pastleo

setup L2TP IPsec VPN in archlinux using NetworkManager

install packages first:

yay -S xl2tpd strongswan networkmanager-l2tp

ref: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Openswan_L2TP/IPsec_VPN_client_setup

corpix

{ lib }:
with lib; rec {
  pow =
    let
      pow' = base: exponent: value:
        # FIXME: It will silently overflow on values > 2**62 :(
        # The value will become negative or zero in this case
        if exponent == 0
        then 1
        else if exponent <= 1

ekreutz

Ansible variable precedence

Source: http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/playbooks_variables.html#variable-precedence-where-should-i-put-a-variable

From least to most important

• command line values (for example, -u my_user, these are not variables)
• role defaults (defined in role/defaults/main.yml)
• inventory file or script group vars
• inventory group_vars/all

CMCDragonkai

Regular Expression Engine Comparison Chart

Many different applications claim to support regular expressions. But what does that even mean?

Well there are lots of different regular expression engines, and they all have different feature sets and different time-space efficiencies.

The information here is just copied from: http://regular-expressions.mobi/refflavors.html

alopresto

If anyone is interested in setting up their system to automatically (or manually) sign their git commits with their GPG key, here are the steps:

1. Generate and add your key to GitHub
2. $ git config --global commit.gpgsign true ([OPTIONAL] every commit will now be signed)
3. $ git config --global user.signingkey ABCDEF01 (where ABCDEF01 is the fingerprint of the key to use)
4. $ git config --global alias.logs "log --show-signature" (now available as $ git logs)
5. $ git config --global alias.cis "commit -S" (optional if global signing is false)
6. $ echo "Some content" >> example.txt
7. $ git add example.txt
8. $ git cis -m "This commit is signed by a GPG key." (regular commit will work if global signing is enabled)

shamil

How to mount a qcow2 disk image

This is a quick guide to mounting a qcow2 disk images on your host server. This is useful to reset passwords, edit files, or recover something without the virtual machine running.

Step 1 - Enable NBD on the Host

modprobe nbd max_part=8