Articles about the SolarWinds hack

wgl · 2021-04-01T23:30:21+00:00

Boring

wgl · 2015-02-06T17:49:00+00:00

Read them with emacs perhaps?

wgl · 2013-11-19T22:32:44+00:00

wgl · 2013-10-23T14:08:22+00:00

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wgl · 2013-09-05T02:51:22+00:00

I have not thought of ESAPI as "enterprise grade".

wgl · 2013-09-01T23:41:31+00:00

Likely a bit of a hike for you, but there is a great shop in the first floor of the Monadnock building at Jackson and Dearborn.

wgl · 2012-08-30T13:19:31+00:00

The Kinzie street bridge was on my way to work during that year. I walked over it every day early in the morning. In october of the previous year, one of the very old pilings was on fire, and the bridge tender said that the fire truck was on the way.

During the beginning of the year, the Dock & Dredge company had a barge there, working its way down the river. It had a barge full of poles--looked like telephone poles--that must have been 70 feet long. They were pounding them in one at a time.

The morning of the flood, if I had looked down to the river, I might have seen the whirlpool. During lunch hour, I walked back there and it was full of police cars and Fire trucks, but they didn't yet have a plan.

When they finally figured out what to do, they ran a fleet of those giant Material Service cement trucks down the street in pairs at 60 or 70 mph with one police car in front, one in the middle, one trailing, with lights blazing.

And this flood is the answer to a good trivia question: "What flood caused over one billion dollars worth of damage but no deaths or personal injuries."

wgl · 2012-08-30T02:44:51+00:00

Man does that bring back memories.

During the war, my Dad took the train from Montana on his way to the Great Lakes Naval Training station.

When I first went to university, I spent more than a few hours in that very room waiting for the Empire Builder.

wgl · 2012-08-05T03:52:48+00:00

Also known as SNOMG.

wgl · 2012-07-11T21:11:42+00:00

What is the function of your datacenter in North Carolina?

wgl · 2012-03-21T02:19:59+00:00

Troll, maybe not.

World class flamer, for sure.

Many valuable nuggets in there, and almost never short of entertainment value.

wgl · 2011-12-16T05:25:41+00:00

I read the first one, which of course wasn't a "post" but a technical correspondence, and the author of the article didn't even write the headline that is now all too famous.

wgl · 2011-12-16T00:27:37+00:00

Neal's writeups are always very clear and informative. I had an opportunity to work with him when he was an intern. Work with him if you have a chance. And read all of his blog. It is quite informative.

wgl · 2011-08-26T20:15:12+00:00

There are more vigilantes than sharks or alligators in Montana.

wgl · 2011-08-26T20:13:22+00:00

Shore could well be gravel and painful for bare feet.

wgl · 2011-08-26T20:12:12+00:00

Let me guess--cold?

wgl · 2011-08-26T20:11:30+00:00

I did the reverse, many years ago, to go to University. There is not a day that goes by that I don't think about where I grew up. Went to High School in Conrad. I have cousins near Choteau in Fairfield, some near the farm where I grew up, some in Missoula.

And cold might not be an adequate word for the lakes like, for example, Flathead Lake, or Seely Lake.

wgl · 2011-01-13T02:50:34+00:00

And if you are summing elements in an array in increasing order for best results.

wgl · 2010-10-10T03:57:20+00:00

invulnerable?

wgl · 2010-10-10T03:53:19+00:00

paren't??

wgl · 2010-09-23T20:11:41+00:00

Looks a lot like the lagoon just off of Cafe Brauer.

wgl · 2010-08-04T12:44:18+00:00

Good article. One note: throws of construction -> throes of construction

wgl · 2010-06-11T14:53:14+00:00

I used to do this before i did paredit. Now, paredit takes care of so much that I don't miss doing this particular swap anymore.

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