Kevin Guay

Version 1 I use Zoom a lot at work and don’t always want my video on.

Speed test websites are invaluable for home internet users and system administrators alike.

In this article I use "Amazon" to refer to Amazon.com Business as opposed to Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Last weekend, Microsoft reversed its long-time recommendation that passwords should expire every few months.

In my last post about email security, I talked about why you should have strong passwords, especially for your email accounts, but I didn’t address how.

We all have long and unique passwords for all of our internet accounts, right?

I’m an IT leader working at the intersection of research, infrastructure, and security.

TL;DR Always use two factor authentication and add the phone numbers to your contacts.

TL;DR I hacked the Falcon sensor installer for MacOS to include the licensing information.

In the past, I have avoided New Years resolutions becuase I perfered to have smaller goals throughout the year.

Routine upgrade It was anything but.

We started using Zoom for video conferencing last year and it has been a huge success.

I feel fortunate to have grown up with computers.

Overview One drawback to static websites is ease of management.

New User Accounts If you manage multiple linux servers, you know that creating users can be quite a process, especially when mounting/unmounting home directories and setting up permissions is involved.

TL;DR You can use HTML in Hugo content files (markdown files) by including some (any) markdown code at the top of the page (e.g. an empty header # ).

The Gist Ansible has built-in “facts” about your hosts that make it easy to find basic information such as hostname, operating system, IP address.

The Problem Most of my servers (virtual machines) are running CentOS 6, but the new ones run CentOS 7.

Background I am responsible for a few dozen linux servers at work, and although there was an effort to install Salt a few years ago, they are all managed individually and manually.

It started with a book I have always loved book stores.