Homelab & Misc

Homelab & Misc

Shameless plug: the RouterJockey store is back

So… the merch store is back. Don’t act surprised.

2026.04.23 · 2 min
Homelab & Misc

Engineering a Better Blog: Our Move to Hugo

Routerjockey has transitioned to Hugo, a fast and flexible static site generator.

2024.02.09 · 5 min
Homelab & Misc

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.

2017.08.16 · 1 min
Homelab & Misc

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 …

2017.04.20 · 1 min
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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.

2015.09.19 · 2 min
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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 …

2015.09.11 · 1 min
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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.

2015.09.11 · 1 min
Homelab & Misc

Binary Metal Guitar

Thank you Ed Koczan for sharing the video that led me to find this video. It’s a national treasure for those of us that appreciate binary.

2015.02.03 · 1 min
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Vendor PSA: Words and Phrases to Avoid in Presentations

Over the years IT professionals have sat through countless presentations, conference calls, and keynotes.

2013.06.20 · 2 min
Homelab & Misc

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.

2013.01.23 · 2 min
Homelab & Misc

Public Service Announcement for Engineers

We all know how stressful our jobs can be.

2011.03.14 · 2 min
Homelab & Misc

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 …

2010.05.15 · 3 min
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The Holy Hackintosh Build

This is a follow up to my previous Hackintosh post chronicling the build and setup of my ‘Hack Pro’.

2010.02.23 · 6 min
Homelab & Misc

The Road to Hack…intosh

Over the past couple months, the lack of desktop here at home has driven me up the wall.

2010.02.09 · 3 min
Homelab & Misc

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.

2009.09.04 · 2 min
Homelab & Misc

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?

2009.08.28 · 7 min
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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.

2009.08.16 · 1 min
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Google Voice Widget for OS X ‘s dashboard

Seriously… Why haven’t we seen this yet? This is the perfect application for the dashboard.

2009.08.03 · 1 min
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OS X Leopard Hacks

Here are a few settings you can change using the OS X defaults command to access some system parameters.

2009.06.11 · 2 min
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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.

2008.12.02 · 2 min
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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 …

2008.12.01 · 1 min
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Cmd + Tab Replacement for Mac

PullTab is no longer maintained or supported. I’ve removed broken links within this article….

2008.11.30 · 2 min
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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.

2008.11.05 · 3 min