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  • Why Your Server Monitoring (Still) Sucks

    by Mike Julian Five observations about why your your server monitoring still stinks by a monitoring specialist-turned-consultant. Early in my career, I was responsible for managing a large fleet of printers across a large campus. We're talking several hundred networked printers. It often required a 10- or 15-minute walk to...

  • Yubikey Full Disk Encryption with LUKS

    So I finally got my self a yubikey, and what was the first thing I tried with it - luks full disk encryption. Yea.. better said than done. After a bit of research (read: failed attempts) I found this repo on github, seemed promising. However it didn’t work.. what gives.....

  • Hack My House: ZoneMinder’s Keeping an Eye on the Place

    Hacks are often born out of unfortunate circumstances. My unfortunate circumstance was a robbery– the back door of the remodel was kicked in, and a generator was carted off. Once the police report was filed and the door screwed shut, it was time to order cameras. Oh, and record the...