While seeking out servers that needed to be patched for the WannaCry Ransomware attack yesterday, I ran a nmap scan on most of my company subnets. The nmap output looks like this: Nmap scan report for prelude.nyc.domain.com (172.16.0.9) Host is up (0.00046s latency). Not shown: 993 closed ports PORT STATE SERVICE 22/tcp open ssh 111/tcp […]
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The Dilbert Principle: A Cubicle’s-Eye View of Bosses, Meetings, Management Fads & Other Workplace Afflictions
you can read the entire book right here: https://www.slideshare.net/swatiupadhyay3956/the-dilbert-principle-scott-adams or you can help out Scott Adams a little and buy it here on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Dilbert-Principle-Cubicles-Eye-Management-Afflictions/dp/0887308589 Either way, its written in 1997 and it still holds up.
Continue ReadingRHEL 7 – How-To enable EPEL packages
make sure you are correctly configured: subscription-manager list –consumed you may need to add a subscription: subscription-manager register –auto-attach –force if everything is OK: subscription-manager repos –enable rhel-7-server-extras-rpms subscription-manager repos –enable rhel-7-server-optional-rpms subscription-manager repos –enable rhel-7-server-rpms subscription-manager repos –enable rhel-ha-for-rhel-7-server-rpms
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Breakthrough by Michael C. Grumley
“Breakthrough” by Michael C. Grumley. Start reading it for free: http://a.co/f40KnsL – I initially thought I knew where this book was going .. then I didn’t. There are a few plot changes and multiple story lines that kept me guessing. The character development was also good. It’s my first book by this author, and I’ll […]
Continue ReadingRe-Writing BSD 4.4 Shell Commands: cat
A new series on youtube is attempting to “re-write” UNIX Commands like it’s 1994. I think he’s doing a great job so far. Below is the first installation. I just subscribed to his channel and can’t wait till the next installations. The author talks about parsing C command line arguments “the old school way”. I’m […]
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‘Zen And The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance’ Author Robert M. Pirsig Dies At 88 : The Two-Way : NPR
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/04/24/525443040/-zen-and-the-art-of-motorcycle-maintenance-author-robert-m-pirsig-dies-at-88 Zen is a wonderful book. Sorry to see him go, hopefully he has some Peace
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The Russian Assassin
I think this is a good early attempt by the author to capture a good spy novel. Jack Arbor (the author)could use a little more character development and write a bit more on the cold war KGB, but generally, I like where this series is going. I joined his mailing list. I’m looking forward to […]
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This is quite a bit easier in the set up than working with Oracle. Python comes with built in support for MySQL. For Oracle, I needed to download the drivers and support (Adding the Oracle modules for Python on Linux) import mysql.connector config = { ‘user’: ‘username’, ‘password’: ‘password’, ‘host’: ‘127.0.0.1’, ‘database’: ‘test’, ‘raise_on_warnings’: True, […]
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