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def new_user(username, admin='no', comment="No comment provided"):
    log_action("New User (%s): %s" % (username, comment))
    pass


$ fab new_user:myusername
$ fab new_user:username=myusername
$ fab new_user:myusername,yes
$ fab new_user:myusername,admin=yes
$ fab new_user:myusername,admin=no,comment='Gary\, new developer (starts Monday)'

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# Load Json into a Python object

import urllib2
import json
req = urllib2.Request("http://localhost:81/sensors/temperature.json")
opener = urllib2.build_opener()
f = opener.open(req)
json = json.loads(f.read())
print json
print json['unit']

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How to Install GO Lang on CentOS / Amazon Linux?

sudo wget https://storage.googleapis.com/golang/go1.4.2.linux-amd64.tar.gz
tar -xzf go1.4.2.linux-amd64.tar.gz 
export GOROOT=PATH_WHERE_YOU_EXTRACT_GO
export PATH=$PATH:$GOROOT/bin 
export GOBIN=$GOROOT/bin 
mkdir ~/golang/ 
export GOPATH=~/golang/ 

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Subdomaining Localhost with Rails 5

I've been following this blog post on how to set up an api-only Rails 5 application. One of the sections talks about creating a subdomain for your api

Rails.application.routes.draw do
  constraints subdomain: "api" do
    scope module: "api" do

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map $http_cookie $no_cache {
  default 0;
  ~ASPXAUTH 1;
}

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# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
'''
Returns state event data for state.sls and state.highstate execution only using a tcp socket, this method of
returning data can be used for Splunk or ELK.

Each event sent represents a single state executed.

It is strongly recommended to use the ``event_return_whitelist`` so not all
events call this returner, for example:

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#!/usr/bin/env python
import salt.cli.caller
import salt.config
import argparse
import sys
import signal

class TimeoutException(Exception):
    pass

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check os

cat /etc/redhat-release

install repo

sudo rpm -Uvh http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora-epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
yum repolist

install duplicity

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import subprocess
import re

regex = re.compile('([A-Z]+)=(?:"(.*?)")')
parts = "NAME,KNAME,MODEL,UUID,SIZE,ROTA,TYPE,MOUNTPOINT,MAJ:MIN"

def blocks():
   blocks = []
   output = subprocess.check_output([
        "sudo", "lsblk", "-P", "-o", 

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from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver import DesiredCapabilities

desired_capabilities = DesiredCapabilities.PHANTOMJS.copy()
desired_capabilities['phantomjs.page.customHeaders.User-Agent'] = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_1) ' \
                                                                  'AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) ' \
                                                                  'Chrome/39.0.2171.95 Safari/537.36'
driver = webdriver.PhantomJS(desired_capabilities=desired_capabilities)