Author: Ed Itor
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In Memorium – 2005 – Found Footage
No Spoilers In Memorium is a found footage movie released during the 1999-2010 found footage craze that ensued with the introduction of the Blair Witch Project. Blair Witch wasn’t the first found footage offering by far but it’s possible it led to the notoriety instrumental in making that style of movie making into it’s own…
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There’s a Cursor in My Browser
A little problem started bugging me a few weeks ago. Every once in while when browsing web pages there would be a ‘cursor’ somewhere in the page. The cursor is the blinking vertical line or sometimes an underscore which let’s you know where text will output when you start typing. At first it was barely…
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Ring – Japanese Version
No Spoilers The Ring continues to be one of my favorite horror movies. The concept, the screenplay, the cast of characters and plot all came together for what I thought was an engrossing and scary movie. It’s different than the American version in many ways. I think a lot is lost in translation as well.…
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The Nazca Lines – My Opinion
The Nazca Lines of Peru. Those mysterious geoglyphs spread over acres and acres of the Atacama desert near the city of Nazca. Sure you’ve heard of them. The hummingbird, the monkey, the spider or even ‘El Astronauta’. These aren’t just the names of some popular memes, they are huge artworks spread across acres and acres…
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Internet Architecture for Beginners – What are Tiers?
I’ve spent 35+ years of building and deploying internet facing web sites. The front end load balancers and web servers which are tier 1 and sometimes referred to as client application or client tier. Next up is the application server (tier 2) and finally the backend database server (tier 3) or data source. To tie…
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Tylenol Murders 1982 – YouTube Comment
I was a kid during the Tylenol murders but I remember it vividly. I remember being scared as a kid. I was smart enough to know what was going on and that made it all the scarier. The media didn’t help but it was absolutely necessary in this case to get the word out to…
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Recent Horror Movies I’ve Watched – ‘Host’ and ‘Noroi: The Curse’
No Spoilers A couple of days ago I was perusing my video options on Amazon Prime and Shudder and passed by a movie I’ve been passing over for about month. I pay for YouTube Premium, Shudder, Amazon Prime and Netflix and of course with my additional free options of Peacock, TubiTV and PlutoTV I’m sometimes…
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Linux shell commands I use daily
In day to day administration we as system administrators have literally thousands of commands to choose from to keep our servers running in tip top condition. I’ve seen top 10 lists of essential commands every Linux user should know. I’ve seen top 35 lists of the best Linux shell commands. I’ve seen top 100 lists…
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fail2ban for Ubuntu – ssh port security
fail2ban is a tool in the Ubuntu repository which helps in securing your internet facing ssh port. It uses a simple algorithm to detect repeated login and password attempts to ban the offending host for a period of time. The default installation of fail2ban bans a host for 10 minutes before removing the block from…
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Tripwire for Ubuntu
Tripwire is a file integrity checking tool. It’s primary function is notify you of any changes made to files or directories you have selected for monitoring. There are many tools available these days for this task however Tripwire specializes in this one function. It’s a tool that’s been around since before the days of the…