Tools

Though remote development is not available out of the box for Sublime Text, we can enable a form of it with the sublime-rsync-ssh package. This versatile plugin has many features and options, but this post will focus solely on syncing a single local folder to a remote folder. I recommend you peruse the README for more information. Prerequisites Sublime Text with macOS is used in the examples, but it’s still applicable for Windows and Linux....

Wireshark is the world’s most popular network analyzer. A network protocol analyzer is usually required to get the deepest visibility in determining network issues. Grabbing the newest Wireshark release for Windows and Mac OS X is easy enough. You just direct your web browser to the Wireshark site to grab it. Things can be a little trickier if using Linux. The Wireshark package listed with most Linux distribution repositories is usually a version or two behind the current stable release....

Cisco Router and Security Device Manager (SDM) is a Web-based device-management tool that enables you to deploy and manage the services on a Cisco IOS router. Even if you decide to do your initial configuration with the CLI, the Monitoring mode of SDM is a great way to display a graphical real-time pulse of the state of your router. The SDM application can run either as an application installed on your Windows PC or from the router’s flash thru the web browser....

I recently had an issue where I wanted to play a movie on one of my portable devices, but the file’s audio stream is encoded in the AC3 (Dolby Digital) format. But of course, the device doesn’t support AC3, so I need to convert it to a compatible format. Handbrake is my go-to tool for media file conversion, but it no longer supports output to XviD – specifically the AVI container....

I created a PowerShell advanced function that emulates the uptime command for Unix-like operating systems. The uptime command displays the current time, the length of time the system has been up, the number of users, and the load average of the system over the last 1, 5, and 15 minutes. uptime output: 21:33 up 7 days, 11:10, 2 users, load averages: 0.05 0.08 0.08 My function returns a custom PowerShell object, so we have the option to pass it to the pipeline for further processing and/or formatting....

I routinely google this task whenever I have to install or upgrade the VMware Tools on a Linux VM guest. I figure I would make a post for future reference. Ingredients used for this post: VMware ESX Server 4.0 Ubuntu Server 9.10 Steps Use the vSphere Client to connect to a vCenter Server or directly to an ESX host. Right-click the virtual machine and select Open Console. Log into Ubuntu with an administrative account....

This post is a guide on how to create a TFTP server for Cisco device configuration backups on Ubuntu 8.10. 1. Install atftpd. sudo apt-get install atftpd 2. Configure atftpd as a separate server and modify the tftpboot location. Modify the file with a text editor. sudo vim /etc/default/atftpd Set the configuration. USE_INETD=true -> USE_INETD=false /var/lib/tftpboot -> /srv/tftpboot Save and exit. 3. Initialize the new configuration. sudo invoke-rc.d atftpd start 4....