In this article, I’ll share some newbie explorations I’ve made in the areas of data analytics and pro hockey. I recently embarked on a crazy journey into the world of data analytics. There’s nothing all that crazy about data analytics,… Continue Reading
Early one recent morning my Linux workstation failed to boot. And just like that, all my work plans for the day ground to an immediate halt. This was the Linux workstation that was host to thirty years-worth of data: The… Continue Reading
Curious about what kinds of personal and even private data you may be exposing through the course of a normal day on the internet? How about using “all kinds” as a starting point? Here, adapted from my new book, Keeping Up:… Continue Reading
You know the old joke: there are two kinds of companies, those that’ve been hit with an IT disaster, and those who don’t yet realize they’ve been hit with an IT disaster. But what they all have in common is… Continue Reading
A local area network (LAN) is really nothing more than a structure for organizing and protecting network communications for all the devices running within a single home or office. Let me break that down a bit. When I say, within a… Continue Reading
A big part of administrating Linux machines – especially remote machines – is managing and installing software. When something goes wrong with a local application or when something on the file system breaks and needs fixing, you’re often going to… Continue Reading
Staring at a plain, dumb command line prompt with no clue what to do with the AWS CLI next can be a humbling experience. And, in my experience at least, staring at the Management Console for AWS CloudFormation can be… Continue Reading
How to get exactly the account and environment information you need to manage your AWS account using just the AWS CLI Installing the AWS CLI is actually quite simple. The best way to get it done is to head over… Continue Reading
One fine day, for no discernible reason, my Ubuntu 18.04 business server stopped forwarding mail to my Gmail address. Just the day before, the .forward files I’d created in the home directories of the local server accounts I use for email –… Continue Reading
As you can read in this article, I recently had some trouble with my email server and decided to outsource email administration to Amazon’s Simple Email Service (SES). The problem with that solution was that I had SES save new messages… Continue Reading