The MaaS CLI documentation is a bit trash Login to MaaS maas login admin http://10.10.110.250:5240/MAAS/api/2.0/ 5HvxATpW5487XmkSjZ:CXfC3McdvV9U9aefbp:wB9jGT8AJ4DUYArJ8dDqeRVczBwJEXMk Set the IPMI Cipher Suite ID to 'freeipmi-tools default' maas admin machine update bfyq3e power_parameters_cipher_suite_id='' Commission …

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Sometimes it's a necessary evil to make a bootable windows USB using your Ubuntu\Linux machine. If that terrible day ever arrives, you now have the tools to help. sudo bash woeusb-5.2.4.bash --device Win10_21H2_English_x64.iso /dev/sdb --target-filesystem NTFS For eveyrthing other than a Windows USB I normally use …

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I'm lazy and i dont like typing 3 different git commands just to perform a commit, so a quick Google search led me to this great little nugget https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19595067/git-add-commit-and-push-commands-in-one Add this function to the bottom of your ~/.bashrc file then hit 'source ~/.bashrc' and you …

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We know we shouldnt do it and we should all embrace IPv6 and move the the future yada yada yada. Dont get me wrong, I'm a hge fan of IPv6 and i think life would be unicorns and rainbows if we were all 100% ipv6, but the nasty realisty is that even in 2022 there are quite a few reason why we cant use it. If you find …

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I needed to copy code from one repo to another removing all prior commits, this did the trick 1git commit -m "Enter commit message for your new initial commit" 2 3# Overwrite the old master branch reference with the new one 4git branch -M new-master master```

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May 6 14:25:51 %S6100-ON:1 %IFAGT-5-UNSUP_OPTICS: Non-qualified optics in stack-unit 1 module 5 port 1 May 6 14:25:56 %S6100-ON:1 %IFAGT-2-TRANSCEIVER_UNSUPPORTED_ERROR: Transceiver in stack-unit 1 module 1 port 1 unrecognized, putting interface in operational-down state May 6 14:25:56 %S6100-ON:1 …

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https://fedorapeople.org/groups/virt/virtio-win/direct-downloads/archive-virtio/virtio-win-0.1.217-1/virtio-win-0.1.217.iso Export VM definition to XML sudo virsh dumpxml instance-00000879 > instance-00000879.xml Edit the XML Set current OS disk to IDE 63079162-7de3-4f72-882c-b6942ebc008e Add CDROM Add a fake …

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You can use youtube-dl to download individual videos, or you can ask it to download an entire playlist. When it’s downloading a playlist, it downloads the individual videos one-by-one, which isn’t particularly fast. Here’s a shell snippet that downloads playlist videos in parallel, which is faster: 1youtube-dl --get-id …

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A while back I had to configure a bunch of servers with Mellanox Connect-X 4 NIC's to talk to an ethernet Switch(Dell S6000-ON to be exact) and the NIC's that my customer had fitted not only had really old firmware but they were also in Infiniband(I think) mode, not Ethernet. So i had to do some legwork.. First job was …

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In the wise words of one of my collegues If you need a cheap http server 1python3 -m http.server

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