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What is a CVE and How Can It Benefit Me?
Like a lot of the things that I write here, this is a question that came up in a ticket that I worked on recently. A customer recently received a message like …
About Patching: What is a Patch in SLE and OpenSUSE?
A while back I wrote a post on why you should patch your servers. I think it surprised some people. I got at least one comment from twitter saying, …
On writing dockerfiles
I came across an email yesterday before I went home in our internal Docker mailing list. The author was looking for a Tomcat container written using SLES as a …
How can I get Malware?
↗I received an email this morning. I’m actually expecting a package that has been held for some time and when I saw it, it seems potentially legit at …
Why Should I Patch My Server?
Wait, what? Why should I patch my server? Because you won’t get bug fixes. But my server works just fine, if it’s not broken don’t fix it, …
SUSE Documentation
Did you know that SUSE provides free documentation↗ for all of our products to the general public in multiple languages and in multiple formats? Not only that, …
How Low Can You Go?
Every since my days on dial-up internet and telnet MUD’s, I’ve always been interested in low-bandwidth utilities. After all, not every user …
LyX
↗Linux distributions are generally full of packages that have specific uses that most people don’t need or maybe they just don’t know that they …
I Deleted Everything
↗I goofed. I’m an avid hobbyist photographer and I happen to live in one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Needless to say, I take a lot of …
How I Would Use OS to Solve a Problem in the World
Ben Heck is sponsoring a contest for a Raspberry Pi Laptop. https://youtu.be/ckRiXECkXIA↗ Here’s my entry. Privacy, security, and information. These are …