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Jul
01

Hacking IPTV, or why default passwords are bad.

Unchanged vendor default passwords are bad. That might seem obvious, but it's amazing how frequently default passwords seem to turn
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Jun
22

Spoofing public Wifi networks - in the air!

Whether it's Starbucks, McDonalds, Target or your local airport you'll find open wifi almost everywhere. Many network give access with
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Jun
20

What MTBF Really Means

A few weeks ago I commented to a college that the disks we use in XtremIO arrays have a Mean
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May
18

Simplifying Oracle/SLOB testing using OraSLOB

NOTE that this verison of OraSLOB has been deprecated - please use the version at OraSLOB, with ASM instead. When
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Apr
14

Double Disk Failure

If you've worked in IT - especially storage - long enough then you've probably heard the phrase "Double-Disk Failure", referring
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Dec
02

Is Acompli the next Linkedin Intro?

A little over a year ago Linkedin released a product called "Intro" that added details from Linkedin to email when
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Dec
01

Using udev and VPD on XtremIO

A few weeks ago when looking at sdparm output I noticed that EMC XtremIO LUNs report the name of the
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Nov
26

Back to Blogging

It's been almost 8 years since I've done any public blogging - the remants of that time are still available,