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In general over the years, my Macs have just worked. I've seen none of the weird behavior with them that I have with Windows. However last week I encountered something new. On startup or login, I would see the WiFi indicator pulse as it tried to get ...
Note that since I managed to brick one adapter trying to do this I disclaim responsibility if you, dear reader, try it and fail. On the other hand, I searched the Internet high and low for anyone else that was successful flashing these adapters witho...
This might be the best keyboard I have ever used. The Atreus. Image courtesy of keyboard.io. There’s something about computer keyboards…even in this age of tablets and phones they remain the primary way we get significant amounts of text and code int...
I’ve been enjoying OpenSUSE’s Tumbleweed distribution. It has all of the benefits of a rolling release like Arch without some of the instability. Unfortunately, my standby for lots of testing, LXC, doesn’t quite work out of the box. You can retrieve ...
Using SaltStack to recover from CVE-2015–0235 (Qualys Security Advisory, GHOST: glibc gethostbyname buffer overflow) Most of us sysadmin types were pounded with this announcement this morning. The GHOST vulnerability is worth patching against—most Li...
Claud Xiao from Palo Alto Networks has been in touch with me and I updated this script with his recommendations. Please note I don’t plan to add Windows support, the anti-malware vendors do a great job maintaining signatures and removing stuff like t...
Several weeks ago I installed Salt on all my Macs. I have 7 currently, two of which cannot run Mavericks and are stuck at Lion (10.7). I know you can configure them to install updates automatically, but a couple of these are development machines and ...
For years I have sought the perfect email program. I’ve probably used 20 or 30 over my college years and career—starting with the venerable ‘mail’ on Dynix (caslon.cs.arizona.edu anyone?), moving to Elm, then Pine on SunOS 4, Pine as an IMAP client o...