Signs of Triviality

New documents disclosed by Edward J.

clogger(1) implements a simple logging/messaging interface analogous to the common logger(1) command.

Solving complex problems can be a bitch and a half.

Notes from Velocity New York 2013

A list of links accompanying my talk on Onlien Privacy Tools from The San Francisco Public Library's One City, One Book events series.

On 9/4, I'll give a talk on Online Privacy Tools at the Ingleside branch of the San Francisco Public Library as part of their 'One City One Book' events series.

I needed to distribute a shell script and its manual page to OS X, but was unable to find a simple step-by-step explanation of which commands to run.

A list of interview questions touching upon the topic of security.

The combination of a few simple tools allows you to easily sync NIST's Vulnerability Database with your private Jira instance to automatically create tickets for newly found vulnerabilities.

One of my favorite bugs.

The 'nvd2sqlite3' utility will populate and sync NIST's Vulnerability Database into a local sqlite3 database to allow you to map public CVEs to internal tickets, packages, or otherwise keep track of the known vulnerabilities.

Many organizations already use SSH keys for access to their hosts.

Many conferences are more positive feedback loop than presentation of new ideas.

Marissa Mayer's decision to mandate that Yahoos no longer work from home is a big mistake, and it bugged me enough to actually sit down and write about it, like so many other people.

I'm in search of real -life data sets to use in teaching system administration.

Troubleshooting ssh authentication via kerberos.

A table of status messages that might be returned by Kerberos v5 in the minor_status argument.

I created a new twitter account for "interesting" commands.

A loose collection of thoughts on how companies can help enable remote employment.

A few thoughts on users, groups, and trust models in different environment.

A list of apps I've found for my kids.

An incomplete list of things and events I remember

A very brief summary of how to set up NetBSD on EC2 using an IPv6 tunnelbroker

Your peeps don't grok PGP?

How I experienced hurricane Sandy

Musings on the meaning of "System Administration" versus "Operations" versus "Ops" and "DevOps"

Why asking about the signal(3) function prototype is a useful interview question.

Some thoughts on the uselessness of licensing minor illustrations using a viral license.

How I had two file systems simultaneously write data to a RAID disk... and lost.

I wrote a simple reverse mail filter to update Jira via mail.

Over the last couple of days, I've been working on integrating Duo Security's Two-Factor Authentication with OpenVPN.

Open Sourcing code involves more than dumping your code onto GitHub.

Writing software is hard.

Self-perception and reality

Using my twistory archive to answer exciting questions such as "when does Jan sleep"..

I think Gmail is stupid.

I think cables are stupid.

I've switched jobs.

Sometimes I have ideas.

A modified excerpt and summary of a draft of what will become the third chapter my book "An Introduction to Design for Professional System Administration".

I recently used the Wayback Machine to access snapshots of my very first website, created around 1996 or so.

iCal, iPhone and iCloud - iVey!

All Good Things...

Why I left Yahoo!

Metamatter

(Some) Recruiters are People, too!

...And They're Both Probably Right

Just-in-time translation of user-provided LESS via NodeJS - Yikes!

Unpatch (!

Unix?