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Engineering a Better Blog: Our Move to Hugo

Routerjockey has transitioned to Hugo, a fast and flexible static site generator. Hugo utilizes a straightforward, markdown-like syntax for content creation, and has a robust …

PCAP PCAP PCAP – Changes to RJ Store

I made a couple changes to the RouterJockey store this week and I wanted to make sure I got the word out. Previously the store worked in sprints that I tried to open up 2-3x a …

PCAP t-shirts just in time for CLUS17

Hey guys, I just wanted to drop a quick note to let you know that I’ve relaunched my teespring shirt campaigns with enough time that you should get your orders before Cisco Live US …

Site Upgrades for September 2015

First, I want to apologize for not doing my job. Over the past couple years I’ve let this site become slightly stagnant. I won’t attempt to make excuses, but I will say that I’m in …

RouterJockey is launching a clothing line?!?!???

Ok maybe that title is a bit grandiose… But due to the great response I received Friday morning from the launch of the original PCAP shirt, and the IPv6 follow-up, I decided to …

PCAP or it didn’t happen…. The t-shirt!

Some days I don’t know why I do things… But last night I was playing around with creating a PCAP meme when my friend Josh Kittle said he’d be interested in a t-shirt like that. I …

Binary Metal Guitar

Thank you Ed for sharing the video the led me to find this video. It's a national treasure for those of us that appreciate binary. And if you appreciate metal, or music in general …

Vendor PSA: Words and Phrases to Avoid in Presentations

Over the years IT professionals have sat through countless presentations, conference calls, and keynotes. We’ve been preached too, explained “the problem”, and forced to bear …

Fixing iMessage on Hackintosh

Mid December 2012 Apple shut down the Messages Beta for Lion, soon after many hackintosh users started noticing issues with signing into iMessage. At some point in time, people far …

Public Service Announcement for Engineers

We all know how stressful our jobs can be. And we certainly know about our own hot button issues that press on the nerves in our brain, resulting in great pain and agony which in …

iPhone – Rock App Causing Devistation

Recently, an update to all jailbroken phones could of caused major damage to anyone who uses Rock… There were several community updates in the last few days due to the iPad and new …

The Holy Hackintosh Build

This is a follow up to my previous Hackintosh post chronicling the build and setup of my ‘Hack Pro’. My original goal was to build a Mac Pro clone using off the shelf parts, with …

The Road to Hack…intosh

Over the past couple months, the lack of desktop here at home has driven me up the wall. Turning to my laptop time and time again, hooking it up to an external monitor while …

Snow Leopard – The What It Broke Edition (updated)

Snow Leopard was released on August 28th, and at 1:37pm I received my copy and proceeded to install it like a well trained puppy. After installing, I think I was more obsessed with …

Setting up Apple Filing Protocol and Bonjour under Debian

Got a Mac ? Got a Linux box that you use as a file server on your home network? Sick of problems with samba? So was I, until today when I decided to figure out how to setup Apple …

Usefull OS X Eject Key Shortcuts

Recently, I was using one of my custom short cuts and fat fingered the F12 key on my laptop… What resulted was my screen shutting off. Mystified, I began searching for standard OS …

Google Voice Widget for OS X ‘s dashboard

Seriously… Why haven’t we seen this yet? This is the perfect application for the dashboard. Send text messages to your friends / family from the comfort of your computer without …

OS X Leopard Hacks

Here are a few settings you can change using the OS X defaults command to access some system parameters. As always, proceed with caution, and don’t mess with things of which …

Web Searches via Quicksilver

Everyone does a fair amount of googling these days, but any network engineer can tell you that a quick ARIN whois search can be invalueable. I know I end up there quite often. …

Fixing Vista Partition Error Messages when using Bootcamp

So, I had to reinstall Vista on my mac today — hadn’t touched it since I moved onto the Late 08 model… and once again, I started getting the common partition errors while Vista …

Cmd + Tab Replacement for Mac

PullTab is no longer maintained or supported. I’ve removed broken links within this article…. I’ve never liked the Mac OS X Command Tab application specific switching style… today, …

the road to Mac

I’ve been pondering it for quite some time, but yes now I have switched to Mac. I purchased a new 2.5ghz, 4gb of Ram, 15″ Macbook Pro. Purchased the 320gb 7200rpm hard drive …

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