A Technical I.T./DevOps Blog
Problem scenario
Using a Mac computer your mouse becomes lost or you have an application that is open (based on the black dot underneath its icon), but you cannot find the application. Your computer thinks the application is open, but it is not. What should you do?
Solution
Is your laptop connected to another monitor? If an HDMI cable is connected to the laptop and that monitor is off or hidden,
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Problem scenario
You want to instantiate a class with default values if the class was called to create an object without all the settings. You want to verify you know how to code this basic object-oriented programming feature. You want to print out specific member variables of an object. How do you do this?
Solution
Use this program:
#!/bin/python3
class Computer(object):
def __init__(self, …
Problem scenario
When trying to attach a Lambda function to a VPC, you get an error like this: “The provided execution role does not have permissions to call CreateNetworkInterface on EC2”
What should you do?
Solution
1. Go to IAM and create a policy. Use the JSON editor. Use these settings (taken from StackOverflow):
{
“Version”: “2012-10-17”, …
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Problem scenario
You are running a Python program with the “strip” string manipulation method. You get this problem:
<built-in method strip of str object at 0x7fc87bf4a0f0>
What should you do?
Solution
Did you remember to use the parentheses “()” with your strip call?
print(x.strip) can return “<built-in method strip of str object at 0x7fc87bf4a0f0>”
print(x.strip()) will return the intended value. …
Problem scenario
You want to craft an AWS CLI command to return the principal services of your IAM roles. You want the name and the ARN values of the roles to be printed along with the principal services. You know the principal services data is in the AssumePolicyDocument. Your previous attempts have returned “None” for this value. What do you do?
Solution
Run a command like this:
aws iam list-roles –output text –query ‘Roles[*].[RoleName,Arn,AssumeRolePolicyDocument.Statement[*].Principal]’ …
Question
Can an Apple Magic Keyboard work with a Windows computer?
Answer
Yes. An Apple Magic Keyboard will work with a Windows 10 desktop/laptop. It is plug and play too. We tried it with the USB cable initially. After that the wireless functionality was normal. (We tried this in December of 2020.) You can buy a Magic Keyboard here.
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Question
Why do some job descriptions emphasize object-oriented programming as opposed to procedural programming, scripting or other alternatives?
Background
Some people think that OOP is overused in certain contexts (page 379 of Python 3 Object-Oriented Programming and page 1303 of Programming Python by Mark Lutz). For example OOP may not be ideal for something like regexing (or matching string patterns per page 247 of Python 3 Object-Oriented Programming).
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Problem scenario
You run a Hadoop command, but you get this error:
2020-12-20 18:19:33,706 INFO client.DefaultNoHARMFailoverProxyProvider: Connecting to ResourceManager at /0.0.0.0:8032
2020-12-20 18:19:36,068 INFO ipc.Client: Retrying connect to server: 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0:8032. Already tried 0 time(s); retry policy is RetryUpToMaximumCountWithFixedSleep(maxRetries=10, sleepTime=1000 MILLISECONDS)
You tried restarted the start-dfs script with this command: bash /usr/local/hadoop/sbin/start-dfs.sh
It did not help. You ran “jps” to see if Resource Manager was running.
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Problem scenario
You are using a Mac and you want an environment variable to be configured. What should you do?
Solution
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