fighting the lack of good ideas
Let me compare the experience I wrote about yesterday to another I had the same year with the first customer I was ever sent to – HSBC. Just a couple weeks after starting with ProServe in 2008, I was sent to Chicago to do a final PoC for HSBC. Someone else had done a PoC…
Back in August 2008, I had a one-week “quick start” professional services engagement in Nutley New Jersey. It was supposed to be a super simple week: install HP Server Automation at BT Global. Another ProServe engineer was onsite to setup HP Network Automation. Life was gonna be easy-peasy – the only deliverable was to setup…
I wrote an article on passwords, passphrases, entropy, and data breaches for my employer’s blog: https://augustschell.com/passwords-passphrases-complexity-length-crackability-memorability-data-breaches
Schneier has a recent article on security concerns for IoT (internet of things) devices -Â IoT Cybersecurity: What’s Plan B? We can try to shop our ideals and demand more security, but companies don’t compete on IoT safety — and we security experts aren’t a large enough market force to make a difference. We need a…
I recently ran across this helpful Digital Ocean community answer about creating a swap file at droplet creation time. So I decided to test how long using my old method (using dd) takes to run vs using fallocate. Here’s how long it takes to run fallocate on a fresh 40GB droplet: root@ubuntu:/# rm swapfile &&…
I’ve published another super-simple tool. A la whatismyip.com, but with no extra cruft (and no queer formatting of the IP address under the hood), welcome IPv4.cf to the world with me!
As you all know, I am a huge zombie fan. And, as you probably know, I was a CIS/CS major/minor at Elon. A concept I was introduced to at both Shodor and Elon was ant colony simulations. And I realized today that many people have been introduced to the basics concepts of ant colony simulations…
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