Noah Bailey

Today, I got an email inquiring about a job opportunity.

For many years we’ve taken for granted the ability to settle any argument with Wikipedia.

On the 19th of January 2020, a malicious actor launched an attack against my home infrastructure.

Over the years, I’ve chewed through quite a few different routers, firewalls, even virtual appliances to connect my home network to the internet.

Do you live in North Korea or Iran?

TL;DR The default settings for Logstash index rotation are bad and will break your cluster after a few months unless you change the rotation strategy.

Think of it like, “OpenStack for cheapskates.”

Do you ever just update everything?

With the move from sysvinit to systemd, there were lots of small but important changes to the Linux ecosystem.

Hot take: Stop putting your ssh keys on GitHub!!!

I have, for a long time, been fascinated and terrified by “Virtual SAN” solutions.

Editor’s note (2021-01): This particular hacking method no longer works after 2019-11 windows update.

I don’t like Microsoft NPS.

Ever wanted pull up the password for a WiFi network your computer remembers but you don’t?

No, I would not like to say hello, Cortana.

Deploying MSI installers with group policy is super neat and super handy….

Preface: Don’t do this on prod gear.

Cisco IOS.

Everybody and their aunt has a NAS at home, but what about something with a bit more pizzazz?

In 2018 I decided to stop worrying and embrace the cloud.

Based in London, Ontario, Canada.

I make computers behave themselves.