bitsurgeon

Install Nvidia Driver on Ubuntu 18.04.3

Secure Boot

This section applies to machines with Secure Boot, such as ThinkPad.

1. Before installation, switch to "Discrete Graphics" in BIOS, if both Intel and Nvidia graphics are present.
2. During installation, make sure to select the "Install third-party software for graphics and Wi-Fi hardware and addition media formats" in "Updates and other software" screen.
3. Select "Configure Secure Boot", and set password.
4. Continue Ubuntu installation as normal.

eqmcc

apiVersion: configuration.konghq.com/v1
kind: KongConsumer
metadata:
  name: consumer1
  namespace: nginx-kong-test
username: consumer1

---
apiVersion: configuration.konghq.com/v1
kind: KongConsumer

lukeplausin

# Count total EBS based storage in AWS
aws ec2 describe-volumes | jq "[.Volumes[].Size] | add"
# Count total EBS storage with a tag filter
aws ec2 describe-volumes --filters "Name=tag:Name,Values=CloudEndure Volume qjenc" | jq "[.Volumes[].Size] | add"
# Describe instances concisely
aws ec2 describe-instances | jq '[.Reservations | .[] | .Instances | .[] | {InstanceId: .InstanceId, State: .State, SubnetId: .SubnetId, VpcId: .VpcId, Name: (.Tags[]|select(.Key=="Name")|.Value)}]'
# Wait until $instance_id is running and then immediately stop it again
aws ec2 wait instance-running --instance-id $instance_id && aws ec2 stop-instances --instance-id $instance_id

# Get 10th instance in the account

toolmantim

#!/bin/bash

# Outputs a pipeline that targets agents that have the same 'name' meta-data
# value as the step that does the pipeline upload. This means that all the
# steps will run on the same agent machine, assuming that the 'name' meta-data
# value is unique to each agent.
#
# Each agent needs to be configured with meta-data like so:
#
# meta-data="name=<unique-name>"

heri16

#@ /etc/quagga/bgpd.conf (Centos & Ubuntu)

hostname <Local OS hostname>
password <Any random phrase>
enable password <Any random phrase>
!
log file /var/log/quagga/bgpd
!debug bgp events
!debug bgp zebra
debug bgp updates

andrealbinop

Setup modern.ie vagrant boxes

Since modern.ie released vagrant boxes, it' no longer necessary to manually import the ova file to virtualbox, as mentioned here.

However, the guys at modern.ie didn't configured the box to work with WinRM. This how-to addresses that, presenting steps to proper repackage these boxes, adding WinRM support. Additionally configures chocolatey package manager and puppet provisioner.

Pre-requisites

branneman

Better local require() paths for Node.js

Problem

When the directory structure of your Node.js application (not library!) has some depth, you end up with a lot of annoying relative paths in your require calls like:

const Article = require('../../../../app/models/article');

Those suck for maintenance and they're ugly.

Possible solutions

englishm

#!/bin/bash

# This snippet should hypothetically allow a totally unattended
# download of Apple's Xcode. After sourcing credentials from ENV,
# the script simulates a login, and downloads the XCode DMG.
# Based on: https://gist.github.com/cdata/817672

source /vagrant/apple_creds.sh
login="$ADC_LOGIN"
password="$ADC_PASSWORD"

rgreenjr

-- show running queries (pre 9.2)
SELECT procpid, age(clock_timestamp(), query_start), usename, current_query 
FROM pg_stat_activity 
WHERE current_query != '<IDLE>' AND current_query NOT ILIKE '%pg_stat_activity%' 
ORDER BY query_start desc;

-- show running queries (9.2)
SELECT pid, age(clock_timestamp(), query_start), usename, query 
FROM pg_stat_activity 
WHERE query != '<IDLE>' AND query NOT ILIKE '%pg_stat_activity%' 

jgn

Stuff I learned about Puppet

Chef vs Puppet

• My blink is that in 2012 Puppet is safer and more productive.
• Puppet is declarative, Chef procedural.
• Puppet brings system into compliance (state), Chef "does" things (recipes).
• Puppet has strong security practices; Chef has a toleration for loose security in Chef itself.
• Puppet makes it very hard to get "outside the lines" or violate its strong opinions; in Chef this is routine.