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12/28/2016

Very clear explanation about yet another popular "Security Through Obscurity" waste of time...

This article describes why you should not change your WordPress table prefix. It shows how this doesn't improve security at all and is 'security theater'.

02/19/2016

A nice simple explanation of why Encryption is important.

https://advocacy.mozilla.org/encrypt/2/?ref=2016_Encryption&utm_campaign=2016_Encryption&utm_source=newsletter-mofo&utm_medium=email&utm_content=AAlktext2

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01/26/2016

Finally got the new website up and working - Check it out!

http://www.bdc-llc.com

09/11/2015

Attended Dell Peak Performance last week - We got some fantastic information on the evolving threat landscape and it is scary - We have solutions for the latest challenges -

08/11/2015

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05/02/2013

Ok - This made me laugh out loud - We took Ross and Perry to this when they were kids and they cried - I guess the body count was a little too high for their tolerance...
http://www.wired.com/underwire/2013/04/the-net-movie-technology/

We’ve decided to analyze the valuable lessons about technology contained within the most educational material that we as a society have ever produced: Hollywood films. Today’s lesson: The Net, the most harrowing mid-'90s Sandra Bullock thriller that did not involve a bus, beauty pageant or cruise sh...

05/02/2013

I used to think I was getting paranoid, but it is time to start taking your own personal computer security VERY seriously - there are way too many bad actors out there that think they have unlimited rights to your personal information and privacy - they don't! Here is a great place to start: https://www.eff.org/ - and then perhaps check this out: http://boingboing.net/.

04/22/2013

OK - More Nerd Stuff here so Ignore if so inclined...

CentOS is the primary OS we use for Servers - It is based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and it is a VERY conservative distribution - meaning it's WAY behind on all the current software it ships with - this is intentional on their part, but it makes it hard to run as a Desktop OS - Enter compiling your own Kernel!

Tonight, for an experiment I set up a Virtual machine and patched it - CentOS 6.4 with all the patches and then looking at uname -a I get:

2.6.32-358.2.1.el6.x86_64 - Looking at the kernel.org mailing list I see that this version of the Kernel came out December 3 of 2009 - which means the most current Kernel for CentOS in the CentOS repository's came out almost 3.5 years ago!!!

I have read about compiling your own kernel since I started using Linux, but have never found a reason to do it - but I am getting ready to switch all my personal machines to Linux (See Previous Posts) and I wanted to give it a shot.

I followed the instructions here:

http://serverfault.com/questions/455944/in-centos-6-x-how-can-i-upgrade-to-kernel-3-4

And I substituted 3.8.8 and guess what - It actually works!

Google Chrome is happy (previously it was saying the OS was unsupported) and everything else I have tried seems just fine - I am running Gnome and KDE and both environments are stable and responsive - here is uname -a:

Linux centos.bdc.local 3.8.8 #1 SMP Sun Apr 21 20:30:21 MDT 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

So there you go - More options as far as what you use and more freedom with Linux!

I have a server with CentOS 6.2 with kernel version 2.6.32, but I need to increase my application Performance. The Kernel Version 3.4 has x32abi which can improve the performance so i want to upgrade to 3.4 ? Is it possible?