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Intel Wifi Killer card in Dell XPS15

My employer bought me a new laptop. All bells and whistles are present. A hefty processor, a decent amount of memory. I am very very satisfied. But….network connections are dropped from time to time. When working with ssh/telnet is major … Continue reading

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Fietsen in Amsterdam

Fietsen in Amsterdam, dan heb je een deathwish. Mensen ‘uit de polder’ zijn gemakkelijk te herkennen die stoppen voor stoplichten. Amsterdamse kamikaze fietsers weten dat ze voor de wet de meeste bescherming genieten. Om van ebike’s nog te zwijgen. De … Continue reading

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SFP Optic values on Juniper

ninja@someswitch> show interfaces diagnostics optics ge-1/2/0   Physical interface: ge-1/2/0    Laser bias current                        :  8.132 mA    Laser output power                        :  1.0960 mW / 0.40 dBm    Module temperature                        :  26 degrees C / 78 degrees F    Module voltage                            :  3.3800 V … Continue reading

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Session logout Juniper

Once in a while a run in to an orphaned tty session. Somebody logged on by means of serial cable, and left while forgeeting to log out. ninja@someswitch> show system users  fpc0:————————————————————————–11:47PM  up 252 days, 14:55, 2 users, load averages: … Continue reading

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Wireshark on a juniper interface

Once in a while you are in need of analyzing traffic on a specific interface using Wireshark. Junos being a unix ( derived from Research Unix ) offers several ways to perform this task. I will focus now on the … Continue reading

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TCL/Expect read from file (executing custom config in bulk)

At this point in time I need a nifty little tool to configure some ports on network devices. But the challenge is that the ports differ from device to device. In order to do this I have to create a … Continue reading

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PDF tools on Ubuntu

Ubuntu is my preferred operating system. I even use this OS on my work computer. This choice has some minor down sides. Most business software is developed for windows environments. But fortunately most commercial software on windows has an opensource … Continue reading

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European situation – Special military operation

My father was born in 1935. He lived his childhood in Rotterdam. As a 5 year old he expirienced firsthand the invasion of German troops of his beloved city. The expirience of the entire war that followed, hunted him for … Continue reading

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Laptop battery status

Recently the battery of my laptop is play up. It is constantly hungry for a powercord. And this is not the reason why I am using a laptop. The battery health was rapidly declining. So I installed a new laptop … Continue reading

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lstty

I found this little script on internet to get a list of all the usb connected devices. Unfortunaltly this script provides too much information for what I need it to do. Original script can be found on : https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/144029/command-to-determine-ports-of-a-device-like-dev-ttyusb0 Pay … Continue reading

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