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5 Years Since Katrina

By Nick On 2010/08/30 · Leave a Comment · In Personal

Katrina

I haven’t written much about my time during Katrina, but I wanted to put some thoughts to paper as I don’t want to forget when I am older. I have waited 5 years to write this, I hope it was worth it.

The Move

The plan was always for my ex-wife to get [...]

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“Netcraft confirms PGP Email Encryption is Dead!”

By Nick On 2010/08/28 · Leave a Comment · In Personal

Rakkhi posted a great Lessons Learned on implementing email encryption:

http://rakkhi.blogspot.com/2010/08/implementing-email-encryption-lessons.html

The post got me thinking because I struggle dealing with subcontractors getting encryption. I refuse to send sensitive or even somewhat sensitive data over unencrypted links, but find that small (and even midsize companies) do not have the resources to implement. In a [...]

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Log File Size

By Nick On 2010/08/22 · Leave a Comment · In Techie

I struggle with ROM for log file storage. It is one of those things that no one EVER looks at, but everyone covers their asses. As an example DHS requires 90 days online, 7 years offline. Anton Chuvakin from Security Warrior posted this today and I thought it was pretty good:

100,000 log messages / [...]

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Happy 17th Birthday Debian!

By Nick On 2010/08/16 · Leave a Comment · In Personal

I love Debian (looks over lovingly @ the fileserver) and look forward to many more years of stable releases. Debian was my first distro when I ran 1.3 at the ripe old age of 12. I built a VM a few years ago just to see how far we’ve come: http://geekyschmidt.com/2008/03/29/login-looking-back-on-debian-13

A link to some [...]

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Going Agile

By Nick On 2010/08/16 · Leave a Comment · In Techie

Agile Software Development using SCRUM is one of best force multipliers a team can utilize to speed-up cycles.

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