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Continue ReadingAdding the Oracle modules for Python on Linux
You’re going to need to get a few libraries here: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/linuxx86-64soft-092277.html. RHEL 7 oracle-instantclient12.2-basic-12.2.0.1.0-1.x86_64.rpm oracle-instantclient12.2-basiclite-12.2.0.1.0-1.x86_64.rpm oracle-instantclient12.2-jdbc-12.2.0.1.0-1.x86_64.rpm oracle-instantclient12.2-sqlplus-12.2.0.1.0-1.x86_64.rpm oracle-instantclient12.2-odbc-12.2.0.1.0-1.x86_64.rpm RHEL 6 oracle-instantclient11.2-basic-11.2.0.4.0-1.x86_64.rpm oracle-instantclient11.2-basiclite-11.2.0.4.0-1.x86_64.rpm oracle-instantclient11.2-jdbc-11.2.0.4.0-1.x86_64.rpm oracle-instantclient11.2-sqlplus-11.2.0.4.0-1.x86_64.rpm oracle-instantclient11.2-devel-11.2.0.4.0-1.x86_64.rpm oracle-instantclient11.2-odbc-11.2.0.4.0-1.x86_64.rpm oracle-instantclient11.2-tools-11.2.0.4.0-1.x86_64.rpm Now you’ll need to add cx_Oracle: https://oracle.github.io/python-cx_Oracle/ if you are having issues with pip, you can try this link : https://pypi.python.org/pypi/cx_Oracle/5.3 Now you can start coding Python to […]
Continue ReadingBirthday – yearly reflection
It’s that time of year again. My Birthday was yesterday – I’m 47 years old now. For many years I avoided my birthday. It depressed me. I viewed it as losing my youth and available opportunities – like “Oh No!! I’m too old to join the military” or “I can’t be a member of the […]
Continue ReadingTHE TOP 5 REGRETS OF THE DYING
THE TOP 5 REGRETS OF THE DYING Bronnie Ware is a nurse who spent 7 years working at the bedside of the elderly and dying. During that time she had many deep conversations about life with her patients. Many of the people she talked to had the same regrets when looking back at their lives. […]
Continue ReadingMedia Spin
This is a great documentary on Media Spin. I listed it under the Cybersecurity tag for propaganda
Continue ReadingAnsible – perform an action ONLY if something changes
I found this article: “Ansible – Only do something if another action changed” Great article – In my case I wanted to change the /etc/postfix/main.cf file on a lot of my servers. When the file changes, you have to restart the postfix service. I was able to use the “register” directive as described in the […]
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A cautionary tale of automation
Joyent, a cloud provider outlines what caused a major outage: https://www.joyent.com/blog/postmortem-for-outage-of-us-east-1-may-27-2014 I’m a huge fan of automation. I started about 20 years ago scripting common tasks that I performed as part of my day to day job. It made my life easier. For instance, at one job, instead of going through the 15 steps of […]
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