While I was scrolling through Facebook recently, this came up in my feed: I’ve blurred out the name of one of my friends at the top of the ad so as not to single them out. However, I can say with near-absolute certainty that this particular friend would not knowingly endorse anything that Ben Shapiro… Read More: Why you should turn off “Ads with your social actions”… »
I was so impressed with Samsung. I ordered a new laptop directly from their web site at 7:38pm last night. According to the emails I received while I was at work today, the laptop was shipped at 9:45am and delivered at 3:17pm. Shipping was free. Wow, awesome, right? But then I got home, and the… Read More: Fun and games with Samsung, FedEx, and recycled tracking numbers »
A legitimate email from AT&T does its level best to masquerade as a phishing email.
The Equifax breach is a big deal. There are things you need to do right now to protect yourself.
It wasn’t Constant Contact. It was never Constant Contact. Constant Contact is fine. Forget I mentioned them.
How I plumbed the depths of my email server and falsely concluded that the problem was Not My Fault.
I owe a lot of people an apology. For about the last five years, I’ve been a major cheerleader for the “CrashPlan for Home” backup service. Many times, I’ve been asked directly about what computer backup service I recommend or stumbled across a discussion of that question, and many times, I’ve unreservedly recommended CrashPlan. Their… Read More: CrashPlan jumps the shark »
This blog posting is obsolete. I’ve moved everything over to Github. There are a lot of new goodies there that aren’t here, so mosey on over and check it out. I’ve been using CrashPlan for Home for about five years. Alas, their Home product is being discontinued, and people who want to keep using CrashPlan… Read More: Backing up from Unix to Backblaze B2 using Rclone »
Where I work, we have employees who use (in decreasing order of popularity) Mac OS, Windows, and Linux as their desktop computers. We’ve deployed a large, complex remote administration / MDM application for managing the Mac OS and Windows desktops. It’s big and complicated and difficult to maintain. It does much more than we will… Read More: PenguinDome: new, open-source Linux mobile device management (MDM) solution »
The best way to configure Ubuntu for an encrypted root filesystem is to tell the installer to do it when you’re installing the operating system. It’s complicated, and smart people have put a lot of effort into making the installer know how to do it properly. Having said that, if you’re an experienced Linux sysadmin… Read More: HOWTO: Converting an unencrypted Ubuntu root disk to encrypted »