I’ve been having a long-running conversation with various folks in the Ubiquiti
Forums here
[https://community.ubnt.com/t5/UniFi-Routing-Switching/UniFi-USG-local-DNS-not-resolving-local-hostname-correctly/
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One of the greatest advances towards securing the Internet happened on April 12,
2016 when the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG) launched the “Let’s
Encrypt” X.509 Transport Layer Security (TLS) (you
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Recently I rebuilt my personal mail server (and Mailman list server) on a new
version of Ubuntu. Everything went well and the Mailman list worked fine, except
that all of the CGI-BIN
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I recently installed Fail2Ban on my personal mail/web host as the number of "bad
actors" has climbed a lot in recent years and I no longer felt comfortable just
allowing
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It's spring here in Silicon Valley and that means it's time for the Apple World
Wide Developers Conference (WWDC). This year did not disappoint with Apple
making not 1,
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I recently decided to run Kali Linux on my MacBook. I originally thought I'd
just build it into a Virtual Machine (using Parallels), but was concerned that I
might not have
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I recently listened to Triangulation episode #278 with Tim Wu, author of The
Attention Merchants (which I'm currently reading).
Tim, and Leo, both stated in the podcast that getting people to
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I'm a big fan of the Ubiquiti UniFi networking gear, I wrote about how I was
able to use their gear to provide micro-segmentation
[https://robpickering.com/ubiquiti-configure-micro-
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Back from my break over the holidays! Back to work, son is back to school. I
didn't publish any articles over the break, but that doesn't mean I wasn&
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I recently read the following blog post post by Matthew Sag, "One More Sign
World Is Shrinking – eBay is for Suckers [http://matthewsag.com/?p=1642]". It
compelled me to tell
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Time flies when you're having fun! I'm really happy to be back in Silicon Valley
after returning from Calgary (and Edmonton). Nothing like being back, getting up
in the
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This review is a long-time in coming. Back at the end of 2013 I wrote an article
on Enabling a USB to Serial Port Adapter in OSX
[https://robpickering.com/enabling-a-
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Today Apple released iOS 10.2
[http://www.forbes.com/sites/amitchowdhry/2016/12/12/apple-ios-10-2-is-now-available-what-is-included-in-the-update/#43b8479976be]
which, among some other
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The second week of my new blog and I was able to accelerate the number of
articles that I published, even during a heavy travel week at work. Two of the
articles were
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