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Big Sur DDJ 1000 Driver Update
Currently the Mac Audio Driver for Pioneer’s Rekordbox fails to install on Big Sur. This is because Big Sur has upgraded to perl 5.28, which restricts the way it reads files. See Error’s below on this. The good news is that your system should also include perl 5.18. However it’s difficult to change versions, without…
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Softlinks in Synology
The FileStation UI will not let you create a softlink. You will only be able to create “shortcuts,” which are either under favorites, or desktop. However, since Synology is basically an Alpine based Linux System, it is simple to log into the box through SSH and create a symlink using the command: This will easily…
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Monitoring a Synology Filesystem with AWS SQS
Use Case I would like to monitor events from a Synology NFS mount on another system. Solution Python module to monitor and forward filesystem events to an AWS SQS queue, that my external system can monitor and act upon Install Python 3 on Synology To do this, visit the Synology Package Center, search for “python”…
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$b Contracts Distribution
07/20 Contract Distribution snapshot, of stocks with more than $1B in outstanding contracts Row Labels CALL PUT Grand Total AAPL 8B 1B 9B AMZN 12B 1B 12B FB 1B 0B 2B MSFT 2B 0B 2B QQQ 2B 1B 3B SPY 4B 2B 6B TSLA 11B 1B 12B Grand Total 40B 5B 46B Call/Put Distribution of…
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49″ Widescreen Monitors
Can’t live without your dual screen? Try one of these 49″ Ultra Widescreen Monitors on for size: Samsung CHG 90, or DELL Ultra Sharp, Ultra Widescreen, 49″ Monitor. In January, I decided to pick up the Samsung CHG 90. An Ultra Widescreen, 49″ freesync monitor to replace my dual screen monitors. At first I was…
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Disabling the Master Realm
One of the recommendations from Keycloak, is to limit the access to the master realm, or use the system without it. However, before we do so, you must first ensure that your other realms has an administrator that can manage it. After which, we can safely disable the Master realm and manage our secondary realms…
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Keeping passwords out
Most development projects rely on protected, external resources, such as databases, or rest services; and many times, for the sake of simplified testing, we add those credentials to our configuration files, which, if accidentally leaks to the wrong person, can become a painful and expensive issue. In this article, I will demonstrate how to avoid…
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An Apache Zeppelin Test with Google Sheets
A 5min POC using google sheets in Zeppelin. Testing how easy it would be to drop data into a spreadsheet, then analyze it using Zeppelin. First go into https://docs.google.com and create a new spreadsheet, which would be used for collecting your data. Alternatively, my copy of bank.csv, which is used in this example, can be…
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User Synchronization in APS from Keycloak
TL;DR : Using keycloak as an IDM or LDAP Domain Aggregator Download the APS Identity Sync Extension: https://github.com/alex4u2nv/aps-ais-authority-sync/releases/download/v1.0.0/aps-identity-sync-java-1.0.0-jar-with-dependencies.jar Configure APS to Integrate with Keycloak as in the example activiti-identity-service.properties Configure Keycloak to integrate with multiple LDAP domains via User Federation service. Authenticate into APS using users that were synchronized. If Keycloak authentication is enabled, then authenticate…
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How to get Docker Vault going in no time
Quick Steps Walkthrough This walk through is targeted for audiences who are new to Vault, or dev ops who just need an API to develop auto deployment scripts against. A production environment should be installed and operated by a Hashicorp Vault expert. Pull and Run Pull the docker image and run it in the foreground…