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I started having some Apple Keychain issues after upgrading to Mac OS X El Capitan. At random, I would be asked to sign back into accounts that I am logged into through Internet Accounts in System Preferences. I thought it a minor issue but it became unavoidable though once El Capitan told me it couldn’t find my login Apple Keychain after logging in: Something related to the ’login’ Apple Keychain happened during the Mac OS X El Capitan upgrade process I’m assuming and after a reboot this morning everything went to hell in a hand basket it would seem. ...

Here’s a handy one-liner to grep multiple Ansible Vault files (like group_vars). All you need is an Ansible Vault password file (outside of your configuration repo, please) and a little bash. 1 ls -1 | while read N ; do echo -n $N: ; ansible-vault --vault-password-file ~/.ansible_vault view $N | grep <STRING> ; done

Tim Tebow was observed working out on a USC baseball field recently. Tebow’s throwing motion looks a little bit better but his agents are likely pressuring him to become a public speaker according to Only Gators

I’ve been messing around with Tiny Tiny RSS today. Upon discovering it I posted in their Google+ Community asking how other users implemented it and what they thought of a specific use case I had. I got some good responses and was quite appreciative of them. I opted, at the advice of those in the community, to setup Tiny Tiny RSS on Red Hat’s OpenShift and was pleasantly surprised by how the product Red Hat created. I even tweeted to the OpenShift Architect about it. All around a nice experience with Red Hat’s OpenShift. Optimally, if I could get Tiny Tiny RSS to place nice on OpenShift I’d probably bring more hardware into the house for the sole purpose of running it on dedicated, non-AWS hardware. ...

I routinely spin up CentOS virtual machines in VirtualBox. Sometimes they are temporary and others might be around for months. These seemingly throw away VMs utilize the CentOS minimal install ISO for speed of setup (I really should just build a standard starting point VM and clone it as needed but I digress). I understand that installing the VirtualBox guest additions is a nicety for some so you probably rarely do it. But, when I do need to install them, I always seem to forget everything that is needed by the VirtualBox guest additions; I am documenting them here for everyone’s benefit. ...