DELL CHAT SUPPORT

Sick of telling phonetic code over the phone?

Try dell chat support here: http://www.dell.com/support/incidents/us/en/555/chat/tagchange

DISABLE MSI WITH MINIMAL INTERRUPTION

ifconfig eth0 down
rmmod bnx2
modprobe bnx2 disable_msi=1
ifconfig eth0 up
route add -net default netmask 0.0.0.0 gw [default gw here] eth0

For bonding interface:

3TB PARTITION SUPPORT IN LINUX

Make a GPT partition:

parted /dev/sda
mklabel gpt
unit TB
mkpart primary 0 -0
quit

Format with 1% root reservation:

HOW TO INCREASE VM DISK SIZE WITHOUT RE-DEPLOY THE MACHINE

Ref: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&docTypeID=DT_KB_1_1&externalId=1006371

[root@demo ~]# fdisk /dev/sda

-Create a primary partition-

[root@demo ~]# fdisk -l

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 64 512000 83 Linux
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2 64 1306 9972736 8e Linux LVM
/dev/sda3 1306 6527 41942367+ 83 Linux

[root@demo ~]# pvcreate /dev/sda3
[root@demo ~]# vgextend vg_demo /dev/sda3

[root@demo ~]# vgdisplay vg_demo | grep Free
Free PE / Size 10239 / 40.00 GiB

[root@demo ~]# lvextend -L+40.00G /dev/vg_demo/lv_root

[root@demo ~]# resize2fs /dev/vg_demo/lv_root

Note: I wouldn’t do this for any production system as it looks pretty inefficient way to extend volume size.

L2L VPN WITH ASA - CONNECTION ESTABLISHED BUT NO PACKET COMING FROM ONE SIDE

Symtom:

1. Connection established.

2. 0 en/decapsulated packet from one side.

FIX HADOOP LEAP SECOND BUG WITHOUT REBOOTING

Source: http://blog.wpkg.org/2012/07/01/java-leap-second-bug-30-june-1-july-2012-fix/

Applied our hadoop node having CPU usage issue. (CentOS)

CHANGE IMESSAGE & FACETIME PHONE NUMBER IN CASE OF VERIFICATION FAILURE

Happened me after carrier change. Keep picking up SIM build-in number rather than my old number ported in later.

DEVICE CREDENTIAL FOR CISCO LICENSE LOOKUP AND TRANSFER

https://tools.cisco.com/SWIFT/LicensingUI/LicenseAdminServlet/licenseLookup

in CLI:

license save credential flash0:/credentials.lic  
more flash0:/credentials.lic 

Try SSH if you can’t get full strings from serial connection.

ZEROMQ - PHP CLIENT & PYTHON SERVER WITH MULTI PART MESSAGE EXAMPLE

Using pyobj or php data serialisation is not an option in this case..

HUBOT PANDORA BOT ADAPTER

# Chat with pandora bot
#
# ai <anything>  PANDORA AI
#

QS = require querystring
xml2js = require xml2js

module.exports = (robot) ->
        robot.respond /(ai|AI)( me)? (.*)/i, (msg) ->
                user = msg.message.user.name
                query = msg.match[3]
                botid = meh
                parser = new xml2js.Parser({explicitArray: true})
                msg.http(http://www.pandorabots.com/pandora/talk-xml”)
                        .query({
                        botid: botid
                        custid: user
                        input: query
                        })
                        .post() (err, resp, body) ->
                                parser.parseString body, (err, result) ->
                                        #console.log(result.that)
                                        msg.send result.that