June 2016 - pydelion.com

17 Jun

How to test CORS using curl

curl -H "Origin: https://www.pydelion.com" \
https://static.pydelion.com/style/all.css -I  -v

09 Jun

fallocate -l 512M /mnt/swap ; \
dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/swap bs=512 count=1048576 \
 ; mkswap /mnt/swap ; swapon /mnt/swap ; swapon -s ; free -m

03 Jun

ansible MySQL replication fails to change master with the following error: ‘Sending passwords in plain text without SSL/TLS is extremely insecure.’

To fix the problem open /usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/MySQLdb/cursors.py and change:

defer_warnings = False

to

defer_warnings = True

This is ugly but it works.