I’ve been schooling myself on Evolutionary Biology for about 3 or 4 years.
I dropped out of college after my freshman year because Undergrad was then,
and is still is today a lifeless process of rote memorization. During that
time, I didn’t learn to learn, or learn anything more than “here are the
rules, and if you don’t follow [...]
I got back from YAPC::NA #10 yesterday. There was a lot of sleeping required to recover from a tech conference with 8 am talks! A Twitter Search for “yapc” indicates I’m not the only one slow to recover those missing hours of sleep.
Overall the conference was a fantastic success. There were highs [...]
I’ve been doing web application development for years in several languages. I’ve spent time with PHP, Java, but primarily Perl. I consider myself a “Perl Programmer” first, everything else second. Until recently, most people would equate that to “Dinosaur.” However, there’s been a revival of Perl these days! There are [...]
Tagged catalyst, dbix::class, mason, moose, oop, perl, perl::critic, phpFor several years I’ve managed to bend cfEngine 2.0’s architecture to my will. Being an experienced Perl programmer, I was able to abuse the configuration language snytax in order to accomplish a number of strange things including Copy Back and automated management of OSSEC-HIDS. However, there comes a point when the managing the cfengine configs [...]
Tagged cfengine, linux, puppet, rubyIn our first installment, we looked at some solutions to provide a hospitable environment for proxy evasion. Today, we’ll dig deep into how to do this with my favorite protocol of all time, SSH.
OpenSSH is a glorious implementation of a critical network protocol. Most networks have disabled and banned the use of [...]
I love cfengine. There are tons of resources out there for managing all kinds of common and uncommon system administration tasks. Rather than regurgitate all that information I wanted to share how I worked around what has been noted as a short coming of cfengine, clients copying information back to the master server.
Tagged cfengine, managementThere are a ridiculous number of organizations using transparent proxying as a means to limit access to external resources. The idea is that by proxying all web traffic, they can keep employees from visiting porn sites. I’m not necessarily convinced that this does them much good. My general experience has been that [...]
Tagged evasion, proxy, security, sshThe American Populace is being inconvenienced, spied on, stripped of Constitutional Rights, and taxed without any idea where that money is going. The perpetrator is not some foreign, militant, activist group, it’s our own Government. There’s no outcry. All of these treacheries are being committed to increase security while the fact remains [...]
Tagged management, policy, securityAs you may or may not know, I am gainfully employed by the Federal Government in the area of Information Security. Recently the Bush Administration responded to media hype to issue a Federal Mandate requiring all government owned laptops use encryption technologies to encrypt their data.
There are two interpretations of this memo.
Encrypt the ENTIRE [...]
Tagged dumb, fde, management, policy, security