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IgnoreUnknown not working as expected?

Michał MargulaLeave a comment
Posted in linux macTagged

Sometimes we need to share our ~/.ssh/config with other host (or even a docker container) that might not be understanding all the options. The usual case is with UseKeychain on MacOS that won’t work on Linux. To fix that we add IgnoreUnknown UseKeychain and move on.

If you have multiple Host entries in the config, it might happen you will need for multiple entries. But adding it per host will just confuse SSH and you will end up with errors even if IgnoreUnknown is used for each of that.

Solution to this is to move IgnoreUnknown to the top of the config file, outside any host scope. So instead of

Host alpha
  IgnoreUnknown UseKeychain
  User alchemyx
Host beta
  IgnoreUnknown UseKeychain
  User root

just use

IgnoreUnknown UseKeychain
Host alpha
  User alchemyx
Host beta
  User root

Why I switched to WordPress?

Michał MargulaLeave a comment
Posted in generalTagged

I was quite fond of my Jekyll setup, but… I have moved between multiple workstations in short period of time. Every time I did it I had to setup build chain for Jekyll from scratch again. Then I had to remind myself how to publish new entry (because it involved building it locally and then rsyncing out to the server). And it was all for tiny blog of no great importance. So it was basically hindering my publication process and on many occasions I decided not to post as it was taking too much time and usually I had some other failures. The straw that broke camel back was moving to MacOS where I had tons of issues with Ruby and Jekyll dependencies. So I finally gave up and spun up just WordPress container. It took me like 2 hours to move all entries across including import of media. And it was great opportunity to polish entries and remove some typos.

And probably many of you will tell my I could’ve fixed my publication process and stayed with Jekyll but I figured out it is not the tool important but the content (how arrogant!). So I hope you will enjoy your stay no matter the platform.

Microsoft Windows 10 ISO doesn’t work with Rufus anymore

Michał MargulaLeave a comment
Posted in windowsTagged

Rufus is a great tool to create bootable USB drives and Windows To Go installations. Unfortunately at some point Microsoft changed something and ISO obtained with Media Creation Tool won’t work – it is described on Rufus GitHub page. To fix it just go to the download page using browser with fake User-Agent or download it under Linux or other non-Microsoft operating system. You don’t need valid product key for that.