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juniper

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 […]

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book reviews Cloud Server

97 Things every Cloud Engineer should Know – Summarised Notes

As with the other post on 97 things every developer should know, this is not a hard and fast list. It is a bit of interesting info from people in the industry that may or may not have the required experience and may be in a specific part of the business not relevant to you. […]

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book reviews

Ranking of some Star Wars Books

Path of Destruction (Star Wars: Darth Bane, #1) Darth Plagueis (Star Wars Legends) Thrawn (Star Wars: Thrawn, #1) Rule of Two (Star Wars: Darth Bane, #2) Master and Apprentice Dynasty of Evil (Star Wars: Darth Bane, #3) Heir to the Empire (Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy, #1) Shatterpoint (Star Wars: Clone Wars #1) Into the […]

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django

Displaying a network chart graph diagram on a Django site

There is often a case for improving the understanding of things with visualisations. Python provides a number of libraries to create great visualisations – however they often focus on a data science approach – scripts and jupyter notebooks. What we want is the visualisations to be easily accessible through a django website. That is what […]

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bitcoin

Installing and Running a Full Node with Bitcoin Core Daemon on Ubuntu 20.04

In this guide I will be showing the steps I used to get a bitcion full node running. It is based mainly on the bitcoin core full node guide however I also used some info from the Mastering Bitcoin book Prerequisites In order to run a full node your computer needs to meet certain performance […]