Last night I wrote an email advising a client about the Heartbleed vulnerability and its impact on operations. I'm posting that here, as it's a little more balanced and professional (and better written) than the blog entry I wrote last night. Of course I've omitted names to protect my clients' …
Articles in the Technology category
- Tagged as: Data Security
Heartbleed OpenSSL Vulnerability and Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Servers
Introduction
I'm trying not to be alarmist, but it seems we've got a "holy fucking shit" security bug that everyone who runs a server needs to be aware of. And that everyone who uses the Internet needs to be aware of. Note that this was written on April 7, 2014 …
Tagged as: Data SecurityAnnouncing Two New Free Demos for AT&T's M2X Project
I'm doing some work on demo projects for AT&T's M2X.1 Prior to this there was example code, but there wasn't a quick and easy way of getting a working example going.
I've now created two new demos, with two hosting options:
The Vagrant demo, of course …
Working Around VirtualBox Bug 12879
If you're using Vagrant and you've upgraded to the latest version of VirtualBox (4.3.10 as of March 25, 2014), and you've got vagrant-vbguest installed (as you should) then you've undoubtedly run into a nasty bug:
default: /vagrant => /YOUR_VAGRANT_DIRECTORY Failed to mount folders in Linux guest. This is usually …
Tagged as: VagrantPutting my VirtualBox & Vagrant Virtual Machines on a Ramdisk
I do a lot of work with virtual machines (mainly Vagrant / VirtualBox instances for my DevOps work) and speed is a huge issue for me.
When I started at my new job I requested the fastest computer I could find -- a new iMac with an SSD drive -- and it's still …
Working at Citrusbyte
I'm incredibly excited to be working at Citrusbyte. I'm not sure how much I can say about how they work, but I know I can say this: They do their best to work according to the video and blog posts on this "How Github Works" page.
I remember reading those …
Tagged as: AutobiographyFixing OS X ACL Entries for Deleted Users
I had my favorite kind of consulting gig recently -- a friend who runs a consulting company called, and said he had a problem his guys couldn't figure out. I love being tech support for other smart geeks!
It's pretty hard to find a solution to this on Google, so I …
Schof.org Status Update
It's time for some Inside Baseball about schof.org. There haven't been too many change to the site that most people noticed, but I've made some significant changes under-the-hood, and I thought I'd take a moment to speak about them, and also about the tools I use to make this …
Tagged as: ObsoleteSublime Text as an Emacs Replacement
I've been an Emacs guy for a while, for the following reasons:
- You should pick one editor, and learn it deeply.
- Emacs works on my OS X desktops and on the Linux/Unix computers I SSH to. This means I can use the same keyboard commands to edit text locally …
This is my blog. There are many like it, but this one is mine.
I can't access my old tweets on Twitter -- Twitter supposedly has them, but it won't let me see them.
Facebook has privacy failed far too many times to mention here. Is there anyone who pays attention who actually likes Facebook instead of just using it because they feel social pressure …
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