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Install Debian on your Mac using Parallels

This post describes how to Install Debian on your Mac using Parallels. To be more specific, we’ll install Debian 11 (Bullseye) onto a virtual machine (VM) deployed on an Apple Silicon-powered MacBook Pro (M1, M1 Pro, M1 Max).

Kevin


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Server-to-Server Authentication with Salesforce

This post will help you understand how to integrate a server with the Salesforce API. We will use the OAuth 2.0 JSON Web Token (JWT) bearer flow for this use case. This authorization flow uses a private key to sign an authorization token and requires you to approve the API client (i.e.,

Kevin


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Netfilter Tables Cheat Sheet

This post is a cheat sheet describing some of the basic commands used to configure Netfilter Tables – nftables – using the nft command-line utility. Netfilter Table Structure Netfilter tables are organized hierarchically.

Kevin


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Installing Folding@home on Ubuntu Desktop

This post describes how to install the Folding@home (read “folding at home”) software package on Ubuntu Desktop (using a GUI!). That package includes FAHClient, FAHControl, and FAHViewer.

Kevin


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Making an HTTP GET Request with Rust

This post describes how to implement a simple HTTP GET request with Rust using the reqwest crate. We base our example on the Make a HTTP GET request article from the Rust Cookbook. That article, though, seems to be out of date, and I could not compile the sample code as-is.

Kevin


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