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The use of "try and" is usually grammatically incorrect (when "try to" was meant).

I use a 43-inch 4K TV as a monitor located about 30 inches from my eyes. I've been using such for at least a decade, and would never return to a tiny porthole facing work of intere…

Lazarillo de Tormes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarillo_de_Tormes

Bulletproof TLS Newsletter — https://www.feistyduck.com/bulletproof-tls-newsletter/

I've been using inexpensive ~40-inch-diagonal 4K (3840×2160) televisions as monitors for quite a few years and will continue to do so. Current one is TCL 43S405 (wife commandeered …

As of a short while ago (times are US/Eastern): C:\Users\gapinski>certutil -verifyCTL disallowed|more LastSyncTime = "9/23/2015 3:33 AM" [DisallowedCTL] ListIdentifier = "Disallowe…

Dunno, but http://scap-on-apple.macosforge.org/ might be of interest.

Pull up https://play.google.com/store in a browser and look at the TLS certificate chain. Equifax Secure CA is the root CA for the certificate chain. The intermediate CA (Google In…

Bad week for an announcement, eh?

Start with (as root) apt-get install openssh-server apt-get install fail2ban ufw allow OpenSSH ufw enable I use the following suffix to the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file: … 72 # 73 # l…

A totally crap HN headline: the referenced article refers transitively to "The Catholic Church in America". More than a small difference. Even the Economist headline fails to ident…

Vinyl is inferior to good (not lossy) digital. Using vinyl as a medium is daft. I do miss album covers. I don't miss the noise, defects, expense, and fragility. Good speakers are w…

Add https://fedorahosted.org/scap-security-guide/ , which I will at some point attempt to warp into an Ubuntu checklist, since I have always thought concordance on at least some se…

I haven't seen this problem on recent versions of Ubuntu (10.04, 12.04). fail2ban bans will preempt regular ufw rules (as they should).

Very nice. I'll be recommending this.

No. The one in front of me still has a lot of life in it, as do the four monitors. I have yet to do any serious work on mobile devices, including laptops (except when tethered to l…

I use a commercial hosting service which includes email. It provides as options SpamAssassin and Spamdyke, which work as well as can be expected. Spamdyke's graylisting does a nice…

Glad to hear it. Discovery is always a lot of fun, regardless of latency. Don't stop there. There were/are many good musicians performing excellent work from the 1950s and 60s on. …

It was worse. I started in the late 1960s. Information was not easy to obtain as it is now. The computers were not particularly limited (or so it seemed at the time), but there rea…

After wasting the better part of an hour diagnosing this problem, I have been told that our campus Websense device is blocking access to 74.125.95.100+, which is (in part) encrypte…