Breaking Things

Seb Gorka went on BBC Radio to explain how Donald has re-introduced gender apartheid into the U.S. military out of his great sense of compassion: The military is not a microcosm of civilian society. They are not there to reflect America. They are there to kill people and blow stuff up. They are not there […]

Voting for Hillary

Hillary could shoot Vince Foster in the face from a black helicopter, as part of a cocaine-for-secrets deal with the KGB, brokered by the Reptilian U.N., and she’d still make a better president than Donald Fucking Trump.

Opening Lines

Take from this what you will…

SHOPLIFTER SHOT BY POLICE

You have entered a dimension, not only of sight and sound, but of mind…

About the AR-15

It’s supposed to be more deadly in the hands of ill-trained draftees than any rifle yet built.

Das Nuclear Boot

When you absolutely, positively, have to do the bare minimum to clean out as many hard drives as possible in a short amount of time. Or you need to wipe an SSD. Either way.

Your Performance Metrics Are Terrible

Bad data is worse than no data, unfortunately it seems like most tech guys are just as easily distracted by meaningless numbers as managers are by meaningless graphs.

Windows 8: The Worst OS

Windows 8 is the worst operating system I’ve ever had to use.

Using the FreeIPA PKI with Puppet

How to setup Puppet so it runs inside of Apache using Phusion Passenger, mod_nss, and the certificates from FreeIPA.

What You Make Them Use

Systems and network administrators should always make sure they aren’t spared the typical user experience.

Anycast: IP-SLA HOWTO

The complete configuration necessary to implement anycast DNS using Cisco IP SLA, though it’s a little weird without the background.

Anycast: DGRAM vs. STREAM

For internal anycast services, it doesn’t really matter if it’s using TCP or UDP, so long as your routing protocol fails over quickly.

Anycast: Handling Routes

For internal services, you probably want to have them fail over between sites. Dynamic routing protocols will let you do that.

Anycast: The Interface

If you use a loopback interface for your service, you can share the IP address between two different servers, even on the same LAN.