4 places to check your website’s ssl/tls security settings
Qualys – https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest High-Tech Bridge – https://www.htbridge.com/ssl Comodo – https://sslanalyzer.comodoca.com SSL Checker – https://www.sslchecker.com/sslchecker
Month: March 2018
hey, virtualbox – don’t be retarded
Ran across this error recently in an Ubuntu guest on my VirtualBox install: VBoxClient: (seamless): failed to start, Stage: Setting guest IRQ filter mask Error: VERR_INTERNAL_ERROR Gee, isn’t that a useful message. Fortunately, there was a forums.virtualbox thread on just this error. The upshot is that this error is actually caused because of a failure…
more thoughts on `|stats` vs `|dedup` in splunk
Yesterday I wrote-up a neat little find in Splunk wherein running stats count by … is substantially faster than running dedup …. After some further reflection over dinner, I figured out the major portion of why this is – and I feel a little dumb for not having thought of it before. (A coworker added some…
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splunk oddity #17681 – stats vs table
It’s fairly common to want to table the data you’ve found in a search in Splunk – heck, if you’re not prettying the data up somewhy, why are you bothering with the tool? But I digress. There are two (at least) ways of making a table – you can use the |table <field(s)> syntax, or…
a lot of travel
Over the past month, and through the end of March, I’ve done, and will be doing, a lot of travel for work. Nothing I haven’t done before, but it’s been a long time since I’ve had to be onsite for more than a couple weeks at a time – most customer leap at the chance…