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Frack You Nvidia

Why ? I am currently using Ubuntu 1604 as the OS on my laptop. It generally works well apart from one thing ... The FRACKING NVIDIA DRIVERS. Nvidia you can go and die in a pit fire. At least 3 or 4 times in the last 6 months the driver update has stopped the system from booting. It gets to a...

Controlling Vagrant Box Management IP

One of the quirks of Vagrants Virtualbox provider is you cannot configure the IP address of the management interface. It's a core design principal of the project that the management interface IP of a box is configured via DHCP. The Virtualbox provider uses port forwarding with a NAT network...

Linux Networking

Configuring network components in linux can differ from distribution to distribution. I usually find myself searching for the information found here so this is part documentation for me and part blog post for anyone else who cares to read past the introduction. This post covers various...

Ansible AWX Part 1

Ansible AWX is the upstream open source project to Ansible Tower. This is the first part of a series on Ansible AWX. In this part we will install Ansible AWX. Code versions used for this post Centos 7 - minimal 1705.02 (vagrant box) Python - 2.7.13 Ansible - 2.4.0 docker - 1.12.6 ...

Ruby Quick Reference

Best Practices Ruby Style Guide Rails Testing Best Practices Comment Variable String Stings are mutable in Ruby HERE Doc HERE are used for multi-line strings Symbol Symbols are similar to strings except they are immutable Integer Boolean Array Hash # New syntax - Ruby >= 1.9 For Loop #...continue reading

NMAP Quick Reference

NMAP is a tool for network discovery and auditing. This is not a comprehensive tutorial, only a quick reference source. Consult the man pages and/or documentation for indepth explanation of commands. Port Scan Top Ports Scan the top N number of ports cmd nmap --top-ports 10 www.google.com UDP...

Netcat Quick Reference

Netcat is a utility for checking open ports. It has more flexibility than using the telnet command and can be used with scripts more easily. This is not a comprehensive tutorial, only a quick reference source. Consult the man pages and/or documentation for indepth explanation of commands. I...