Putting the FUN Back in Productivity

It’s not a secret that it’s hard to get stuff done. Procrastination is practically a super power for me. I’ve tried so many methods and systems to keep myself on track over the years that I should probably start a review site. Sadly, the battle of my executive function being on constant vacation and the inability to get organized saps a lot of my ability to execute. It’s gotten to the point where I’ve finally realized that I need to start tricking my brain into getting things done.

Any reputable researcher will tell you that dealing with neurodivergent behaviors like ADHD is all about understanding the reasons why you do the things you do. I know what needs to be done. I just don’t want to do it. Worse yet, anything that I can do to avoid working on something is going to capture my attention because I’d rather be doing something unproductive as opposed to something I don’t like. This can manifest itself in strange ways like preferring to do the dishes instead of writing a blog post or mowing the yard instead of practicing a presentation.

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Installing Older Versions of Kumactl on an M1 Mac

The Kuma community recently released version 1.2.0 of the open source Kuma service mesh, and along with it a corresponding version of kumactl, the command-line utility for interacting with Kuma. To make it easy for macOS users to get kumactl, the Kuma community maintains a Homebrew formula for the CLI utility. That includes providing M1-native (ARM64) macOS binaries for kumactl. Unfortunately, installing an earlier version of kumactl on an M1-based Mac using Homebrew is somewhat less than ideal. Here’s one way—probably not the only way—to work around some of the challenges.

Note that this post really only applies to users of M1-based Macs; users of Intel-based Macs can extract the kumactl binary from the release archive available linked from the Kuma install docs. (The same goes for users of Linux distributions running on Intel-based hardware.) On the Kuma website, simply select the desired version of Kuma from the drop-down in the upper left, check the page for the direct download link, and off you go. This doesn’t work for M1-based Macs because at the time this post was written, the Kuma community was not providing ARM64 binaries. This leaves Homebrew as the only way (aside Continue reading

Heavy Networking 585: From Help Desk To Network Automation Engineer In 5 Years

Curt Norris started his career as an IT support specialist. Five years later he's an automation engineer. On today's Heavy Networking we discuss his career journey including milestones, ongoing learning, the pros and cons of mentorship, whether a degree makes a difference, and more.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For June 25th, 2021

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Lightning-Fast Kubernetes Networking with Calico and VPP

Reza Ramezanpour Reza is a developer advocate at Tigera, working to promote adoption of Project Calico. Before joining Tigera, Reza worked as a systems engineer and network administrator. Public cloud infrastructures and microservices are pushing the limits of resources and service delivery beyond what was imaginable until very recently. To keep up with the demand, network infrastructures and network technologies had to evolve as well. Software-defined networking (SDN) is the pinnacle of advancement in cloud networking. By using SDN, developers can deliver an optimized, flexible networking experience that can adapt to the growing demands of their clients. This article will discuss how Tigera’s new Project Calico is an open source networking and security solution. Although it focuses on securing Kubernetes networking, Calico can also be used with OpenStack and other workloads. Calico uses a modular data plane that allows a flexible approach to networking, providing a solution for both current and future networking needs. VPP Continue reading

Video: Typical Large-Scale Bridging Use Cases

In the previous video in the Switching, Routing and Bridging section of How Networks Really Work webinar we compared transparent bridging with IP routing. Not surprisingly (given my well-known bias toward stable solutions) I recommended using IP routing as much as possible, but there are still people out there pushing large-scale transparent bridging solutions.

In today’s video we’ll look at some of the supposed use cases and stable solutions you could use instead of stretching a virtual thick yellow cable halfway across a continent.

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Video: Typical Large-Scale Bridging Use Cases

In the previous video in the Switching, Routing and Bridging section of How Networks Really Work webinar we compared transparent bridging with IP routing. Not surprisingly (given my well-known bias toward stable solutions) I recommended using IP routing as much as possible, but there are still people out there pushing large-scale transparent bridging solutions.

In today’s video we’ll look at some of the supposed use cases and stable solutions you could use instead of stretching a virtual thick yellow cable halfway across a continent.

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CEO Gelsinger shakes up Intel

A new CEO invariably means a reorganization around his/her vision of things and an attempt to address perceived problems in the company’s organizational structure. In hindsight, that’s another clue that Bob Swan wasn’t long for the CEO’s job at Intel, since he never did a reorg.Pat Gelsinger, who has been Intel’s CEO for just over four months, on the other hand, completely flipped the table with a major reorganization that creates two new business units, promoted several senior technologists to leadership roles, and saw the departure of a major Intel veteran.Now see "How to manage your power bill while adopting AI" The two new units: one for software and the other on high performance computing and graphics. Greg Lavender will serve as Intel’s chief technology officer and lead the new Software and Advanced Technology Group. As CTO, he will head up research programs, including Intel Labs. Lavender comes to Intel from VMware, where he was also CTO, and has held positions Citigroup, Cisco, and Sun Microsystems.To read this article in full, please click here

CEO Gelsinger shakes up Intel

A new CEO invariably means a reorganization around his/her vision of things and an attempt to address perceived problems in the company’s organizational structure. In hindsight, that’s another clue that Bob Swan wasn’t long for the CEO’s job at Intel, since he never did a reorg.

Pat Gelsinger, who has been Intel’s CEO for just over four months, on the other hand, completely flipped the table with a major reorganization that creates two new business units, promoted several senior technologists to leadership roles, and saw the departure of a major Intel veteran.

The two new units: one for software and the other on high performance computing and graphics. Greg Lavender will serve as Intel’s chief technology officer and lead the new Software and Advanced Technology Group. As CTO, he will head up research programs, including Intel Labs. Lavender comes to Intel from VMware, where he was also CTO, and has held positions Citigroup, Cisco, and Sun Microsystems.

To read this article in full, please click here

Hedge 89: Dana Iskoldski and A House Divided

Bluecat, in cooperation with an outside research consultant, jut finished a survey and study on the lack of communication and divisions between the cloud and networking teams in deployments to support business operations. Dana Iskoldski joins Tom Ammon and Russ White to discuss the findings of their study, and make some suggestions about how we can improve communication between the two teams.

Please find a copy of the study at http://bluecatnetworks.com/hedge.

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Integrating MISP with NSX Advanced Threat Analyzer

 Contributors: Stefano Ortolani (NSBU TAU)

MISP (originally Malware Information Sharing Platform) is a platform to share, store, and correlate Indicators of Compromise (IOCs) from targeted attacks, threat intelligence, or even financial fraud information. One of the reasons underlying MISP’s success is its extensibility via third-party modules. However, as the number of contributors increases, coordination and distribution can quickly become a challenge. To solve this issue, MISP’s authors created a satellite project called MISP modules.

Before joining the NSX family, we at Lastline contributed three different modules to the MISP project in order to better integrate MISP with the sandbox that is now part of the NSX Advanced Threat Analyzer (ATA) product offering. The main idea was to enrich the file indicators referencing an artifact with behavioral information extracted by detonating the artifact in the sandbox, or by retrieving the analysis result of previous detonations. We accomplished this by relying on three different modules:

  • lastline_submit: An enrichment module used to submit new files to the sandbox; as dynamic analysis requires some time to terminate, the output of this module is an external analysis link represented by a new MISP attribute.
  • lastline_query: An enrichment module to expand a Continue reading
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