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Views: 450 During an Interview as a Senior Devops, My Apple Watch said “Buzz buzz, your hearts racing! Are you OK? Should I text your son and wife ?” The interview might have been successful and I might continue the process, I might have been correct for an important security question that they claimed I …
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Views: 240LLMs do not take into account the entirety of a project LLMs struggle with real-world deployments, consistently forgetting ~20% of critical components. This became clear while setting up @Istio on Kubernetes with Prometheus and Kiali observability. Following my thoughts on DevOps interviews and whiteboard coding tests (see link below), I’m now seeing the flip …
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Views: 719Developer Hiring Managers that dont understand Devops As a DevOps engineer with over 20 years of experience I recently faced an interviewer who was genuinely shocked that I couldn’t find the missing number in an array of 1 to 100. Yes, really. This happened in 2025, when GitHub Copilot could solve this in seconds. …
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Views: 2820I was recently on the job search Market in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem seeking a job as a Senior Devops. I found a great job At Coro Cybersecurity Another company whose name I do not remember. I do remember that it was high floor and had a great play room for kids! They gave …
Views: 1786 I had a discussion with ChatGpt where it denied that Google Search results for tech searches are constantly deteriorating Write for me instructions to install the following commands on Amazon Linux 2 for both AMD64 and ARM64 write them with Google SEO in mind so that search engine will put these at the …
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Views: 3793Microsoft Edge is WAY to spammy and confusing to replace cleaner Chrome I have decided to open Chrome on Windows 11 instead of Edge. I was psyched to use edge, but opening a new tab is way to confusing. When you open a new tab in Edge it opens CRAP news page with spammy …
Views: 3198googleads utterly removed I have utterly removed Google ads from my site now, https://charming.co.il GoogleAds havent given me even a penny since 2014. Not even worth the energy to paste their useless code! from my site now. Read and get smarter. I simply turned off the WordPress plugin that was showing them.
Views: 3965Make Powershell scripts run from a Powershell Window It is no wonder that powershell never caught on like bash, python or even Perl. You can’t share and easily run them as Microsoft defaults the setting to only allow you to run signed script. Signing Powershell scripts is a major waste of time and energy. …
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Views: 4405 Clients concerned with security like financial institutions need to have their containers pulled from an internal Docker registry Setup disconnected Docker registry for Rhosp Pre-requisites: On registry run: $ yum update -y 3.2 Install the Offline registry and Tag the images yum install -y docker-distribution docker yum-utils docker git wget git net-tools bind- …
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Views: 3668Troubleshoot Fencing on Redhat or Centos Linux We are setting up fencing for Enterprise Customers for Openstack. In Linux fencing is called for whenever you have a cluster. Using PCS and fencing the other servers can turn off a damaged server until it is fixed. Pay attention that mac address is the provision nic …
Views: 7009last year I got stuck simply installing my PC with Windows 10 Pro from OEM envelope. I had downloaded the installation iso. Every time I installed it insisted on putting only the home version. IN order to get it to work, you need to add the file pid.txt to the sources dir on the …
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Views: 3678Here is the source file that is used to create docker’s silly container names. Source: moby/names-generator.go at master · moby/moby The left side has an adjective like “affectionate”, “agitated”, “amazing”, “angry”, “awesome”, “beautiful”, “blissful”, “bold”, “boring”, “brave”, “busy”, The right side show ignorance of special people as it is based on names from notable …
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Views: 3976Automation is often a lot of work, even just installing curl Ubuntu is a social creature and does not like to be automated as much as you might expect. Very often your automation gets stuck because all of a sudden the folks at Canonical decided that they prefer human interaction. Often Ansible just hangs! …
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