CSH Blog Network

Many of our members and alumni have blogs out there on the internet, and they write about a lot of interesting things. So we gathered up all the CSHer blogs we could find and, with the power of Web 2.0, mashed them all together into one big blogorific mega-feed! Find out what real CSHers are doing with their lives, here on the CSH Blog Network.

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Enforcing Trusted SSL Certificates on iOS and Mac

Jon Parise (indelible.org) - October 24, 2012 - 3:00am

One of the nice things about iOS and Mac networking is that it generally just works. In particular, connecting to an SSL-protected host is a transparent operation for high-level code based on NSURLConnection. As long as the authenticity of the remote host's public certificate can be verified, the connection is considered trustworthy. read more »

MITRE's CEE is a failure for profit.

Jordan Sissel (semicomplete.com) - September 12, 2012 - 1:34am

I wrote this post a few months ago, but never got around to publishing it.

Anyway, someone mentioned 'project lumberjack' and I found it was based on CEE: Common Event Expression. CEE is a sort of comedic tragedy of design.

The effort is owned by a "non-profit" (MITRE), but the complexity and obfuscation in CEE can only drive towards one thing: consultant profits. I had a go at explaining what I describe in this post on the 'project lumberjack' mailing list, but I did it quite poorly and got a few foot-stomps in response, so I gave up. read more »

Growing logstash's value

Jordan Sissel (semicomplete.com) - July 30, 2012 - 2:00am

I spent a while today thinking about nerdy stuff - logstash, etc. I want to grow logstash in terms of performance, use case, deployment instances, happy users, and community.

While musing about on my mental roadmap of logstash, I found most things boil down to costs and returns on investment, even with open source software. Money, time, energy, and patience are all costs. Just because something doesn't cost any money doesn't mean it won't consume any time or energy.

I see two distinct groups of users, with respect to cost. New users and current users. read more »

A Fishy Solution

Chris Lockfort (clockfort.com) - June 25, 2012 - 10:42am

I had an odd problem adding a new disk into my MD raid set - it is an identical drive...

ZipWeather

Steven DuBois (sdubois.org) - June 7, 2011 - 4:12pm

Over the past week or so I have started working on a new project called ZipWeather. The idea for this came from my general attitude of not caring about the weather very often. As someone who spends a considerable amount of time indoors, the conditions outside are of little consequence to me. While this holds true [...]