https://jeff.noxon.cc/tags/software/Recent content in Software on @jnoxon's thoughtsHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usjeff@noxon.cc (Jeff Noxon)jeff@noxon.cc (Jeff Noxon)Copyright © 2000-2019 Jeff Noxon. All Rights Reserved.Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:17:12 -0500https://jeff.noxon.cc/2019/03/14/migrated-from-wordpress-to-hugo/Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:17:12 -0500jeff@noxon.cc (Jeff Noxon)https://jeff.noxon.cc/2019/03/14/migrated-from-wordpress-to-hugo/I’ve migrated this blog from WordPress to Hugo. It’s something I’ve wanted to do for a long time. WordPress is a bit of a security nightmare, and although I’ve somehow never had my server owned, I did notice a couple of successful exfiltration attacks against WordPress while reviewing logs. Thankfully, the attacks were harmless. If you subscribe to my RSS feed, you’ll notice some repeated content. It wasn’t worth the effort to match the content GUIDs.https://jeff.noxon.cc/2019/02/12/using-pci-pass-through-in-vmware-esxi-6-7-on-a-2012-mac-mini/Wed, 13 Feb 2019 02:50:28 +0000jeff@noxon.cc (Jeff Noxon)https://jeff.noxon.cc/2019/02/12/using-pci-pass-through-in-vmware-esxi-6-7-on-a-2012-mac-mini/I use a 2012 Mac Mini as a home VMware ESXi server. It’s a surprisingly great little machine, with exceptionally low power consumption and good performance. It runs several Linux and Windows VMs. I’ve been gradually migrating applications to it, and the most recent is my home PLEX server. To do that, I needed to move a Thunderbolt disk enclosure (OWC ThunderBay 4) to the Mini and attach it to a Linux VM.https://jeff.noxon.cc/2014/10/28/replacing-dropbox-with-bittorrent-sync/Wed, 29 Oct 2014 04:02:15 +0000jeff@noxon.cc (Jeff Noxon)https://jeff.noxon.cc/2014/10/28/replacing-dropbox-with-bittorrent-sync/[Edit: December, 2015 – Since BitTorrent Sync hit 2.x, I’m no longer using it and I can no longer recommend it.] Too many times, you’ve heard a cloud storage/sync product described as “like Dropbox.” There’s Box, OneDrive, Google Drive, iCloud Drive, Bitcasa, SpiderOak, Wuala, Transporter, and I’ve missed a bunch. It doesn’t matter because they’re all pretty bad, and nearly all have the same problem, which is that any data you upload can be decrypted by the provider.https://jeff.noxon.cc/2014/06/16/testdisk-data-recovery-on-os-x/Tue, 17 Jun 2014 03:08:22 +0000jeff@noxon.cc (Jeff Noxon)https://jeff.noxon.cc/2014/06/16/testdisk-data-recovery-on-os-x/One of the 4TB external USB hard drives I use for local backups started randomly disconnecting a few days ago. Today it failed completely. It’s a Seagate Backup Plus model, where the bottom of the enclosure consists of a small, removable shim that contains the USB & power connections and the USB to SATA converter chip. After trying different USB ports and cables without success, I decided to hook up the drive directly using SATA.https://jeff.noxon.cc/2014/05/09/migrating-virtual-machines-from-amazon-ec2-to-google-compute-engine/Fri, 09 May 2014 17:51:23 +0000jeff@noxon.cc (Jeff Noxon)https://jeff.noxon.cc/2014/05/09/migrating-virtual-machines-from-amazon-ec2-to-google-compute-engine/My Amazon EC2 discount contract is almost up, and I’ve been playing with Google Compute Engine (GCE). Initial impressions are that it’s faster and costs less money, particularly if you don’t want to pay up-front for EC2 reserved instances. Google’s web console is more modern than Amazon’s, though slightly less sophisticated. Google’s CLI tools are much faster and don’t require Java. Google’s API uses JSON instead of XML. In terms of capabilities, GCE is not as advanced as EC2, but it’s vastly more powerful than Linode, Digital Ocean, and the like.https://jeff.noxon.cc/2013/05/29/host-dropbox-public-files-on-your-own-domain-name/Thu, 30 May 2013 02:05:27 +0000jeff@noxon.cc (Jeff Noxon)https://jeff.noxon.cc/2013/05/29/host-dropbox-public-files-on-your-own-domain-name/I’ve been using a Dropbox public folder and some Apache trickery to share files directly from Dropbox on my own domain at pub.noxon.cc. Dropbox is drag-and-drop file sharing at its finest, and by sharing my files on my own domain instead of on dl.dropboxusercontent.com, my files are accessible to corporate folks who would otherwise find themselves blocked by an over-zealous web filter. Last but not least, if one of my files becomes too popular, Dropbox won’t shut down my account.