Wednesday, September 13, 2017

Configuring Windows to use a PAC File or Proxy Server

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This post demonstrates configuring Windows to make use of a PAC file and/or Proxy server. These settings apply to a given user rather then a...
Sunday, July 23, 2017

Setting up Apache2 (a web server on which to host PAC files) on Ubuntu

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In this posting the steps to setup Apache2 on Ubuntu are reviewed. The reason for needing a web server (Apache2) is to host a PAC file. A P...
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Tuesday, July 18, 2017

OS/X Dock visible in full-screen VMWare Fusion

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A great many developers using Macs run VMWare Fusion in full screen mode. At times (for no apparent reason) OS/X's dock remains visible ...
Sunday, July 16, 2017

Windows: Testing if a remote port is open using Telnet

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In a previous post,  Opening an inbound port for an Ubuntu Virtual Machine on Azure , an inbound port was open on an Ubuntu virtual machine ...
Saturday, July 15, 2017

Testing if a remote port is open using BASH /dev/tcp/host/port

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In a previous post, Opening an inbound port for an Ubuntu Virtual Machine on Azure , an inbound port was open on an Ubuntu virtual machine (...
Saturday, July 8, 2017

Making Telnet Client available on Windows

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Telnet is a handy utility that allows a TCP/IP connection to be made to a host/port. Unlike ping or tracert which simply detect if a hosts ...
Tuesday, July 4, 2017

Linux, Unix and OS/X determining what shell is running

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When running a terminal window it is possible to determine the current shell by running the following from the command-line: echo $SHELL ...