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Python – some truth in this… « mattfahrner.com
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Laquo; More on “tiny” URLs…. Using LDAP Paged Controls with Python. Python – some truth in this…. By Matt Fahrner, on May 26th, 2014. I have to say even as a relative newcomer to Python, I find a fair bit of truth in this:. Should I be looking to yet another language that isn’t so willing to shoot itself in the foot? Not all environments, even if they should be, are Puppet-perfect and portability is still a major requirement. All that said, as Python becomes more “native” to my mentality, may...Fix VMwar...
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Using LDAP Paged Controls with Python « mattfahrner.com
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Laquo; Python – some truth in this…. How to probe ethernet capabilities…. Using LDAP Paged Controls with Python. By Matt Fahrner, on March 9th, 2014. Because using LDAP paging. Isn’t very difficult there’s not a lot of reason to not. Use it. Adding paging only marginally reduces performance, while certainly putting less stress on the LDAP server(s). Personally I recommend you use it on a general basis, even where not strictly necessary. If you're talking to LDAP, you should be using LDAPS for security!
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Get rid of annoying “People Pane” in Outlook « mattfahrner.com
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Laquo; If you needed one reason…. More on “tiny” URLs…. Get rid of annoying “People Pane” in Outlook. By Matt Fahrner, on June 7th, 2014. I wouldn’t mind the “People Pane”, except that in our organization is shows nothing useful. Moreover for a reason I cannot fathom, it always gets opened up, taking enormous reading real estate. So from this. Outlook 2010 at least):. Click the “View” tab:. Select “People Pane” and set it to “Off”:. Same two steps work on Outlook 2013. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. The vie...
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Networking « mattfahrner.com
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How to probe ethernet capabilities…. By Matt Fahrner, on March 5th, 2014%. Mostly for my own edification – use “ethtool”, eg:. You’ll note two important details about this output:. This NIC is gig capable but is only running at 100mbs. I claim to be running this as root, but any good sysad should be using “sudo” instead! Anyway, simple command, but sometimes you forget them. Rarr; Read More: How to probe ethernet capabilities…. Why is WLAN “signal quality” in negative decibels? The computer industry is t...
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Swift to C++ « mattfahrner.com
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Laquo; IC3 Alert on Microchip-Enabled (EMV) Credit Cards. If you needed one reason…. By Matt Fahrner, on February 10th, 2015. So having just watched a great webcast from O’Reilly on Swift. And certainly having plenty more to learn):. Protocols = Pure Virtuals. Extensions = Class Derivation/Extension/Overloading on steroids. Operator Overloading = Operator Overloading, again on steroids. Closures = well, nothing innate, but pretty much same thing as Python Closures. If you needed one reason…. I've worked ...
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Using LDAP Paged Controls with Python « mattfahrner.com
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Laquo; Python – some truth in this…. How to probe ethernet capabilities…. Using LDAP Paged Controls with Python. By Matt Fahrner, on March 9th, 2014. Because using LDAP paging. Isn’t very difficult there’s not a lot of reason to not. Use it. Adding paging only marginally reduces performance, while certainly putting less stress on the LDAP server(s). Personally I recommend you use it on a general basis, even where not strictly necessary. If you're talking to LDAP, you should be using LDAPS for security!
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Python « mattfahrner.com
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Python – some truth in this…. By Matt Fahrner, on May 26th, 2014%. I have to say even as a relative newcomer to Python, I find a fair bit of truth in this:. Working in a non-homogenous (that is, heterogeneous OS) environment where Python 2.x vs. Python 3.x is not guaranteed, the lack of backwards (or forwards) compatibility is problematic. If nothing else it erodes . . . → Read More: Python – some truth in this…. Using LDAP Paged Controls with Python. By Matt Fahrner, on March 9th, 2014%. The views expre...
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Windows « mattfahrner.com
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Windows 10 under Fusion sluggish. By Matt Fahrner, on October 24th, 2015%. If you made the mistake of upgrading your virtual copy of Windows under Mac OS X using VMware Fusion (version 8 here), you may find Windows 10 runs painfully sluggish. The answer? Disable 3D graphics acceleration. Shut down the virtual machine. Bring up the virtual machine settings ( E). Select “Display”:. Deselect . . . → Read More: Windows 10 under Fusion sluggish. Get rid of annoying “People Pane” in Outlook. I’m writing ...
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If you needed one reason… « mattfahrner.com
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Laquo; Swift to C. Get rid of annoying “People Pane” in Outlook. If you needed one reason…. By Matt Fahrner, on August 21st, 2014. To watch the “ IT Crowd. 8220;, this alone would be it:. Laquo; Swift to C. Get rid of annoying “People Pane” in Outlook. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. You can use these HTML tags. A href= title= abbr title= acronym title= b blockquote cite= cite code class= title= data-url= del datetime= em i q cite= s strike strong pre class= title= data-url= span class= title= data-url=.
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Humor « mattfahrner.com
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If you needed one reason…. By Matt Fahrner, on August 21st, 2014%. To watch the “IT Crowd“, this alone would be it:. Out of the mouths of Astronauts…. By Matt Fahrner, on November 7th, 2013%. Applies to IT as well:. 8220;And it’s worth remembering, too, there’s no problem so bad that you can’t make it worse also.”. 8211; Commander Chris Hadfield, Canadian Astronaut. Apparently George Romero was right…. By Matt Fahrner, on November 18th, 2010%. He was just wrong that humans would be the target. 8216;Cause...