Category Archives: Operating Systems
asdf for Managing Multiple Tool Runtime Versions
If you read my prior blog posts, Managing Multiple Python Versions and Packages and Managing Multiple Python Installs and Packages with Pyenv and Pipenv, you’re aware of how I prior used Pyenv and Pipenv to install, manage, and use multiple … Continue reading →
Posted in Development Tools, Mac, Mac OS Ventura, Mac OS X Big Sur, Mac OS X Catalina, Mac OS X Mavericks, Mac OS X Mojave, Mac OS X Monterey, Mac OS X Yosemite, Operating Systems, Programming Languages, Python, Technology, Tips & Tricks, Utilities
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Tagged asdf Development Tools, MAC, Mac OS Ventura, Mac OS X Big Sur, Mac OS X Catalina, Mac OS X Mavericks, Mac OS X Mojave, Mac OS X Monterey, Mac OS X Yosemite, Operating Systems, Programming Languages, Python, runtime, runtimes, Technology, Tips & Tricks
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Managing Multiple Python Installs and Packages with Pyenv and Pipenv
I wrote a blog last year titled “Managing Multiple Python Versions and Packages.” In that blog post, I discussed how you can easily deploy and manage multiple python versions and packages without running into issues later on. Here I go … Continue reading →
Posted in Development Tools, Mac, Mac OS Ventura, Mac OS X Big Sur, Mac OS X Catalina, Mac OS X Mavericks, Mac OS X Mojave, Mac OS X Monterey, Mac OS X Yosemite, Operating Systems, Programming Languages, Python, Technology, Tips & Tricks
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Tagged Apple, homebrew, MAC, package, pip, pip3, pipenv, pyenv, Python, Python 2, Python 3, python package, python version, virtual, virtual environment
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Managing Multiple Python Versions and Packages
After spending a solid afternoon researching and working on deploying multiple Python versions and packages, I realized how much confusion and lack of authoritative posts exist on this subject. There are lots of opinions and suggestions out there which may … Continue reading →
Posted in Development Tools, Mac, Mac OS X Big Sur, Mac OS X Catalina, Mac OS X Mavericks, Mac OS X Mojave, Mac OS X Monterey, Mac OS X Yosemite, Operating Systems, Python, Technology, Tips & Tricks
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Tagged Apple, homebrew, MAC, package, pip, pip3, pipenv, pyenv, Python, Python 2, Python 3, python package, python version, virtual, virtual environment
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6WIND – From Data Plane Acceleration to Virtual Appliances
6WIND is an interesting company I’ve been following for some time now, initially out of curiosity, and then out of more curiosity :-). They first started as a networking software company claiming to solve performance challenges for software defined networks … Continue reading →
Posted in 6WIND, 6WIND, Dell, Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers, Linux, Network Architecture, Networking, Operating Systems, Servers, Technology, Virtualization and Cloud Computing
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Minecraft for $2.5 Billion – Yes, ‘the App’ is King
I’m still not completely over the shock from last November when I learned Microsoft had bought Mojang, the company behind Minecraft, for $2.5 billion dollars. Let me repeat that: “$2.5 BILLION”; you heard right. Markus Persson, the 35 year-old original … Continue reading →
Posted in Amazon, Business, Game Programming, Games, Mac OS X Yosemite, Networking, Operating Systems, PC, Programming Languages, Rack Space, Technology, Technology, Virtualization and Cloud Computing, VMware
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Security, Art of Hacking, & the Worst 2014 Security Breaches
Security is hot; no doubt about it. Consider the fact that between 2011 and 2013, venture investors put nearly $3 billion into cyber security companies, resulting in new funding for some 300 firms (Source: Thomson Reuters). Worldwide security software revenue … Continue reading →
Posted in Business, Hacks, Labs, Linux, Network Architecture, Network Security, Networking, Operating Systems, Programming Languages, Python, Red Hat Linux Enterprise, Security, Technology, Technology, Tips, Tips & Tricks, Windows
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Mac OS X: Java – “Application Blocked by Security Settings” Solution
Starting with Java 8 Update 20 (Java 8u20) and later versions the option to lower the security setting in the Java Console Panel to Medium has been removed. Prior, changing the setting to Medium would quickly resolve issues where certain … Continue reading →
Posted in HTML, Java, Mac OS X Yosemite, Programming Languages, Web Development
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Customize the Mac Terminal Shell Prompt in OS X Yosemite
The Mac prompt is defined by the ‘PS1’ environment variable which can be defined in the ‘.bash_profile’ hidden file. To customize your Mac Terminal Shell Prompt in OS X Yosemite, follow the below steps.
Posted in Mac OS X Yosemite, Operating Systems, Technology
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BASH Shell Scripting: Passing Arguments to a Python Script
Larry Wall: “Shell programming is a 1950s juke box …” In this short blog I write a small Python utility script to create directories and demonstrate how to utilize it and pass it arguments via BASH shell script. The functionality … Continue reading →
Posted in BASH Shell Scripting, Mac OS X Mavericks, Operating Systems, Programming Languages, Python, Technology
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Tagged BASH, BASH pass argument, BASH pass argument to command, BASH pass argument to python script, BASH pass argument to script, BASH Shell, Bash Shell Scripting, linux, MAC, Mac OS X, Mac OS X Mavericks, Mavericks, mkdir, OS X Mavericks, Python, Python 3, Python pass argument, Python pass arguments, python3, scripting, shell, shell script, shell scripting, Unix
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MariaDB and the Future of MySQL
As you may know by now, since the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle in 2009 for $7.4 billion, there has been some uncertainty in the industry on the future of MySQL which Sun Microsystems itself acquired for $1 billion … Continue reading →
Posted in Business, Databases, Fedora, Linux, MariaDB, openSUSE, Red Hat Linux Enterprise, Slackware, SUSE Linux Enterprise, Technology, Technology
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