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An Overview of Doping in Road Cycling and Good Books to Read

A topic I have become more interested in over the years is Road Cycling and doping. As you watch videos on youtube and road cycling events it becomes clear that some if not most astounding outcomes were a result of external biological enhancements from drugs. Of course – the nature of the topic – is […]

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Initial Setup of a Ubuntu 20.04 VM with Compiled Python 3.10

Assuming you have logged in as root with a password Creating a non-root User adduser ubuntu usermod -aG sudo ubuntu Add your SSH key to the new User ssh-copy-id ubuntu@ ssh ubuntu@ Enabling Firewall sudo ufw app list sudo ufw status Disable root login and password based login sudo vim /etc/ssh/sshd_config Uncomment and set: PasswordAuthentication […]

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Networking

Best bang for buck home router in south africa

I have used about 4 different home routers in my time from various brands: D-Link, TP-link and Mikrotik. So far the most cost effective for the feature set is the mikrotik hap ac2. Currently it is R600 on takealot. Although even at R1000 I think it kills the competition. Note: This router is for fibre […]

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Using ansible and vault to securely ssh into many vms

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road cycling

The Best (Steepest) Road Bike Climbs in Cape Town

This is a list of the Best (Steepest) Road Bike Climbs in Cape Town (Western cape), that can be considered safe enough provided you are wearing bright and reflective clothing. 1. Gordan’s bay pass (3.64km 7.7%) Unfortunately there is a gate for the Cape town water works – that prevents cyclists from going the full […]