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Tuesday, March 24, 2026

Dunno Who To Blame This On

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I'm currently working on extending some SaltStack-based automation. I'd initially written it to work on (RHEL) Linux-based hosts. Wo...
Wednesday, March 18, 2026

Why, Palo Alto, WHY??

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Yesterday, I was doing up some SaltStack based automation to help a customer automate the installation of the Cortex XDR Agent on RHEL-bas...
Friday, March 13, 2026

I Hate PowerShell (Installment 3783)

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So, I know I've skipped a few numbers since my  I Hate PowerShell (Installment 3769)  post. That post still applies and, yes, there'...
Thursday, February 12, 2026

I Hate PowerShell (Installment 3769)

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One of my customers has a group of developers. They're also tasked with SRE-style responsibilities as things move from development to pr...
Tuesday, January 6, 2026

Crib Notes: Removing Un-Tracked "Junk" From Git Repositories

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 I have a couple of git-managed projects where the projects' CI-configuration takes documentation-inputs — usually Markdown files — and ...
Wednesday, December 31, 2025

Interactively Deleting `auditd` Rules

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I'm in the middle of another session of creating hardening-automation for RHEL and derived distros. Currently working on automation for ...
Friday, August 22, 2025

PluralSight: Am I Being Scammed?

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Well, that's fucking dandy… I've had a multi-year account with CloudGuru . It was useful when seeking new AWS certifications or br...
Wednesday, August 20, 2025

WSL Space Recovery

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Recently, the backup client I use for my laptop started popping up, "operation aborted: out of space" messages. I'd been confu...
Friday, May 23, 2025

Using Arbitrary SSH Keys With GCP-Hosted Linux Instances (Or: "WTF: This Works on AWS")

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 As I start on my knowledge-transition from AWS to GCP (see prior article ), one of the first things I wanted to figure out was "how do...