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I use Octopress to create a number of sites that I host on different domains. I always seem to have problems updating my Octopress site directories to the latest version of Octopress. In particular I keep losing the changes I have made to site colors and fonts. The updating has been further complicated on OS X 10.9 Mavericks as there is a problem when using Safari to preview sites via http://localhost. Combining the work of others with my own, I have finally worked out a way that I can make the Octopress update on Mavericks and restore my color and font changes.

I want a way to share bookmarks between user accounts across different systems. While I generally achieve this using iCloud for Safari or Sync for Firefox there are some use cases where this is not convenient nor appropriate. ownCloud provides a bookmark sharing service so I thought I would give it a try. This blog post describes my steps setting up ownCloud on a subdomain hosted on Dreamhost. Note the caveats about using ownCloud on Dreamhost in the Dreamhost wiki.

This post describes how to create a Lubuntu-based virtual machine (VM) to be used when teaching of computer forensic analysis and investigation. The post discusses the background to the use of the VM, how the VM is created in VMware Fusion, and how Sleuthkit and other Linux-based utilities are installed. The post finishes with some suggestions on how the VM issued in class can be configured for the classroom teaching computers.

I started this journey looking for a means to create a blog, in an OS X and iOS centric environment, that didn’t involve using Wordpress or having to edit HTML directly (if I could help it.) That lead me to finding Octopress and in order to use Octopress I discovered Markdown and git. In this blog post I describe the processes I have for creating, editing, deploying, managing and controlling content for my Octopress blogs.

For those of you that don’t realize it but care, this site is created using Octopress from the text-based content that I write using the Markdown syntax. And those of you that realize this is a site created using Octopress will know that I use Markdown syntax in the text-based content that I create for the posts.

GoSquared provides widgets for use with Panic’s iPad Status Board app and GoSquared also provide a free account for a single website. So I thought I would give their service a try using this Octopress site and Panic’s Status Board app.

Individually checking each blog on the growing list of blogs that I follow was becoming tedious. So I thought I would use RSS feeds to get notified when new articles appeared. Within days of that epiphany, as I’m looking for a means to implement a solution, fellow CALUG member Chuck Frain posted about TT-RSS as a potential solution to Google’s announced closure of Google Reader. So I thought I would give TT-RSS a try.

I run OS X Server on my network and want to use ClamAV as my anti-virus software. ClamAV comes with OS X Server but is only enabled automatically if you run the Mail server. So I configured OS X Server to use ClamAV by manually enabling it.

I run OS X Server on my network and want to use ClamAV as my anti-virus software. ClamAV comes with OS X Server but is only enabled automatically if you run the Mail server. So I configured OS X Server to use ClamAV by manually enabling it.

This is a reposting of my blog post from systeminterrupt.net which is the site created using Octopress running on an OpenBSD workstation in the manner described here.