothing else it will add some more documentation to this site. Solaris tar vs. GNU tar After using tar for years on Linux I always figured all tar’s were the same until I tried to untar an archive on Solaris. When I untar’ed a Linux tar archive on Solaris I ran into an error along with a @LongLink file in my directory. This was caused by incompatabilities between GNU tar and the default tar bundled in Solaris. …