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Writing A Reddit Image Scraper With Python -

http://blog.lzahq.tech/2015/02/15/Creating-A-Reddit-Image-Scraper-with-Python

Writing A Reddit Image Scraper With Python. I’ve always kept a mass image downloader script on hand for all my JPEG needs. They first started off rudimentary bash scripts, curling, awking, seding, and cut-cut-cutting. They quickly became decrepit, broken, and impossible to manage. Any time a site was modified, it was back to the drawing board. Sudo apt-get install python-pip. Sudo yum install python-pip. When pip is installed, use it to install praw. Sudo pip install praw. Sudo python setup.py install.

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Home Network and Servers -

http://blog.lzahq.tech/2015/06/03/Home-Network-and-Servers

Home Network and Servers. New setup. Same granny build PC, now running ESXi free. 4 VMs, all CentOS 7, built with same template. Dispatch - Private git repos and configs. Web - Public web host. Plex - Plex and transmission. All running Cockpit and SNMP for performance monitoring. I took an old laptop and installed OpenBSD 5.7. It’s my new Ansible controller. It’s absolutely awesome to be able to update all machines from one console. Ansible all -m command -a "yum install cockpit,net-snmp -y" -K -s.

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Shoretel, MPLS, and the Case of the Outbound NAT -

http://blog.lzahq.tech/2015/01/25/Shoretel-Controlling-Server-IP-and-Carrier-VPN

Shoretel, MPLS, and the Case of the Outbound NAT. Last year we busted our asses deploying a Shoretel phone system to replace our analog phones. It’s saving the company tens of thousands of dollars a month. In addition to that, we started off the new year with a brand new carrier with business class WAN links for all of our sites; T1’s, fiber, and ethernet. This is a chronicling of issues and our rise. Bandwidth was terribly slow. We pay for 40mbps on our fiber link and are getting 3-5. I start the proces...

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One Push Web Site Deployment With Git -

http://blog.lzahq.tech/2015/03/22/One-Push-Web-Site-Deployment-With-Git

One Push Web Site Deployment With Git. I recently migrated from a hosted code solution with Github, to a locally stored git repo for my web server. This one. I thought I was pretty good with Git; I was able to clone, pull, commit, and push, but my usage was limited to just that. Creating the repo was simple, but creating an automated push system took a little more finesse. Enter. I had never used or even heard of them, but using them I was able to create a script that automated web site updates. Now I ca...

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Powershell Projects -

http://blog.lzahq.tech/2015/07/26/Powershell-Projects

I don’t talk nearly as much about Powershell as I should. Most of my home projects and hobbies involve Linux, but at my day jobs I admin a Windows domain. All of the command line skills I have transfer over into Powershell, and allow me to do some really cool things for the environments I support. I’m going to attempt sanitizing them and posting them here if I can. Here’s a list of things I’m automating and doing (have done) with Powershell:. Batch import users to Active Directory via CSV file. As I star...

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Building Modular Ansible Roles for Automating Everything -

http://blog.lzahq.tech/2016/07/18/Building-Modular-Ansible-Roles-for-Automating-Everything

Building Modular Ansible Roles for Automating Everything. One thing I’ve come to find is that it’s strengths lie in the roles. Writing a playbook that just does a bunch of tasks is small-time. If you want to reuse any of that code you have to cut/paste it out manually, which is not automating anything. Forget about the playbooks, you want to build out roles. Roles are building blocks. Start off simple and small, and make complex configurations in separate blocks. Installs MySQL from base repositories and...

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About -

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My name is Lance. I’m a systems engineer in Southern California. I like nerd things like python scripts and FreeBSD. I write posts here in my spare time, which is rarely ever. This site is powered by Jekyll. The theme was created by Muan. The posts written entirely with vim; the code located on Github.

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Home Setup and Tinkering -

http://blog.lzahq.tech/2015/01/05/Home-Setup-and-Tinkering

Home Setup and Tinkering. EDIT: This page is old. See my new setup. I think the best way to describe my home network and computer setup is,. Ballin’ on a budget. My main PC is some old HP I got from Craigslist, my tester laptops are hand-me-downs from a relative, and my main device is a fresh Lenovo IdeaPad; the most expensive rig in the house. This of course beats the. A very old machine I inherited from my wife’s grandmother. The workhorse is the HP machine running my favorite Linux distro, Debian.

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Automating AWS Installs with Ansible -

http://blog.lzahq.tech/2015/01/04/Automating-AWS-Installs-With-Ansible

Automating AWS Installs with Ansible. I just started using Ansible. And am really impressed with it’s capabilities. I feel like a fool for doing shit manually. I initially used it for work purposes, pinging all my pfSense nodes for VPN report. I decided to try my hand at automating my Amazon Web Services instance. I created a new instance in the AWS web console, and downloaded the default SSH key, placing it in my SSH folder. Added another entry into my SSH config. And created a new text file,. Ansible-p...

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Using pfSense's PHP Shell -

http://blog.lzahq.tech/2015/01/09/Using-pfSense's-PHP-Shell

Using pfSense's PHP Shell. If you’re not familiar with pfSense yet, you should be kicking yourself. It is without a doubt, the best firewall/router I have ever used. It is based on FreeBSD so SSH and shell scripts make it easy to manage, plus it is open source and. Install it to any PC, or if you’re cool like me, get yourself an ALIX appliance. Check out the pfSense project here:. Https:/ www.pfsense.org/about-pfsense/. Friends don’t let friends use consumer networking equipment. TJ @ bsdnow.tv. It would...