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Because if you don’t know them, you will wish you did. And when you do know them, you will know when to not use them. from antipaucity https://antipaucity.com/2024/02/23/when-in-doubt-learn-regular-expressions/ via IFTTT

A dozen years ago, I shared an edited-for-readability chat I had with a friend on the gold standard. In it I stated: I’d think that it would be better to keep the mountains and valleys more stable / less high|deep, so that slowdowns aren’t felt by a disproportionately small community/niche of the economy, and so …
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I had the privilege of speaking at this year’s Ohio Linux Fest on the topic of syslog Slidedeck PDF – https://antipaucity.com/olf2023-syslog.pdf If you would like me to give this, or any other, talk for your organization, please contact me via LinkedIn or Twitter You can watch the talk from OLF’s live stream of the event …
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A few years ago I reposted 35 questions from Inc magazine in 5 parts. Today I ran across another list of great questions to ask yourself via Chris Williamson: Whose life do I admire that is secretly miserable? What do I believe is true only because believing it puts me in good standing with my …
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Found https://github.com/jonkeegan/behind-this-website today It is a much-expanded and more-detailed version of what I wrote 2 years ago Nice job, guys from antipaucity https://antipaucity.com/2023/06/12/behind-this-website-a-more-detailed-checklist/ via IFTTT

The Splunk command fieldsummary is amazing – I use it quite frequently to explore more “new” (to me) sourcetypes, and to find out about more fields than I’ve previously used in the sourcetypes I work with most. But sometimes you want to be able to delineate more granularly than fieldsummary will allow. Maybe you have …
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What thinketh ye all? Should polling places be located at churches, civic centers, fire departments, somewhere else? Why? What does the location make you think while you’re casting your vote? from antipaucity https://antipaucity.com/2022/10/20/where-should-election-polls-be-located-and-why/ via IFTTT

You may have heard of the recently-discovered/-published TLStorm vulnerability that affects – at least – APC SmartUPS devices. One of the prime issues highlighted is the embedded nanoSSL library that APC has used on these systems. If you want to find out if your system is affected, the following nmap except should start you towards …
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A couple months ago I posted a first review of my Ninja Dualbrew Pro CFP301 K-Cup-compatible brewer. This morning I made my first carafe of coffee with it. First the pros: very easy to brew a pot of coffee it’s easy to pop the K-Cup holder out and swap to crafe mode even without using …
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As promised a few days ago, here’s the Big Writeup on our new coop First, the pictures That’s a lotta pictures! And I didn’t post them all ? Some of the key features of the this coop: 6’x8′ exterior floor dimensions the floor’s covered in peel-n-stick vinyl tiles for easy cleaning 12′ roof, which overhangs …
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It’s been a long time coming But the new chicken coop is done First, let’s rewind the clock to late 2016 We had just moved to our “farm” to be closer to family out of the “big city” (not a farm, and not a big city … but you get the idea) My father-in-law had …
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Made some hamburgers the other night, and they came out better than expected – always a plus ? 1 lb 85% lean ground beef 2 large eggs 1/8c quick oats Kinder’s buttery steakhouse rub <1/8c Italian bread crumbs Mix together like you’re going to make meatloaf Divvy into 8 ~2oz balls – pack hand-tight Preheat …
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We raise chickens. For the last few years, we’ve only had layers – and they’ve all been full-grown by the time they arrived at our home. This year, we decided to buy some chicks because our layers are starting to age-out of being able to lay, and we’re interested in trying our hand at raising …
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Some of the content is mildly dated, but this series of posts a few years ago is still something I refer to quite often: binding your mounts storage strategies – part 1 storage strategies – part 2 storage strategies – part 3 storage strategies – part 4 fallocate vs dd for swap file creation from …
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I’ve recently been asked by several people to investigate websites (especially e-commerce ones) for reliability/legitimateness. Thought someone else may find my process useful, and/or have some ideas on how to improve it ? So here goes: Pop a terminal window (I’m on a Mac, so I open Terminal – feel free to use your terminal …
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I’ve been running an M1-powered MacBook Pro since late April. Here’s my experience so far: it Just Works That’s it That’s the tweet Want more? Sure! Battery life is bonkers-awesome! I can run for over a full working day with my VDI client, YouTube, web browser sessions, ssh, several chat apps (including video and audio …
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It took Apple 5.5 (or 6, if you count last week as really hitting it) years to introduce what I called the MacBook Flex back in 2015. With the 13″ MacBook Pro available in an M1-powered edition (which is so much better than the top-end MBP from 2019…it’s not even funny), and now a 5G-enabled …
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deeply-broadly-carefully Please feel free to use/share/copy/adapt this image from antipaucity https://antipaucity.com/2021/03/24/think-read-speak/ via IFTTT

A couple weeks ago some folks in the splunk-usergroups.slack helped me using accum and calculating with a modulus to make a grid menu from a list. My original search had been along the lines of: | inputlookup mylookup| stats count by type| fields – count| transpose| fields – column Which was great … until my list grew …
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fast.com – run by Netflix nperf.com – based in France speedof.me – HTML5/JavaScript based speedtest.net – by Ookla from antipaucity https://antipaucity.com/2020/12/05/4-places-to-test-your-internet-connectivty/ via IFTTT

Data Models are one of the major underpinnings of Splunk’s power and flexibility. They’re the only way to benefit from the powerful pivot command, for example. They underlie Splunk Enterprise Security (probably the biggest “non-core” use of Splunk amongst all their customers). Key to achieving peak performance from Splunk Data Models, though, is that they …
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Want to reinvigorate old texts and library patronage? Turn libraries into print-on-demand book “publishers” for works in the public domain and/or which aren’t under copyright in the current country and/or some kind of library version of CCLI churches use for music! This idea came to me after reading this blog post from the Internet Archive …
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Via the rands-leadership Slack (in the #i-wrote-something channel), I found an article written on ChealseaTroy.com that was [the last?] in her series on course design. While I found part 9 interesting, I was bummed there were no internal links to the other parts of the series (at least to previous parts (even if there may …
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How useful would determining similarity of words by their unique anagrams be? For example: “ROBERT” uniquely anagrams to “BEORT”; “BOBBY” and “BOOBY” both uniquely anagram to “BOY”. Is there already a comparison algorithm that uses something like this? What potentially “interesting” discoveries might be made about vocabularical choices if you analyzed text corpora with this …
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Had a Splunk use-case present itself today on needing to determine if the value of a field was found in another – specifically, it’s about deciding if a lookup table’s category name for a network endpoint is “the same” as the dest_category assigned by a Forescout CounterACT appliance. We have “customer validated” (and we all …
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