Thursday, March 26, 2015

Windows cacls.exe cheatsheet

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The windows cacls.exe is a confusing, un-intuitive, and poorly documented tool . I'm recording a few of my more frequent examples here a...
Tuesday, March 24, 2015

[SOLVED] fatal error C1902: Program database manager mismatch; please check your installation

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I was running the Visual Studio compiler by ssh'ing into a cygwin SSH server running on windows and running "cmd /c msbuild" w...
Monday, March 23, 2015

Building a Windows Vagrant VM to use WinRM

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You basically have two options for talking to windows vagrant VMs. WinRM or SSH. For ssh you'll need to install cygwin's openssh s...

Switching a git checked-out repo from SSL to SSH

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Occasionally I'll clone a git repo (or a tool will do it for me) over SSL like this: $ git clone https://github.com/google/gxui.git Cl...
Wednesday, March 4, 2015

Install a OS X .dmg or .pkg from the commandline

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If you have a dmg, you need to attach it: hdiutil attach GPG_Suite-2015.02-b5-1161.dmg Then install it: sudo installer -pkg /Volumes/GPG\...
Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Packaging an existing virtualbox vm for use with vagrant

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It's not super-obvious from the vagrant documentation, but you can use the " vagrant package " command to package up an existi...
Friday, February 20, 2015

Workaround for broken vagrant up ssh "unsupported encryption type"

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Vagrant is still not playing nicely with SSH certificates loaded into ssh-agent . In my case this seemed to only be a problem during provis...