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9 things (+ a bonus) we negotiate in IT contracts for our clients. These are the things that can đ„ you big time. If your lawyer is focused on commas and wordplay that's not a good sign. Steal this list for yourself and let me know if I've missed anything! 1/ Auto-renewal
Chances are youâve arrived here from a link sent to you via email. That email would have been a reply to one you originally sent that would have sounded something like this: Hi, I came across your blog on [thing] and I must admit, it was really nicely written.
IETF Approves TLS 1.3 as Internet Standard/ [https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ietf-approves-tls-13-as-internet-standard/] > IETF members voted the protocol unanimously, even after members of the financial sector asked for the introduction of a backdoor in the protocolâs structure, so financial institutions could decrypt TLS 1.3 traffic inside
Over the course of the past 24 hours, a new Ransomware campaign has been launched against organizations around the globe, mostly in Europe and specifically in the Ukraine. This campaign appears to be leveraging a new variant of the Petya (or Petrwrap) Ransomware. Similar to the recent WannaCry Ransomware outbreak,
#1 Secure your email account Your email account is the central point of your digital life. If you lose access to it, or more importantly if someone else gains access to it the damage can be catastrophic. Every service you use online links back to your email address. Think about
CloudFlare went on the offensive this week with their peering disputes. Maybe I should frame this as CloudFlareâs desire to peer with the regional monopolies that basically refuse to peer with anyone: > there are six expensive networks (HiNet, Korea Telecom, Optus, Telecom Argentina, Telefonica, Telstra) that are more than
AKA, everything youâve wanted to know about Traceroute but have been afraid to ask. > In 2009 at NANOG 47 Richard A Steenbergen (aka RAS) gave a talk titled: âA Practical Guide to (Correctly) Troubleshooting with Tracerouteâ. This presentation is very thorough and breaks down how the tool works, how
> Artur Bergman is the founder and CEO of Fastly. He was CTO at Wikia, managed LiveJournalâs engineering team, and was an operations architect at Six Apart. He gave a keynote at Velocity recently talking about DDoS attacks and their impact on your team. https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/ddos-emotions?
As an odd consequence of being so stable. I find our FreeBSD boxes are always running EOL software. Then the struggle starts of not wanting to upgrade because the box works perfectly fine. This one for example is being upgraded to 10.0-RELEASE via a quick stop at 9.2-RELEASE:
I've been doing some spring cleaning in my hard drive and stumbled across these Apache + modssl/OpenSSL + modperl/Perl installation instructions from over a decade ago. It's really remarkable how far Open Source has come in that time. Steps: # extract the packages $ gzip -d -c apache_1.3.x.tar.
What is the 95th percentile? The 95th percentile is a method for metering bandwidth that allows a customer to burst over their Committed Information Rate (CIR). Unlike a fixed network link, a customer is able subscribe to a CIR at a fraction (usually 10-20%) of the interface speed, but when
There is no way to explain the impact that Scouting has had on my life. Probably the simplest is the Scout Law: > Trustworthy, Loyal, Helpful, Friendly, Courteous, Kind, Obedient, Cheerful, Thrifty, Brave, Clean & Reverent There is not a day of my life that that hasn't rattled through my head. This
In the spirt of public accountability, here are my New Years resolutions: * Migrate this Blog to Jekyll * Loose 20 lbs before my Birthday (this is a pound a week â no problem). Accomplished via: sweat every day, make carbs the exception â not the rule, balance indoor life with the outdoors. * Get
Trim comments and spaces from a file: > $ grep ^[^#] file âThe regex ^[^#] matches the first character of any line, as long as that character that is not a #. Because blank lines donât have a first character theyâre not matched either, resulting in a nice compact output of just the
Iâm an extensive user of â+C / â+V to copy and paste between application screens. One thing that has consistently driven me crazy is the intermediate step of pasting to plain text to remove formatting. I guess I finally had enough and found this gem over the weekend â itâs
These were captured at a leadership/team building event back in October of 2010: > * Sometimes you have to go backwards to go forward. * Failures lead to success. * Easier from the outside looking in than being there. * Pausing before next unknown step when any step is in fact forward progress.
Well you canât exactly remove the Apps, but it turns out that you can hide them. Just go to: > Settings > General > Parental Controls As you scroll down you will see every App with the ability to hide it. Source: http://finerthings.in/featured/apple-tv-hide-apps
Spaces vs. Tabs are generally annoying when editing files, but start programing in Python and this turns into a complete disaster. Simple solution, always insert Spaces instead of a Tab and you are good to go (my personal preference): set tabstop=4 set shiftwidth=4 set expandtab If you want
California (and the rest of the US) is well into a phase out of incandescent bulbs [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-out_of_incandescent_light_bulbs#United_States] . If youâve purchased a light bulb lately you might have noticed that 75 Watt and higher incandescent bulbs are non-existant in
My own personal evolution of the shopping list. Used when I run out of something in the kitchen. 1. Add item to a list on the refrigerator door. (Pre 2009) 2. Add item to a task list on my iPhone. (2009 â 2011) 3. Scan UPC code with Amazon App, delivered