Reset Cisco switch port/interface to default then apply vlan

June 3, 2013 //
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I recently had to wrestle some switch port configurations back to default after applying to dumb settings to them.
This was for a Catalyst 3750x in a stack, although it likely applies to many cisco switches.

Reset interface (port) to default

Unfortunately I could not figure out how to do this to the range like in the example below – it’s likely possible, but after the interface range command, trying to give the command default wanted another parameter, and I didn’t want to have to reset each config to default, so I just rant the above command for each interface, then did bulk range operations for applying the vlans.

 

Apply vlans to ranges or interfaces (ports)

In that example ports 1-47 had a default vlan applied and port 48 had a management vlan applied.

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Grow LUKS encrypted LVM /home partition

May 14, 2013 //
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I run Fedora in VMware Fusion and needed more space in /home than I had initially anticipated. Luckily I had some space left on my Mac and shut shutdown the VM, went into the Fusion settings then increased the VMs disk size by 10GB after that I needed to apply the space to my /home patition which was an encrypted LV.

First step was to reboot into Single User Mode, from there I created a new ext2 partition (doesn’t really matter that it’s ext2, we’ll deal with that) with parted using the new free space this was /dev/sda3 You could also just extend the existing physical partition, but I felt safer doing it like this, and hey, that’s what LVM is for.

Take a look at your /etc/fstab and you’ll see the /dev/mapper/luks-biglonguuid device that is your encrypted partition

And there you have it!

Originally learned this from here and expanded on the explanations a bit http://blog.gauner.org/blog/2010/01/23/resize-a-luks-partition-on-lvm/

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Node.js Centos 6.3 RPM Spec

February 27, 2013 //
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I’m trying my best to keep a spec file for node.js updated on github whenever there’s a new stable release since there’s no ‘simple’ way to install it in CentOS.

I haven’t used node.js much at all, but it’s very interesting from what I’ve seen and some of my favourite developers are singing it’s praises.  If you’re interested in it, take a look at the spec file on my very meager github page – I didn’t write it, but when I found it it was several versions behind so I updated it and have taken it upon myself to keep it up to date with each stable release. As of this posting it’s at version 0.8.21

https://github.com/jordanconway/node-rpm-spec

This is also my first post in around 3 years, in that time I’ve gone from an inside sales representative at an industrial supply company with a passion for technology to a System Administrator working in the clinical research field specializing in Linux and virtualization – yay me!

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Enable Flash on Google Chrome Beta in Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala

December 8, 2009 //
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Today Google released Google Chrome Beta for Linux/mac.

This is the actual Google branded version of Chromium which has been available on Linux for quite some time now.  I installed Google Chrome only to find out that Flash did not Work on it.  Being no stranger to flash not working on linux, I poked around a bit until I found a solution.

UPDATE: It appears that Flash will work if you import your settings from Firefox when you install it, however if you’re a Chromium user and did not import any settings when you installed Chrome this should fix you right up.

The following applies to my experience with Ubuntu 9.10 64bit and Google Chrome Beta 64bit.

I’ll assume that you are already using Flash in Firefox or Google Chromium.

Fist we’re going to find your flash plugin: Open up a terminal window and type (always leaving out the quotations)

“sudo updatedb”

This will update the database that “locate” uses to find things with. Next we’ll use locate to find your flash plugin.

“locate libflashplayer.so”

That should show you the location of your Flash plugin, something like “/usr/lib/chromium-browser/plugins/libflashplayer.so” or “/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so”

What we need to do is make a directory for the plugin in the default Google Chrome install directory which is “/opt/google/chrome/”

so back to the terminal window and type

“cd /opt/google/chrome”

now once there type:

“sudo mkdir plugins”

Now we need to copy libflashplayer.so to the newly created plugins directory

“sudo cp /usr/lib/chromium-browser/plugins/libflashplayer.so /opt/google/chrome/plugins/”

make sure to replace the bold /usr/lib/chromium-browser/plugins/libflashplayer.so with the output of your previous search “locate libflashplayer.so”

Once that’s done Youtube and all other flash sites should work perfectly well on Google Chrome Beta

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My first Chrome Extension – Simple Print

December 3, 2009 //
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I’ve been really enjoying Google Chrome lately.

I had been a big fan of Firefox for many years, but after playing around for a while with the dev channel versions of Chrome -called Chromium- I have come to really appreciate the speed increase I get using Chrome/Chromium instead of Firefox. Now that Chrome has the ability to have addons – extensions as they’re called in Chrome – I have very little need for Firefox anymore.  There are however some things from Firefox that I miss. Small things, like the ability to have a “Print” button on your toolbar.  So I scrounged around a bit and after some trial and error I came up with my first chrome plugin “Simple Print”

It is very, very simple.  All it does it put a print button on your chrome bar.  You click the button and it brings up a print dialog.  That’s it.  It may get more features eventually, but for now, It is just a print button.

Simple Print Screenshot

If you’re interested you can download and install it here!

Simple Print
Simple Print

UPDATE:  I’m on the official Google Chrome Extensions Gallery

Note that you will need to have the beta or  dev channel version of Chrome installed.  you can find that here http://www.google.com/landing/chrome/beta/ or here http://www.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel

I have tested this on Ubuntu 9.10, Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 it seems to work on all of them.

It’s a super simple addon, but if you’re interested in the source code drop me a line. The icon used came from the “humanitarian” gnome icon theme available here.

EDIT:

There seems to be some problems with my extension right now (not printing or printing blank pages only) I’m working hard to figure it out, when I’ve got it I’ll update it here and if you have it installed it should automatically update your copy as well. I have reason to believe that it (and the two other print extensions that have since popped up) are broken because of this bug http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=29621

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Jordan Teaches – RSS & Google Reader

April 2, 2009 //
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While I’m still trying to figure out exactly what I’m doing with this page I came up with an idea for a recurring segment called “Jordan Teaches”.  I know a lot of stuff.  In this segment I share some of my knowledge with you.

For the inaugural post of Jordan Teaches I’ll teach you about RSS and Google Reader.

RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication.  I’m not going to go all Wikipedia on you, but essentially it distils the essence of a webpage or blog post and makes it readily available for syndication, or sharing.  Like when your favourite TV show goes into syndication and networks other than the one that owns it can pick it up and play it whenever they want to.  It’s the same for many webpages, but you don’t need to wait until the 100th episode, you can do it whenever.

The advantage to this is that you can read all of your favourite sites at the same place, and keep track of unread articles and be notified of new articles as soon as they are available.

RSS can syndicate posts or pages to many places, but the most common one is to a Newsreader or RSS reader program.  There are many of these available, but in the interest of operating system neutrality I won’t get into the various Windows, Mac or Linux options available, I’m going to talk about Google Reader.

Google reader is free and accessible from anywhere you can get the web, even your phone.

You can go check it out here: http://www.google.com/reader

It probably looks something like this

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Now if you’ve already got a Gmail account or other google account the good news is that you’ve got a Google Reader account!  If not, you’ve got to sign up, gmail is great, but I’m not going to talk about that for now, just sign yourself up for google reader then sign in.  You’re ready to go!

The next step is finding the RSS feeds for your favourite sites.  A feed is pretty much the stream, or channel if you would that tunes your RSS reader to the site you want.

The de facto international symbol for RSS is this orange guy here:

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Look around at your favourite page for this guy, or a variation of and give it a click.

Now this is where it gets kind of tricky depending on what internet browser you’re using it will handle RSS feeds differently.

If you’re using Internet Explorer 7 I’ll let the fine people over at the Google Operating System blog explain what to do from here.

Add Feeds to Google Reader in Internet Explorer 7

I imagine it’s similar with the newly release Internet Explorer 8 also.

However if you’re using Firefox (which is currently my browser of choice) when you click on an RSS feed for the first time you’ll be presented with something like this:

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Check the box that says “Always use Google…” and then click Subscribe Now.  You only have to do this once.  Once it’s done it will bring you to the next screen which is what you’ll see from now on whenever you click an RSS feed.

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Click the Add to Google Reader button and you’re done!

Or you can click the “Add a Subscription button in Google Reader and paste the RSS feed address in there.

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It seems like a lot of steps, but it’s actually quite simple.  Once you’ve got some of your favourite sites added to Google Reader the main Reader page looks like this

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This is my google reader page, you can add Tags to posts that organize them in the sidebar by folder, you can search in the top to go through everything you’ve ever read to find that funny cat picture that you saw last week, but can’t remember where.  It’s great.

Google Reader has literally changed the way I use the web.  No more going from bookmark to bookmark, I just load up Google Reader and scroll through all of my favourite sites, all in the same place.  It removes the flashy and distracting colours from the sites you read (pro or con, depending on how you look at it)  It gets rid of most of the advertising that you see on sites.  It cuts off the inane comments that go along with many articles and it just makes the web a crisper, cleaner, easier to read place.

That’s it for this first issue of Jordan Teaches.  I was probably too verbose,  and maybe a little confusing, but I’m new at this, I’ll work on paring it down more in future episodes of Jordan Teaches.  I hope you learned something.

Cheers,

-Jordan

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Jordan’s Journal March 29th, 2009

March 29, 2009 //
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Sunday morning.  A blog was born on the internet.  Nobody knows why.  Nobody cares.

Hi I’m Jordan Conway.  I live in Montreal.  This is my attempt at setting myself apart from the other Jordan Conways in the world.

Not Me:

From what I can tell there’s a skateboarder/photographer in California named Jordan Conway; he is not me (but he does take very nice pictures).

There’s also some kid in Nova Scotia named Jordan Conway who seems to be nicknamed Plem, even though there’s a Facebook group about him that uses a picture of me they found on Google; he is not me.

Some chick in the UK. She is definately not me, although she has pretty good google ranking. (What the heck is bebo?)

Me:

This is me on Facebook.  I’ve kind of grown away from facebook, much like many of the facebook “friends” that I have, I don’t see facebook much anymore.

This is me on Twitter. I barely understand twitter, but I have an account.  I’ve seen cool things where you can have your plants tweet when they need water, or tweet your electricity usage, maybe one day I’ll do something cool like that.

I’ve got a flickr account but no photos are up yet.  I’m pretty good at taking pictures.  I used to have my own darkroom.  I just haven’t gotten around to putting anything on flickr, seems like a waste if it’s not a pro account, but you never know…  I should probably check that out.

That’s it for now.

Cheers,

-Jordan

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