I am setting up a new CentOS 7 server, in 2019, because I want a long life public facing WordPress host that I can update easily. For example when the “Heartbleed” security bug, in the OpenSSL cryptography library, was discovered … Continue reading
Category Archives: Scripting
If you want to convert a dictionary object to JSON you would use something like:
myJSON = json.dumps(myDict, indent=4, sort_keys=True)
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Azure pipelines are great, but a frustration is how to persist variables through phases in build and release pipelines. For two tasks running in the same agent phase you can pass variables a number of ways. If it is a … Continue reading
I had a really strange problem, I was writing a tiny Python script to learn about Python and it was writing to /var/tmp. Only problem was the file never turned up. This script was run from within Apache 2 on … Continue reading
Want to run Python from Apache 2.4, this is what I did to get it working. For this exercise I am creating a web hook script and want to run them from the custom folder “/srv/www/webhooks/”. Apache config changes First … Continue reading
This post is mostly focused around getting a Microsoft MCE, Media Centre Edition, infra-red remote working with a MythTV frontend. However I will be covering as much as I can about about generic issues. My setup has Fedora 16 running … Continue reading
This mini project is designed to allow you to extract and import data from an Oracle database using simple JDBC. Nothing even remotely startling about that, this is designed as a very simple command line tool that can be called … Continue reading
I am running MythTV 0.25 on Fedora 16. The problem I have is that sometimes the backend stops responding for reasons I have not figured out. Until I resolve the problem I want a mechanism that will restart the backend … Continue reading