I was in need of password protecting a ZIP file on macOS, but couldn’t find an intuitive way to do so. Luckily we can do it on the terminal. This works with both macOS and Linux. This command will prompt you for a password to protect the ZIP file with. The result will be an …
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I’ve been using Rackspace Cloud Files Sync, a little piece of software I’ve written myself, for some years now. I use it to backup my photo’s and movies I’ve shot over the last decade or so. The thing I like about it is that it syncs your local folder with a Cloud Files container. When …
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Virtual Private Servers are usually installed with the minimum required software. More often than not this means Bash auto-completion isn’t enabled, which is a tad bit annoying as it slows down navigation. To fix this you can install the bash-completion package. Like so: $ sudo apt-get install bash-completion
Whenever you’re upgrading the software packages on your VirtualBox machine, managed by Vagrant, you risk VirtualBox Guest Additions render unusable and thus your shared folders don’t work anymore. This usually happens whenever a kernel upgrade is being done which requires the VirtualBox drivers to be recompiled. Thanks to a Vagrant plugin called vbguest you can …
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Recently I launched my new product HTML2PDF Web Service — a web service for converting HTML to PDF. In this post I’d like to talk about HTML2PDF Web Service. Why to choose it, how to use it and what technologies were used to create it. Why Choose HTML2PDF Web Service? Programmatically generating PDF documents is …