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What are the dynamic IP ranges used by AWS in Ireland for the EC2 service?
$ curl -s https://ip-ranges.amazonaws.com/ip-ranges.json | jq '.p[......]
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How to soft reset Linux disks
Sometimes disks stop responding and cause issues/slowness to the whole system, simply because the system is expecting some sort of response.
In these[……]
Find sdx device/ATAx mappings
When dealing with hardware, you often see messages in the logs about disk issues or warnings.
Messages like:
ata9: hard resetting link
ata9: SATA[......]
Convert Squid/timestamps to a human readable format
Somebody had the brilliant idea to use Unix timestamps in the Squid log.
I suppose this makes it easy to parse, not so easy to read for us humans tho[……]
bash – remove first line with tail and last line with head
You can achieve the same result with other (more powerful) tools, but I like this approach because it’s the simplest I can think of.
Let’s say you[……]
sed – match and replace BIND/DNS serial number programmatically
I had to make some modifications to several BIND zone files, sed proved itself invaluable once again!
All the zone files looked something like this[……]
Remove all non-ascii characters with perl
Sometimes when creating one-liners, when the source is not “clean”, you may end up with non-ascii characters which make the parsing harder.
To get[……]
Converting spreadsheets to text files with ssconvert
Firefox – prevent websites from refreshing
Fed up with websites/tabs continuously reloading themselves and using resources unnecessarily?
Me too!
In firefox, you can disable this from the a[……]
How to update all docker base images with one command
for docker in $(docker images|awk '{print $1,$2}'|sed 's/ /:/g'|grep -v REPOSITORY); do docker pull $docker; done
This command updates all your[……]