Author Archives: Om Prakash Singh

This is a quick document for my reference not much details in here. Will elaborate later. File Locations: Binary Files: /opt/puppetlabs/bin Symlinks to : /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/bin Main configuration files: /etc/puppetlabs/puppet main configuration file is puppet.configuration Display data with puppet command. 1 2 3 4 5 $ puppet agent –version To check the version $ puppet config […]

When quoting is necessary in Ansible. Quoting in Ansible is not as usual quoting works. Its a little complex at times we may need to use quotes under quotes to make things work. For example, if refrencing a variable right after specifying the module, the YAML parser will misinterpret the variable refrence as the beginning […]

Found a old compaq laptop from previous life, this may be 8/10 years old. The laptop came with a working motherboard and a failed battery. Everything worked fine except the OS is not getting detected and the harddisk was with corrupt sectors. I happen to swap my Thinkpad 500GB IDE harddisk with an 120 GB […]

Google wants us to use https to rank our site, they prioritise HTTPS over HTTP and when you are hosting your personal website/blog site on Github you should use https. With CloudFlare DNS service and your Github custom domain this will speed up your site and make it load faster on the browser since CloudFlare […]

What is Github Github is a code hosting platform for collaboration and version control using git which is quite similar to SVN and Mercurial. Github allows us to work with other developers together on the projects. You can sign up for github at https://github.com Essential components of Github are: RepositoriesBranchesCommitsPull RequestGit (The version control software Github […]

Thank you for the encouragement!! I am planning to put my learning emacs into a series of a blog which can help new users to get emacs acquainted quickly. The series post is part of my “LEARN EMACS IN 30 DAYS CHALLENGE.” Below are the topics, I am planning to cover upon during my 30 […]

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