I came across this post in my LinkedIn feed trying to use ChatGPT to explain the difference between Kubernetes and Docker to a 15-year-old with the example of going on a camping trip. Sure! Imagine you’re going on a camping trip and you need to pack some things in a bag. Docker is like the bag – it’s a tool […]
Thanks to Reddit, my favorite place to wander when having nothing to do, for teaching me another technique that can be useful situations like this: We have a service running on a Linux VM, using open-source software. It works. Got a request from the marketing department to migrate the service to a paid hosted version that they used at a […]
Why? Here is a piece of free advice from Fabian Wosar (@fwosar), CTO of Emisoft. Click the link to see the whole thread. Or read along here. Here is free advice for all the ransomware threat actors out there: Do not obfuscate your decryption tools. Contrary to what you think, victims who paid the ransom will not blindly run the […]
Documentation is no fun but a must-to-do in almost every aspect of the work and has to be done constantly and consistently. It’s basically not how you do it, rather, a matter of doing it, in a good structure. Over time, I have been using OneNote as my main note-taking and documentation tool. But lately, I am obsessed with Wiki-based […]
r/sysadmin is one of my favorite places to hang out, not only to keep up with what’s happening out there in the industry but also to learn a lot of perspectives outside or inside of the IT world, such as the types or levels of burnout like this, along with many awesome comments by my IT fellows. === Common and […]
via defmacro There are great templates for this already: The YC application, Amazon’s internal press release, and Sequoia’s Writing a Business Plan. I found myself mixing and tweaking these templates because they don’t exactly match my model of the world, so I wrote up my own list. I use this list both to develop ideas and filter them. If you adopt it, be […]
A fellow IT Redditor, /u/shalafi71, created quite a security training slideshow and generously shared his PowerPoint on /r/sysadmin, who also adds: Take this as a skeleton and flesh it out on your own. Take an hour or two and research the things I talk about. Tailor this to your own environment and users. Make it relevant to your people. Include corporate stories, […]
April 1 is a horrible day for product launch and yet big companies like Google has the guts to make the bald moves. 15 years ago today on April 1, 2004, Google launched Gmail, a web-based email service that had the power of Google Search built right in. It started as a beta release on an invitation-only basis and officially […]