Matt Snow
Technology Generalist. Linux, Containers, Networking, Security.
I love The Oatmeal. The site only has self promoting ads for the Oatmeal store. The author & artist, Matt Inman, is genuinely a funny guy with a sense of humor that really is the core of man.
Some jerks at funnyjunk.com who repost other's work on their ad ridden …
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my SSL cert expired with godaddy and my "wonderful" VPS hosting provider knocked my vm offline, again. the joys of cheap hosting.
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What is "it"? switching from GoDaddy.com to Namecheap for domain registration. I refuse to support a business that WANTS to oppress the internet and its users, consumers, and creators.
fuck you, Godaddy, and your elephant hunting (ex-)CEO.
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going to try and start attending the SF Bay Area Large Scale Production Engineering meetup. we'll see how things go. :)
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Listening to the 2008 (Is innovation withering on the vine?) talk from Judy Estrin she made a very interesting point my none managing brain never thought of.
when you ask a question judgmentally you will get a different answer than when you ask it openly. Example: "When will XYZ be …
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Sony is late maybe too late, to the realm of mobile gaming. The new Experia Play from Sony Ericsson is "sporting" what is now considered old mobile tech. There are dual-core ARM SOCs out now, but Sony Ericsson decided a 1GHz Snapdragon SOC, also found in the HTC Incredible (among …
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I found this blog recently [
http://lincgeek.org/blog/ ] that contains a
ton of posts that are right up my alley!
Historically, i've not been the blogger type or much of a writer but
lately i've been feeling the urge to just write. I know some of that
inspiration is …
taken from: Dirk's Junk Box.
The Programmer's 10 commandments
Tue, 03/04/2008 - 22:49 — Dirk
After more than a decade in the IT Industry, I have found, that few
junior programmers make a success of their careers. Below I list what I
consider the 10 commandments of a programmer …
Just doing some friendly nmap scans on an internal network and found this.
Interesting ports on 192.168.200.253: Not shown: 995 closed ports PORT STATE SERVICE 22/tcp open ssh 80/tcp open http 443/tcp open https 5120/tcp open unknown 5555/tcp open freeciv MAC Address …
Tomorrow is my last day as a sysadmin for Greenplum. It's been an awesome ride and I am thankful for the opportunity the company has given me. Next week I begin a new role at Xilinx working with a couple of great friends supporting a large and growing team of …
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I was reading this blog post by Matt Simmons (a stand alone sysadmin like myself) he linked to a great security blog mckeay.net where I read this post. I found it oh so amusing as I've seen the same sort of thing at work.
Hopefully nobody from work reads …
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Apple has decided that ZFS on OSX will never be.
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I am beginning to agree with this man's philosophy.
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interesting list. I had no idea. :)
20 WordPress Security Plugins, plus Tips and Tricks.
Update@2014/10/25 - WordPress, you suck. You're a glutten for spying on the internet, and your frequent security issues make you a terrible date.
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getting ready to move back to Santa Cruz after five and a half years in the Silicon Valley. Work is as crazy as ever being mostly a one man show. Always playing catch up, and trying to make sure everyone is happy.
Right now my RSS reader shows 772 unread …
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come on people, who believes this?!?!?!!
From SGT. Vaja U. Mailier sgt.vaja.uta@mailier.com reply-to: sgt.vaja_uta@mailier.com to: date Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 11:07 PM subject: Greetings! Good day and compliments, I know this letter will definitely come to you as a huge …
I started using Geektool 3 a
month or so ago when I caught wind of the rewrite. Yann Bizeul(the
author) has significant improvements over the 2.x versions and new
builds have been rolling out nightly for up to RC3(current).
As a UNIX/Linux System/Network/Security administrator …
For the longest time(my career as a sysadmin) if I would see a byte
count in gigabyte/terabyte length, I would whip out `bc -l` in a
terminal and run
Today I'm back at work! It felt great to get some time away from the chaos but am kind of glad to be back. I really need to do the "take time off and not check email" thing more often. Makes me love my job again.
Here is a random …
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thinking that its time to start blogging about my daily brainfarts and figuring things out. i'm a big fan of Matty over at prefetch.net. our day jobs seem to be very similar.
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After a year and seven months at a database company I finally learned
something about database design.
Unique identifiers are a must thing to have in database tables. Foriegn
keys are cool but a unique ID is better. :)
So Friday my boss and a colleage come to me while I'm in the server room working on cabling. They both look like they want to ask me for something. They do... "matt, how would you like to take an all expense paid trip to troy Michigan?". I reluctantly ask …
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Work picked up an iPhone for me. Good times.
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I'm headed back to work today. Very scared by the intern3ts. Defcon is always such an eye opening event. Computers have come a long way yet still programmers/coders for paid products care less and less about security. For once I applaud microsoft for trying to have heap overflow protection …
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wednesday night a few buddies and I will be boarding a WRX near us to drive to Las Vegas for Defcon 16. there is for sure to be some good talks, great conversation with some of the smartest minds in security, and a bit of partying at the hofbrauhaus and …
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i'm no longer using WheatBlog due to the lack of captcha for comments. The fucking spammers are relentless.
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