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HOWTO: Run multiple Zwift sessions on the same PC (Windows only)

Many people have asked me to write this up and I’m happy to be the first person to push Zwift this far with multiple, simultaneous sessions. I can say with confidence that up to this point, I’m actually the only person who has this working correctly without overwriting or clobbering critical logs and data files. […]

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  2. HOWTO: Configure Windows to remember Zwift application passwords This will be a quick-n-dirty post to solve a very...
  3. Using fdupes to Solve the Data Duplication Problem: I’ve got some dupes! Well, 11.6 hours later after scanning the NAS with fdupes,...

Syndicated 2015-12-29 07:26:44 from random neuron misfires

HOWTO: Correct and avoid clock skew on Windows and OS X platforms

This has come up a lot recently in the context of Zwift rides and races, becasue many rider’s PC and Mac gaming rigs are suffering clock skew. In short, it can be defined as: “Clock skew is when the clock arrives at different points of the circuit at different times due to the distance, capacitance […]

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Syndicated 2015-12-17 00:44:10 from random neuron misfires

HOWTO: Fully automated Zwift login on Mac OS X

Quite a few riders on the Facebook Zwift Riders group have expressed an interest in this, so I decided to take a couple of hours, learn AppleScript and knock this out. Done! What this code does, is allows you to create a single icon that will log you into Zwift, with no human interaction needed. […]

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Syndicated 2015-12-04 02:43:29 from random neuron misfires

HOWTO: Configure Windows to remember Zwift application passwords

This will be a quick-n-dirty post to solve a very tactical problem: This topic has been talked about dozens to hundreds of times in the Zwift Riders Facebook group and on the Zwift Support area through their Feature Request tracker. It’s become enough of an itch, that I decided to write up this post to […]

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Syndicated 2015-12-03 04:41:07 from random neuron misfires

2015 Tour de France Stages Mapped and Ready

I recently noticed that not a lot of people have mapped the 2015 Tour de France yet, as it’s still pretty early. But I decided to start putting the routes together, road by road, turn by turn, lane change by lane change, as close to accurate as I could find them. I’ll continue to update […]

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Syndicated 2015-06-08 02:19:35 from random neuron misfires

HOWTO: Enable Docker API through firewalld on CentOS 7.x (el7)

Playing more and more with Docker across multiple Linux distributions has taught me that not all Linux distributions are treated the same. There’s a discord right now in the Linux community about systemd vs. SysV init. In our example, CentOS 7.x uses systemd, where all system services are spawned and started. I am using this […]

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Syndicated 2015-01-20 05:04:14 from random neuron misfires

Tuesday Tip: rsync Command to Include Only Specific Files

I find myself using rsync a lot, both for moving data around, for creating backups using rsnapshot (yes, even on Windows!) and for mirroring public Open Source projects and repositories. I used to create all sorts of filters and scripts to make sure I was getting only the files I wanted and needed, but I […]

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Syndicated 2015-01-06 19:35:18 from random neuron misfires

HOWTO: Run boot2docker in VMware Fusion and ESXi with Shipyard to Manage Your Containers

This took me awhile to piece together, and I had to go direct to the maintainers of several of these components to get clarity on why some things worked, while others did not, even following the explicit instructions. Here, I present the 100% working HOWTO: I started with a post I found written by someone […]

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Syndicated 2015-01-03 06:10:11 from random neuron misfires

SOLVED: Installing VMware Tools in Ubuntu 5.04 under ESXi

It may seem odd, that it’s almost 2015, and I’m writing a post describing how to install VMware Tools inside Ubuntu 5.04, a Linux distribution that was released on April 8th, 2005 and went End of Life on October 31, 2006. I run a home lab here with a number of test machines (all VMs […]

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Syndicated 2014-12-27 03:20:56 from random neuron misfires

HOWTO: Remove the “Year in Review” Posts from your Facebook Wall

It’s annoying. It’s Facebook. We all learn to either love or hate it, but there are ways to make the annoying parts of it go away. The most-recent annoyance is Facebook’s compulsion to add the “Year in Review” posts from people to your Facebook wall. Thankfully I’ve never been asked to fill mine out, but […]

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Syndicated 2014-12-26 13:51:30 from random neuron misfires

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