Ethan Banks

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I’ll Be At Cisco Live US Las Vegas 2022. See You There?

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I’m attending Cisco Live US 2022 in Las Vegas this June. I’ll be there on the Explorer Pass, crawling the World Of Solutions and chatting with anyone and everyone. If you’ll be there and want to meet up, DM me on Twitter or ping me on LinkedIn.

How To Work With A Sponsor For Your IT Blog

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You’ve got a niche blog where you write as a deeply technical expert in a IT field such as cloud, networking, storage, development, or security. Your audience is made up of fellow nerds in similar orbits. You’ve been writing for years, and have developed a faithful audience who reads most of your stuff. After all this time, a real-deal vendor appears, wanting to place a sponsored blog post on your hallowed site. Now what?

How To Use Grep + Regex To Match Non-200 HTTP Status Codes In Apache Server Logs

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Let’s say you want to see the requests Apache is upset about. How do you filter the logs to see every entry that doesn’t have a status code in the 200s? Depending on your Apache LogFormat, you could try…

sudo grep -E ‘\” [1345][01235][0-9] [[:digit:]]{1,8} \”‘ /var/log/apache2/access.log

How To Fix Ubuntu 18.04 ‘apt update’ Throwing An NGINX Repository i386 Package Error

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If ‘apt update’ on Ubuntu 18.04 throws an error N: Skipping acquire of configured file ‘nginx/binary-i386/Packages’ as repository ‘http://nginx.org/packages/ubuntu bionic InRelease’ doesn’t support architecture ‘i386’, then replace the one line of text in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nginx.list with this line instead.

deb [arch=amd64] http://nginx.org/packages/mainline/ubuntu/ bionic nginx

How To Create A Python Function You Can Call From Other Scripts

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Writing and calling functions is a key component of the Don’t Repeat Yourself (DRY) principle of software development. Creating a function in a single script and calling that function from other scripts is preferable to performing copypasta of the same bit of code throughout several scripts. When a function lives in a single script, it only needs to be updated in that one place when it inevitably needs updating.