Something that should be simple, and if I thought about it like a 3rd grader, I probably wouldn't have had any problems...
Recently, I was replacing a few old recepticals in my bathroom and I decided to install GFCI since they were within 3 feet of a water source.
Everything went exceedingly quick -
After cumulative updates on my Windows 11 computer, I ran into this issue:
Wsl/Service/CreateInstance/CreateVm/ConfigureNetworking/HNS/E_ACCESSDENIED
and WSL exited with code -1
For reference, my WSL environment is
Ubuntu version: 22.04.3 LTS
Windows version: 10.0.26100.2152
I'm writing this here so that I don't need to search so dilligently again to find this information
Microsoft is great at documenting what it does, but everything reads like Encyclopedia Britanica. Simple guides, runbooks, and how-to articles are quite sparse, or at least hard to find.
My goal here is to walk you through interracting with the API.
I was creating a playbook to scan hosts and add them to an inventory. To start, I made my ansible playbook to install
nmapon ubuntu withsnapif it wasn't already installed.
The scan worked wonderfully, until I wanted to output to a file.
$ nmap -sn 10.10.10.0/24 -oX scan.xml
Failed to open XML output file scan.xml for writing
Since I always feel like I'm learning, re-learning, trying to learn, or more importantly, somehow failing to learn / figure something out; and since people are always asking me how I do what I do... I thought I'd toss this out there; with the hope that it helps someone else.
I started playing with code in the late 70s / early 80s, on a Commodore 64 that my dad bought. He used to get tons of different science magazines, and in particular, Popular Science (I think that was the one) used to send out snippets of binary code in their magazines. Being somewhat unruly, I managed to get grounded for a couple of weeks. So, my friend and I discovered these snips; one such snip was Dig-Dug. I spent so many quarters on that dang game, so when I saw it, I was like "Whoa! Check this out! If we type these pages of 1s and 0s into the computer, we can play Dig-Dug for FREE!!
>So, we went down to my room, and started typing... line after line... column after c
There is no specific order to these learnings. They're just the random learnings of a madman, trying to learn and use docker for the first time... So, I'm just throwing them out there as I recall them. I said "madman," right? Of course these aren't in any order...