Author: farhan

I thought this was a hilarious video that depicted conference calls very well. Enjoy! 🙂

I recently accidentally messed up a Cisco 3750 switch while upgrading the firmware on it. I ended up with a non-booting switch with the typical fast flashing SYST light. After finding a computer old enough with a serial port I got to uploading the .bin image, but the at the default baud rate of 9600 the 12M or so bin file would have take quite some time. After searching on google I found out that the following IOS command would set a higher baud rate.

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set BAUD 115200

Still not fast enough, but an improvement. Some people have suggested using tftpdnld in rommon mode, but this was fast enough that I didn’t want to deal with rommon.

Remember to reset the baud rate after you are done.

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set BAUD 9600

I have published an updated version of the Play Button iTunes Patch that now correctly kills the remote control daemon after patching it. Thanks to @quicksnap for helping troubleshoot. Here is a link to the issue on github.

I am a big fan of the tmux terminal multiplexer when SSH’ing into any hosts. Definitely check it out if you don’t know about it. By default tmux is pretty bare, but you can use my current .tmux.conf as a reference. The configuration file below will essentially create labels for each terminal showing the currently running program.

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set-option -g default-terminal "xterm-256color"
#set-option -g default-terminal "screen-256color"

set-option -g status-fg white
set-option -g status-bg black
#set-option -g status-bg white

set-option -g prefix C-a
bind-key C-a last-window

#set-window-option -g mode-mouse on

setw -g window-status-current-attr underscore

set -g status-keys vi
setw -g mode-keys vi

Lol, I saw this Samsung ad shared on numerous websites. Seriously, is Samsung promoting stalking now? This is a waste of marketing dollars.

Yesterday I got a package from Amazon that I had requested overnight shipping on. At first sight it wasn’t anything unexpected, but when I opened the box I was surprised. I was surprised because along with the overnight shipped item, in a different session, I had also ordered another item with regular Amazon Prime shipping. To my surprise both the items were shipped overnight in the same box. Now that’s just awesome! Go you, Amazon!

OK, one more Apple event scheduled for October 22nd. I am really hoping that we’ll have new MacBook Pros announced this time. New iPads are pretty much guaranteed, but come on Apple, I want to upgrade my MBP (need Haswell)!

Apple has released the Golden Master OS X Mavericks to developers. I am hoping that this means that the new MacBook Pro will be released soon. I have been waiting for too long to upgrade my MBP!