Nicole

(Note: This post is originally from 2017, and is copied to this new site for historical reasons. Opinions, network infrastructure, and other things may have changed since this was first written.) Yeah, yeah, I know, remote branches aren’t technically my current branch because blah blah Git internals. Terminology purists can send me hate mail all they want. The point is, shell prompts commonly have a display for your current branch (like mine), but Google results...

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  • October 21, 2022

(Note: This post is originally from 2017, and is copied to this new site for historical reasons. Opinions, network infrastructure, and other things may have changed since this was first written.) If you have a non-Windows server on the Internet that does much of anything, you probably have a few cronjobs. And chances are, one or more of those cronjobs put output on standard input – maybe you’re using bash script tracing or something. You...

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  • October 13, 2022

(Note: This post is originally from 2017, and is copied to this new site for historical reasons. Opinions, network infrastructure, and other things may have changed since this was first written.) One of the things those fancy-pants corporate networks do that I’ve always wanted to set up is have an internally routed intranet kind of subdomain. They might call it corp.somewhere.com or internal.somewhere.com, and you’d be able to access certain services or perhaps specific boxes...

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  • October 13, 2022

(Note: This post is originally from 2017, and is copied to this new site for historical reasons. Opinions, network infrastructure, and other things may have changed since this was first written.) I’ve finally gotten to the point where I need to write down all the solutions to my various ideas and/or problems. Therefore, I’ve finally gotten to a point where I actually need a blog like object. I wasn’t particularly inclined to write my own...

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  • October 13, 2022