fighting the lack of good ideas
The debate is raging again as the Supreme Court of the United States is getting ready to make a decision on collecting sales tax for online sales. I’ve read as many viewpoints from supporting and detracting from requiring businesses to collect sales tax from their customers. And my [current] view is that all businesses conducting…
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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…
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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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…
With the rise of the “sharing economy”, and companies like Lyft proudly declaring 250,000 people ditched cars in favor of ride-sharing, what will be the fate of the venerable “car analogy“? Heck, what was the common analogy before cars? How will language and colloquial usage change with the [eventual] death of the car as the…
In a recent episode of Paul’s Security Weekly, an off-hand comment was made about documentation: you shouldn’t merely document what to do, nor even why, but also what you tried that didn’t work (ie, augment the status quo). The upshot being, to save whomever comes to this note next (especially if it turns out to be yourself) effort you spent that…