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There’s been a slow-burning furor over dishonesty in “creative nonfiction,” most recently in this Fact vs. Artistic License in Creative Nonfiction post. Now and then someone accuses me of making stuff up in my books. For the record, here’s the truth. I lie. I make stuff up all the time. But not technical stuff. One . . . → Read More: Truth versus Art My first day at BSDCan, my Web sites died. Hard drive failure. The latest backups are defective. I think I’ve recovered the blog, but some links have changed, dang it. I’ll have to learn more about mod_rewrite to fix them. Web site is next. RSS readers will see some repeats, sorry. Other than that, BSDCan . . . → Read More: Death of a Web Server Yep, Cisco Routers for the Desperate and Absolute FreeBSD are 50% off when you buy through No Starch Press’s O’Reilly distributor. And other books. By other authors. Most of whom are more awesome than I am, so I’m not going to mention any names. Like Peter Hansteen. Or Joe Kong. Or Tom Limoncelli. Or Chris . . . → Read More: 50% off sale on my No Starch ebooks through O’Reilly, 4th May only I’m a big fan of RANCID for managing configurations for embedded devices, such as most routers and switches. While you can go buy CiscoWorks, OpenView, or any number of proprietary products, RANCID is good enough for the overwhelming majority of us. (Those products do have other advantages, but simple configuration revision control isn’t one of . . . → Read More: Debugging RANCID Last August a friend of mine, Colin Harvey, died of a sudden unexpected stroke. He was in my fiction critique group, and we spend several years bashing each other’s efforts. He made it as a novelist, with two books to his credit. I haven’t reached that. Yet. Today, I learned that one of his stories . . . → Read More: And now for something completely different… Lots of people have offered to tech review the second edition of Absolute OpenBSD before it goes to print. Peter Hansteen is doing the final tech edit, but I still need a reality check before it goes to him. Henning Brauer has offered to do this for me. He’s reviewed a few chapters already, and . . . → Read More: Absolute OpenBSD reviewers I have a love-hate relationship with RADIUS. RADIUS is the cheap white glue of authentication. Just about everything speaks it, so you can use it as cheap glue to unify passwords across your gear. But it’s a finicky protocol, with lots of edge cases, and those edges can be SHARP. Okay, perhaps it’s more of . . . → Read More: Configuring OpenBSD to use RADIUS auth I just got asked one too many times, “What’s in this book that’s not in the man pages?” And I’ve snapped. I’m blogging my answer, so I can point here and save myself from typing the answer again. I’m best known for writing about BSD technologies, a field where the developers are notoriously detailed . . . → Read More: The Purpose of Tech Books I promised several authors results of my private label publishing experiment. I now have sales numbers from February from Amazon, B&N, Smashwords, and CreateSpace. Just like the January post, this comes with some caveats: This includes only SSH Mastery. I have removed my fiction from the totals. Again, fiction sales are considerably lower, but growing. . . . → Read More: February “SSH Mastery” sales numbers and expenses I will be at BSDCan 2012. In addition to poking my nose where it doesn’t belong, spouting insouciance and irrelevance, and derailing important technical discussions with tediously pointless anecdotes about my pet rats, I am teaching a course on SSH. If you don’t have time to work your way through the SSH book, take a . . . → Read More: SSH course at BSDCan 2012 |
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