Disabling Multi-Touch Swipe in Chrome on OSX to Prevent Back and Forward Actions

This is a nifty little tidbit that could have saved me many a lost page or form fill in Chrome.  If you have the Swipe configured for OSX (as I do), it also works as the back and forward button in your Chrome browser.  Swipe to go back sounds like a great idea, right? Right.  … Read more

Suspend and Resume Vagrant Boxes in Bulk in OSX and Linux

As a regular user of Vagrant in conjunction with VirtualBox for building and deploying lab environments, I often have situations where I have multiple virtual instances running at a time. The challenge with that is that sometimes my multi-node labs are having to be suspended and resumed to save on resources. It’s not difficult, but … Read more

Deploying the VMware vCenter Virtual Appliance on OSX

For those who want to leverage VMware vCenter for your lab, but you are running on Mac OSX with VMware Fusion, there are a couple of quick steps to get you working. The secondary title to this article could really be “How to deploy an OVF template on VMware Fusion”, but the specific goal I’m … Read more