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Within this quick tutorial we will show you the steps required to install easy_install-2.7 and pip-2.7. Install wget –no-check-certificate tar xf distribute-0.6.35.tar.gzcd distribute-0.6.35python2.7 setup.py install easy_install-2.7 pip Confirm [root@server]# easy_install-2.7error: No urls, filenames, or requirements specified (see –help) [root@server]# pip-2.7 -Vpip 1.3.1 from /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip-1.3.1-py2.7.egg (python 2.7)
Within this article we will show you how to list all IP`s relating to a single AS. STEPS First of all get the IP address for the domain. [root@server]$ whois 173.252.110.27 | grep OriginAS OriginAS: AS32934 Finally run another whois against the AS to obtain a list of IPs. origin=$(whois `dig facebook.com +short | head … Read more
Issue When running Django 1.5.1 you may observe the following error, NoReverseMatch at /‘url’ requires a non-empty first argument. The syntax changed in Django 1.5, see the docs. Solution This issue can occur due to changes in the url tag syntax. More information on this can be found at https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/1.5/. The correct syntax for url … Read more
Within this short tutorial we will show you the steps required to create a csv file that includes multi-line cells within Python. In order to create a mutliline cell within Excel (2010/2013) the following is required: newlines are represented with a carriage return/newline, the string should be wrapped in quotes. One of the great things … Read more
The Juniper SRX offers 4 types of High Availability (HA) deployment, Active/Passive Simple Active/Passive Full Mesh Active/Active Deployment Active/Passive Transparent Mode Within this article we will look at Active/Passive Simple upon a SRX 240 series device. Summary Active/Passive is the most common type of HA deployment and consists of 2 firewall members. Whilst one node … Read more
How can I optimize the throughput of a VPN across a WAN based link ? I was recently asked this question the other day by a client, after seeing the results (in which the transfer speeds were nearly tripled) I thought it would make an interesting article. Background My client had a VPN (Site to … Read more
The are 2 main types of SA (Security Association) lifetimes ; soft and hard. Soft lifetime – The soft lifetime defines the number of seconds until the IKE process is informed that the SA is about to expire. This is to provide enough time for the creation of a new SA before the hard lifetime … Read more
For years, I had ran my Prolific USB to Serial cable from my Windows 32bit laptop without any issues. Unfortunately, life when running Windows is never easy. After upgrading Windows 7 to 64bit I tried to install the drivers from CNET downloads. This was a HUGE mistake. Even though the CNET downloader told me it … Read more
Within this article we will look at how to permit only authenticated users to a view via the use of a custom login form. SETTINGS First of all a few changes need to be made to the settings.py file. Such as + ‘django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware’ to MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES + ‘django.contrib.auth’ and ‘django.contrib.contenttypes’to INSTALLED_APPS Once done update your database by … Read more