Activity in General Developer Topics
Tales From The Crypt: SyslinuxOS & Failing Linux Distro Installations
If you haven't read my State of Linux Distros, read it now. It's the law. Anyway, you'll see in that post that I was met with kernel panics while installing some distros. IIRC, the panic was always about "init not found" or some similar message. I al...
This Week in Tech: November 30, 2023
Cyber Monday, a term created by Ellen Davis and Scott Silverman of the National Retail Federation's Shop.org division in the United States, which was developed to promote online shopping as a counterpart to 'Black Friday,' known for its in-store shop...
Word of the Week: Q
Amazon is developing its own Generative AI for Amazon Web Services (AWS), calling it, of all things, Q. This effort is likely in response to Microsoft's GPT-driven Copilot. AWS is currently the leading Cloud developer market with about 32% market sha...
Proxmox 8.1 is now available!
Read all about it at the Proxmox web site. If you're running 8.0, it's an easy upgrade. Edit your Debian source files (ex. /etc/apt/sources.list) and change any occurrence of "bullseye" to "bookworm". Then run "apt update" and then "apt full-upgrade"...
Ansible ansible.builtin.set_fact to create variable as Cisco command
Hello,I would appreciate, if someone could please advise on the following.From running config I want to extract "router bgp <as#>. And use it as variable as illustrated below.The challenge is that the created variable does include hyphens and quotes ...
Resolved! Ansible WHen statement based an previous Output
Hello,I wanted to create a condition to execute only an ios command when it is part of previous output of "sh run | sec eigrp".It works to remove the eigrp process, but it skippes the removal of route-map, though it is part of output.Please see outpu...
unittest - test parse vlan - issue search type
Hello,I was trying to run the following test parser and it seems that there is an issue with the search type under the ConfigParserVLAN.Please see details below. Thanks. python3 -m unittest test_parser_customer_vlan.pyConfigurationParserAccessed Conf...
New Features on Code Exchange Platform
We constantly improve the Code Exchange platform; the following features are now available for users: 'Related code repository' widget. A widget that suggests to user related/similar repos. Suggested repository list based on the current CE repo tha...
Pyang trhows error for yang 1.1 and anydata
Hi,I need to generate xsd from yang 1.1.The yang 1.1 compiled OK in NSO 6.1.But I got the error with pyang.I use the command:pyang -f xsd -o ./ppp dnnapi.yangpyang throws error:/opt/ncs/current/src/ncs/yang/tailf-ncs-plan.yang:2: error: bad value "1....
Tales From The Crypt: The State of Linux Distros
Linux is, IMO, the best platform for developing applications. Choosing a distribution is a tricky task these days. Ubuntu (Kubuntu) was my default choice for a long time, but I'm not happy with the latest releases. So I tried a number of other distri...
Morse code
Which online Morse Code decoder tool is recognized for its accuracy and efficiency in converting Morse Code to English text
Resolved! Difference between EndOfSecurityVulSupportDate and LastDateOfSupport?
Hi all!We are currently preparing to connect to the EoX API, and saw that both EndOfSecurityVulSupportDate and LastDateOfSupport have similar looking descriptions and results.The descriptions according to the API specification are as follows:EndOfSec...
This Week in Tech: November 16, 2023
OpenAI hosts its first big tech showcase - Maker of ChatGPT unveiled the future it has in mind for its artificial intelligence technology in San Francisco, launching a new line of chatbot products that can be customized to a variety of tasks.The com...
Pair O' Dimes: OOP, Procedural, Functional, Choose!
What kind of programming do you do? Before you answer this, please read what I have to say about each, especially the section on OOP (Object Oriented Programming), because you might be surprised about how I use OOP and I'm curious if you have a simil...
Trivia Tuesday: Matching
Connect items that are related, similar, or that sound alike, from left to right. Could be 1 to 1 or 1 to many match. (1) (a) (2) Asynchronous (b) Cloud Application Security (3) REST ...
