Monthly Archives: September 2018

How to add ICMP Echo Request to AWS Security Group from the CLI

Posted on September 27, 2018 by admin

The answer to this question is: you need to use –ip-permissions. There does not seem to be any other way to do it. Here is an example (all one line!): aws ec2 authorize-security-group-ingress –group-id sg-000000000000000 –ip-permissions IpProtocol=icmp,FromPort=’8′,ToPort=-1,IpRanges=[{CidrIp=0.0.0.0/0}] The icmp echo … Continue reading →

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How to fix STOP: 0x0000007B blue screen when moving virtualbox machine to another computer

Posted on September 22, 2018 by admin

My old pc died, and so I pulled the hard drive and copied my virtualbox machine disks onto my new computer. Since the new computer used a new version of virtualbox I couldn’t seem to get the old machine images … Continue reading →

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pip is broken with AttributeError: ‘module’ object has no attribute ‘SSL_ST_INIT’

Posted on September 4, 2018 by admin

This error is quite frustrating, and it has been occurring to me when I try to move old django sites to a new server. It is frustrating because once this happens, your pip is broken and you can’t do anything … Continue reading →

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