Author: selven

Oct 5

Jenkins Git hub Pull request plugin issues

Seems at times if you are grepping a lot of these in your log messages (Symptoms could be that jenkins is not processing your pull requests not is it displaying anything on your github) SEVERE: Helper is null and Project is not disabled, unable to run trigger Well it seems, if such a thing happens, […]
Sep 28

jq

What is jq? jq can transform JSON in various ways, by selecting, iterating, reducing and otherwise mangling JSON documents.   Basically, jq is your sed for json :D.   Can be found at https://stedolan.github.io/jq/   I randomly discovered jq recently and it seems to be quite the program I hoped it would be, in terms […]
Jul 1

IT Ethics in Mauritius

Nowadays in Mauritius, the local scene seems to be flooded by a lot of vulnerabilities announcements and bug findings that are reported in public. Most probably those are reported with the idea that in doing so one can ensure the safety of our systems, or systems that we interact with, but this tendency tends to […]
Jun 28

The great ask.com debate

Warning: This article in no way was meant as a form of flame, I just wanted to clarify what seems to be going on in the Mauritian blogosphere, I usually do not do that as I have better things to do. Also, if someone is telling you that this article is crap, please ensure that […]
Jun 24

New facebook infection trending?

Hi all it seems a lot of you have started to get infected on facebook, infected people starts by sending people on their friendlist a link on which there’s a nice pic of a video with a lady with a cute cleavage, see image:   When you click on the link, you shall get an […]
Jun 1

Implications of Free Facebook in Mauritius

I usually wouldn’t be posting such stuffs, but I just wanted to be spoil the party. ЁЯША For fun. Apparently, orange is going to give out free Facebook access to its subscribers from June the 1st. The rules are apparently: Uploading pictures will costs. Accessing it via mobile is free, I suppose its m.facebook.com. Minimum […]
Jun 1

Delete files less than XMB

Hi, thought this might come in handy to people,┬а kind of got a situation where i had lots of rubbish <30M files that i needed to wipe out, did it like this: find ./ -type f -size -30M -exec rm -f {} +   ofcourse there are several ways to do this, this is just […]
May 3

Nissan Primera P12 Reverse Light Fuse

Had some issues with my Nissan Primera P12 today, while someone was helping me hack a bit my reverse light, he kinda caused a short circuit and blew up the reverse light fuse, after some time searching around, couldn’t find the proper fuse, i ended up having to pull out everything and figure this out. […]
Mar 6

App::Fatpacker stuffs they never inform you about

Neat lil app to pack the dependancy in your script without having to carry all your dependancies with your script each time. Skip at the last few lines if you just want the solution; Problem is : Can't locate Config/Any.pm in @INC (@INC contains: FatPacked::19874200=HASH(0x12f4198) /usr/local/lib64/perl5 /usr/local/share/perl5 /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib64/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 .) at /usr/local/bin/dafuq_you_dont_need_to_know_scr/masterXMLwriterFAT.pm line […]