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The price of Things

What is the price of things in 2021 really? At a coffee shop (Morgan’s Blouberg): A flat white single/double is: R27/R30 A toasted chicken mayo with small chips: R50 A pub: Rock Star Diner = Black label draught 500ml: R45 Carlyle’s on Derry = Black label draught 500ml: R42.5 A burger: Shwarma Express = A […]

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Installing python3.9 on ubuntu 20.04 from source

I’ve found installing python from source on ubuntu just makes your life easier. Python depends on a few system binaries and linked libraries so you need to ensure they are present first. sudo apt install software-properties-common build-essential \ libreadline-gplv2-dev libncursesw5-dev libssl-dev libsqlite3-dev \ tk-dev libgdbm-dev libc6-dev libbz2-dev libncurses-dev libgdbm-dev \ libpcap-dev libexpat1-dev libffi-dev liblzma-dev libgdbm-compat-dev […]

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Mount external hd permanently on raspberry pi

The best tutorial to use for mounting an external Hard Drive permanently on your rspberry pi is on raspberrypi.org documentation List all the disk partitions sudo lsblk -o UUID,NAME,FSTYPE,SIZE,MOUNTPOINT,LABEL,MODEL Identify the name of the disk partition (eg. sda1) Install the relevant storage driver for your FSTYPE (eg. exfat-fuse or ntfs-3g) – usually already install on […]

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Raspberry Pi dedicated bitcoin node with Ubuntu ARM Instructions

In this post, a bitcoin node is setup with a raspberry pi and Ubuntu OS. Requirements Raspberry Pi with 4Gb or more External hardrive 500Gb 1 TB SD card reader Update Feb 2022: Best to Use a 1TB Harddrive as the blockchain has grown in size Installing Ubuntu Server Use these instructions to Install ubuntu […]

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Ansible Juniper Junos modules do not work on old Juniper SRX versions

I tested some ansible junos modules on an old SRX version. Model: srx220h2 Version: 12.1X44-D35.5 I have found that junos_command works, but the others always give a timeout error. Even with a 240 second ansible_command_timeout. The error is: The error was: ansible.module_utils.connection.ConnectionError: b’command timeout triggered, timeout value is 240 secs.\nSee the timeout setting options in […]