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Getting the GitHub Verified commit badge when using Visual Code on Mac OS X

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The Issue

Recently I’ve started to use Visual Code as my editor on Mac OS X, and using it with my GitHub Repos. It’s pretty cool! However I noticed that when I submit a commit via code, I do not see the verified badge.

github commit view - verified

The Cause

When I look at my global git config on my Mac OS X machine, I can see that I’ve configured the settings so that my user details are passed to GitHub as an author of the repository.

git config --global --list

git config --global --list

The Fix

We need to setup a GPG public key to be used by git on our machine when interacting with GitHub. Continue reading Getting the GitHub Verified commit badge when using Visual Code on Mac OS X →

VMware CMTY Podcast Appearance – Discussing Tanzu Mission Control and vROPs

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Thanks to this blog post, I was delighted to be invited as a guest on the VMware CMTY Podcast (YouTube Page) hosted by Eric Nielsen and Matt Langguth. 

Originally I was going to discuss the out of the box vROPs dashboards such as finding out how long a VM has been powered off for, however Eric threw a curve ball at me 5 minutes before the podcast asking if I would discuss my more recent blog posts on Tanzu Mission Control, Tanzu Kubernetes Grid and then wrap up with vROPs.

It was a fun session!

Find this on your favourite podcast platform under “VMware CMTY Podcast” such as the below:

Regards

Dean Lewis

Ubuntu – apt-get update fails “The repository no longer has a Release file”

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The Issue

Running sudo apt-get update or sudo apt update fails with the following or similar errors:

Hit:1 http://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt eoan-pgdg InRelease
Ign:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu eoan InRelease
Ign:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu eoan-updates InRelease
Ign:4 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu eoan-backports InRelease
Ign:5 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu eoan-security InRelease
Err:6 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu eoan Release
404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.142 80]
Err:7 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu eoan-updates Release
404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.142 80]
Err:8 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu eoan-backports Release
404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.142 80]
Err:9 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu eoan-security Release
404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.142 80]
Reading package lists... Done
E: The repository 'http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu eoan Release' no longer has a Release file.
N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.
E: The repository 'http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu eoan-updates Release' no longer has a Release file.
N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.
E: The repository 'http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu eoan-backports Release' no longer has a Release file.
N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.
E: The repository 'http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu eoan-security Release' no longer has a Release file.
N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.
The Cause

Older releases of Ubuntu are moved to an archive server, so you need to update your repo lists.

The Fix
# backup your sources file
cp /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.bak 

# replace the links with the archive address
sudo sed -i -re 's/([a-z]{2}.)?archive.ubuntu.com|security.ubuntu.com/old-releases.ubuntu.com/g' /etc/apt/sources.list

# run update again
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Regards

Dean Lewis
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Download Releases from Github using Curl and Wget

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The issue

I was trying to download a software release from GitHub using Curl and hitting an issue, the file wasn’t large enough for a start, it was unusable and clearly not the file I expected.

curl -O https://github.com/kastenhq/external-tools/releases/download/3.0.12/k10tools_3.0.12_linux_amd64


% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 635 100 635 0 0 2387 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 2387

I tested this in a browser and found the link redirects elsewhere, hence the issue.

The Fix

Just needed to specify a few extra arguments.

curl -LJO https://github.com/kastenhq/external-tools/releases/download/3.0.12/k10tools_3.0.12_linux_amd64

# Explanation of the arguments

-L, --location      Follow redirects
-J, --remote-header-name Use the header-provided filename
-O, --remote-name   Write output to a file named as the remote file

If you wish to use wget instead.

wget --content-disposition https://github.com/kastenhq/external-tools/releases/download/3.0.12/k10tools_3.0.12_linux_amd64

# Explanation of the argument 
--content-disposition        honor the Content-Disposition header when choosing local file names (EXPERIMENTAL)

Regards

Dean Lewis
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Using Google Analytics to view your visitors exact referral page and landing page

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Just a quick one as this was really annoying me and I have to click around to remember how to find the info each time.

The Issue

When viewing my page stats in JetPack on WordPress, I can see referrals from forums such as from Veeam, but I’ve no idea why I’m getting hits, is someone sharing my content on there?

referrals jetpack

This is the way

I’ve setup Google Analytics to give me further information on the traffic to my site. See this blog post here.

Once logged into the Google Analytics homepage and data is collecting.

  1. Go to Acquisition
  2. Expand All Traffic
  3. Click Referrals
  4. Set the time frame you’re interested in
  5. Either search for your referrer and then click on the referrer

Google Analytics referrals

Below I’ve clicked to limit the views to the referral traffic source as “forums.veeam.com”.

You can click the highlighted source filter to change to the various referral listings. At the bottom I can see which page the users visited my website from, rather than just the high-level domain.

Clicking the little outbound link symbol will take you to the exact referral page.

Google Analytics referrals filtered

You can also change this view to show you the landing page on your website, so where did the user go to.

Under Primary dimension (above your referral paths), change the setting for Other to Landing Page.

Google Analytics - primary dimension - landing page

Hope this helps!

Regards

Dean Lewis