A Technical I.T./DevOps Blog
Problem scenario
You read “böse” in The Story of Philosophy by Will Durant (on page 320). What does “böse” mean?
Answer
It means “evil” in German. The source was translate.google.com.
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Problem scenario
You cannot use sudo because a relevant .so file has been deleted. You do not know the root password, and you are using Fedora. What should you do?
Solution
Change the root password with a bootable DVD or USB drive with the .iso of Fedora. Boot to the DVD or USB drive. Then use these directions.
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Problem scenario
In a pre-boot menu on your server/desktop/laptop, there is a UEFI/BIOS screen showing a “boot menu” with vestiges of older operating systems that used to be installed. You do not want these displayed because many are corrupt or otherwise deleted. How do you remove the options from the menu?
Possible Solution #1
If you are using Linux,
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Question
You want to purchase a book to learn Maven. What book is recommended?
Answer
Maven: The Definitive Guide written by Sonatype and published by O’Reilly (per page 377 of Continuous Delivery by Humble and Farley).
If you want to read about Maven or Gradle, you can browse articles on this site.
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Problem scenario
You run “make install” and get an error like this:
build github.com/operator-framework/operator-sdk/cmd/operator-sdk: cannot find module for path embed
make: *** [Makefile:65: install] Error 1
What should you do?
Solution
1. Edit the go.mod file. Replace this line:
module github.com/operator-framework/operator-sdk/
with this line
module github.com/operator-framework/operator-sdk/tree/master/ …
Problem scenario
When you enter text in vi you see A, B, C, or D, when you press an arrow key. How do you get vi to act more “normally”?
Solution
Create ~/.vimrc if it doesn’t exist. If it does exist, append a stanza “set nocompatible” (without quotes) to the file.
Here are the steps:
vi ~/.vimrc
set nocompatible …
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Question
Is it acceptable to ask an employee if they have availability for more work by asking if they have “bandwidth”?
Answer
Yes, but not everyone will know what it means, and some people don’t care for this metaphor.
Sources:
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Problem scenario
You run a “make install” command, but it fails with a message that says
“error loading module requirements…Makefile …”
What should you do?
Possible solution #1
You do not have enough space on the disk. Can you expand the storage capacity? Then run “go mod tidy” when the server is usable again. Try the “make install” again.
Possible solution #2
You do not have permissions to write to certain directories.
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Problem scenario
You want to pull, pluck or tweeze some gray or white hairs. It can be difficult or time-consuming to grab a single hair follicle. Is there a way to do it without being tedious?
Solution
Use high quality tweezers. (Affordable or cheap tweezers don’t work as well; you will spend less time with good tweezers.)
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