fighting the lack of good ideas
Imagine you are Gus Gorman, and you live in the United States a country which uses the Electoral College for their national election process while each state or province may award electors based on the popular vote (either an all-or-nothing approach, or proportionally), a pure most votes count does not necessarily indicate a... continue gus gorman takes on the election
Any time someone who does not understand the practical outworkings of a given topic tries to teach it, you end up with a presentation mostly in the form of propositional statements (dogs are mammals; barges are boats), or key-value pairs (in 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue; Caracas is the capital of Venezuela). Propositional... continue if you do not explain the why, where, and when, the what…
Because if you don t know them, you will wish you did. And when you do know them, you will know when to not use them.
A dozen years ago, I shared an edited-for-readability chat I had with a friend on the gold standard. In it I stated: I d think that it would be better to keep the mountains and valleys more stable / less high deep, so that slowdowns aren’t felt by a disproportionately small community/niche of the economy, and so... continue bring back boom-and-bust
I had the privilege of speaking at this year s Ohio Linux Fest on the topic of syslog Slidedeck PDF https://antipaucity.com/olf2023-syslog.pdf If you would like me to give this, or any other, talk for your organization, please contact me via LinkedIn or Twitter You can watch the talk from OLF s live stream of the event... continue syslog for fun (and profit?) olf 2023 talk
A few years ago I reposted 35 questions from Inc magazine in 5 parts. Today I ran across another list of great questions to ask yourself via Chris Williamson:
Found https://github.com/jonkeegan/behind-this-website today It is a much-expanded and more-detailed version of what I wrote 2 years ago Nice job, guys
The Splunk command fieldsummary is amazing I use it quite frequently to explore more new (to me) sourcetypes, and to find out about more fields than I ve previously used in the sourcetypes I work with most. But sometimes you want to be able to delineate more granularly than fieldsummary will allow. Maybe you have... continue a rich man s fieldsummary
What thinketh ye all? Should polling places be located at churches, civic centers, fire departments, somewhere else? Why? What does the location make you think while you re casting your vote?
You may have heard of the recently-discovered/-published TLStorm vulnerability that affects at least APC SmartUPS devices. One of the prime issues highlighted is the embedded nanoSSL library that APC has used on these systems. If you want to find out if your system is affected, the following nmap except should start you towards... continue on using nmap to help find tlstorm-affected devices