Anti-Systemd PeopleAnti-Systemd People
For the Technical People This post isn’t really about technology, I’ll cover the technology briefly skip to the next section if you aren’t interested in Linux programming or system administration.[...]
SE Linux Play Machine Over TorSE Linux Play Machine Over Tor
I work on SE Linux to improve security for all computer users. I think that my work has gone reasonably well in that regard in terms of directly improving security[...]
Systemd NotesSystemd Notes
A few months ago I gave a lecture about systemd for the Linux Users of Victoria. Here are some of my notes reformatted as a blog post: Scripts in /etc/init.d[...]
Conference SuggestionsConference Suggestions
LCA 2015 is next week so it seems like a good time to offer some suggestions for other delegates based on observations of past LCAs. There’s nothing LCA specific about[...]
DNSSECDNSSEC
reason=”verification failed; insecure key” I’ve recently noticed OpenDKIM on systems I run giving the above message when trying to verify a DKIM message from my own domain. According to Google[...]
wp-spamshieldwp-spamshield
Yesterday I installed the wp-spamshield plugin for WordPress [1]. It blocks automated comment spam systems by using JavaScript and cookies, apparently most spammers can’t handle that. Before I installed it[...]
BTRFS Status Dec 2014BTRFS Status Dec 2014
My last problem with BTRFS was in August [1]. BTRFS has been running mostly uneventfully for me for the last 4 months, that’s a good improvement but the fact that[...]
Links October 2014Links October 2014
The Verge has an interesting article about Tim Cook (Apple CEO) coming out [1]. Tim says “if hearing that the CEO of Apple is gay can help someone struggling to[...]
Samsung Galaxy Note 3Samsung Galaxy Note 3
In June last year I bought a Samsung Galaxy Note 2 [1]. Generally I was very happy with that phone, one problem I had is that less than a year[...]
Links September 2014Links September 2014
Matt Palmer wrote a short but informative post about enabling DNS in a zone [1]. I really should setup DNSSEC on my own zones. Paul Wayper has some insightful comments[...]