Symptom: no lock screen under Gnome/Wayland. The rest of Gnome is functional.
Analysis: journalctl -b shows following lines:
journalctl -b
gsd-media-keys[3703]: \Couldn't lock screen…
Getting reverse shell into any CI, Dorker container inlcuded
Ansible has some rudimentary support for dates and times, but gosh…
I got a simple task: compare string like this ’10 Apr 19 12:52 UTC’ with mtime for a given file to see if file is older than a given date.
Tools:
I had plans to transition to ansible 2.5 after their fist bugfix release. But Ubuntu included ansible 2.5 into Bionic, and it crawled into my system usual updates. Surprisingly, most of the code worked (not counting few deprecation warning), but I found a problem…
This problem bothered me for some time: I use power button on my home PC (not a laptop) as a suspend button. It worked well except for the case when I have screen saver active. My power button is ‘seen’ but ignored by everyone. I use Cinnamon…
I have a misfortune to work with network equipment of a vendor in so awe of Cisco that it replicated ‘wildcard masks’ for ACLs in their dialect of configuration.
What a stupid idea. Nevertheless, I need to work with it.
Finally, it’s my upgrade time from ansible 2.4 (to 2.7). All I know that many my playbooks become badly broken. If task executed on a wrong host, what can be more damaging?
You need to test those two pesky lines at the end of your app, if you want 100% code coverage. For dynamically typed languages it is the absolute necessity to have 100% code coverage. Runtime type-checking will push all typos in names of functions and variables…
I’m writing an ansible-module using ‘requests’ library. It’s nice to use and I like it, but the problem is that I can’t see the body of the stuff I send. SSL adds ‘no tcpdump’ restriction.
I’ve decide to waste some of my personal weekend time on this issue, as I feel…