A while ago I wondered if it's possible to change the SSH passphrase as the phrase was rather hard to type and somewhat cumbersome. Till then I never thought about changing the passphrase and wasn't sure if it's possible, but it's actually pretty easy.
Run the following command to change the passphrase.
$ ssh-keygen -p -f path/to/your/keyfile
You will be asked to enter your old passphrase then you're free to define a new one. It's as simple as that.
Run the following shell commands to show all the hidden files in Apple Finder. The defaults command will adjust the respective configuration, and killall stops the Finder process to force a restart.
$ defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles -boolean true && killall Finder
To hide the files again change the boolean argument of the first command to false.
Let's start with the good news: Microsoft finally dropped the support for Internet Explorer 8, 9, and 10 [1], and even better Google Chrome has become the most popular browser [2].
Despite the great news, you might still need to test and debug your application on good old IE.
Most of you probably already have a great local debugging environment using Parallels, VMware or VirtualBox with different operating system and browser combinations. Providing dozen of different Internet Explorer versions, to workaround IE madness.
This Post is for those of you, who don't have such a setup or want to automate theirs. All you need is Vagrant, VirtualBox and a Vagrantfile configured to provision different Microsoft VMs.
Please make sure that you've installed and properly configured the following software:
Download the following Vagrantfile to provision IE VMs that use the host DNS resolver and proxy configuration.
It additionally supports the provisioning of the guests hostfile, so that you don't need to fiddle with system settings if you just want to crackdown a bug.
https://github.com/orlandohohmeier/vagrant-ie
Use the following command to download, create and provision your debugging environments.
$ vagrant up ${environment}
Available environments: vista-ie7, w7-ie8, w7-ie10, w7-ie11, w8-ie10, w8.1-ie11, w10-edge
Use the following command to stop/halt the environment.
$ vagrant halt ${environment}
If you want to start over, use the following command to shut down the running environment and destroy all resources created during the machine creation process.
$ vagrant destroy ${environment}
BTW: This helps to get rid of the annoying *expired* warning.
For a full list of commands and vagrant options, please see:
https://docs.vagrantup.com/v2/cli/index.html
/source¹ http://thenextweb.com
/source² http://gizmodo.com
If you need a simple http server to just serve your static files, here you go: Just run one of the following commands in the respective directory.
Python 2.x:
$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer
Python 3.x:
$ python -m http.server
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The Git protocol is often blocked by firewalls, which could at least be a problem if you are using a dependency/package manager like NPM or Bower. They tend to use the Git protocol as it offers great speed over SSH and HTTPS.
If you can't convince your admin of trust, to open port 9418, you can use the Git configuration to use HTTPS instead of the Git protocol. Just execute the following command:
$ git config --global url.https://.insteadOf git://
For a detailed list of available configuration options please see:
http://git-scm.com/docs/git-config
Two awesome days packed with announcements, workshops and great sessions, which I enjoyed very much.
Google introduced the new design concept and the upcoming Android "L" release, featuring unified multitasking, app search, an updated recent view and remote wipe.
I heard about Android Wear, Auto and TV. It’s Android everywhere: On your wrist, in your car and your TV. All seamless connected, context aware and voice enabled.
I learnt about the new Service Worker API providing methods to persistently cache resources and even to handle all the application network access – bridging the gap between the web and apps.
Heard alot about performance and its importance.
Learnt about Polymer a Web Component enabling framework aiming to solve many of todays web development shortcomings by empowering a readable, declarative, meaningful and maintainable markup.
Thank you Google!