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- 60 Seconds of WIP
75: Interrupt So Frequently
Here’s a chunk from the new Networking for System Administrators. Here’s the catch. The listed speed is not how fast the interface can pass traffic…
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74: Nobody Likes You
From the untitled fiction project #projectIDGAF. Dating has always been a nightmare. Forget the humiliation, awkwardness, clumsiness, and most people’s…
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73: Brick Itself
I would really love to finish the first draft of the new Networking for Systems Administrators by the end of February. On a traditional network, the first…
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72: Arthritic Camels
Folks have asked me for hints about the Kickstarter I’m launching 1 April. Yes, it’s an April Fools’ book. Just like the Networknomicon, Ed…
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71: The Great State of Soviet Texas
I took the last week off, so here’s a bit of Drinking Heavy Water. The Great State of Soviet Texas was designed from the dirt up so that nobody would…
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70: The Athlete's Foot Disaster Alarm
A snippet from the unnamed fiction WIP. It was Patrolman Ernie McAllister who’d lit a blunt the size of his thumb. That’s smaller than you might think…
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69: Classic GM Cruise Control
My ears refuse to pop. Everything sounds flat. I hope this bit from the unnamed fiction WIP came out. Every three years, Dad paid cash for a brand-new Chevy…
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68: Flying Crabs with Teeth
Today you get a snippet of the unnamed fiction WIP. Here’s the problem: evolution doesn’t do what works. Evolution does random things. Some random things…
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67: Outmoded Oddities
Working on updating Networking for Systems Administrators. The gentle “yes you need IPv6” paragraph in the first edition is getting an update to…
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66: It Means Nothing
Here’s a chunk from the new edition of Networking for Systems Administrators. Through your career, people have repeatedly blamed “the firewall.” The word…
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65: Ignore the Flinch
Here’s a chunk from the new edition of Networking for Systems Administrators. Similarly, some vendors use the word VLAN. Others talk about tagging or…
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64: File Corrupting Butterfly
Dear Abyss is ready to launch, so I’m making new words. It’s another column. If you insist on proceeding, though, if you demand you be allowed to…
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63: Skip Off The Heliosphere
Life has been a bit chaotic this last couple weeks, and fulfilling the last 5% of the Run Your Own Mail Server Kickstarter has soaked up my time. I’m…
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62: Isolated But Not Alone
Got some words on #projectIDGAF this week, hurrah! Music might have saved Will, but the valley’s only radio station spent ten minutes out of each hour praising…
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61: An Abiding and Passionate Desire
Shipping backer copies of Run Your Own Mail Server has owned me for days. I haven’t been able to write a word for two weeks now. So here’s a chunk…
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60: Free Probing from the Greys
My brain is tired after the email book, and needs the concrete beaten out of it. The more experienced GalactiCop is on his fifth life, old enough to actually…
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59: Dark Purple Highlighters
The Run Your Own Mail Server launch is eating all my time, what with ordering hundreds of books and shipping them across the world. It’s brought cash…
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58: Nuclear Waste with a Few Rubies
My time has mostly been Run Your Own Mail Server fulfillment, but I finally got Dear Abyss off to copyedit. I have absolutely nothing against developers…
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57: I Play the Heavy
I’m prepping to write a new edition of Networking for Systems Administrators. Here’s a bit from the beginning where I’m talking to network…
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56: Three Debacles in a Trenchcoat
I’m in Lost Vegas meeting with editors, publishers, and other writers, figuring out how to break publishing. It’s rather like BlackHat, except…
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55: Eldritch Faery Queen Glamour
Been super busy with Run Your Own Mail Server page layout, but took a break to finish writing next month’s FreeBSD Journal Letters column. These…
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54: Immediately After This Book Escapes
I’m buried in final corrections for Run Your Own Mail Server so here’s a snippet from that. You must be comfortable acquiring and managing TLS and the…
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53: Working with Delta
I’m working on the last FreeBSD Journal “Letters” column to appear in Dear Abyss. I’ll launch the Kickstarter after the column appears…
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52: The Second Time, With A Knife
Hello. Welcome to Sixty Seconds of WIP. I’m Michael Warren Lucas. Today is (11 June 2024). I’m in the last week of my anthology submission binge, working on a…
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51: Soviet Texas
I’m working on a new Aidan Redding story, but can’t share any of it yet. Contract terms, y’know. I can say it’s a Class D universe…
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50: My Childish Behavior
I’m fighting with the Kickstarter web interface to fulfill the Run Your Own Mail Server campaign and trying to get Dear Abyss ready for launch, so…
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49: Witnessed from Gleaming Eye Sockets
I’m mostly resting this week because I’m taking vacation after BSDCan and the Kickstarter of WTF. Not sure which was more exhausting. The new Steampunk…
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48: Three Pounds of Skull Pudding
My next book will be Dear Abyss: The FreeBSD Journal Letters Column, Years 1-6. Seeing as each column was written in a one hour burst of bile, I’m going…
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47: Agent of Desertification
Here’s a snippet of the next Letters column for the FreeBSD Journal. We’ve all seen the propaganda on configuration management. Deploy dedicated-purpose…
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46: The Innumerable Things I Detest
Run Your Own Mail Server is at copyedit and live on Kickstarter, so I’m working on my TLS course for BSDCan. The course is stolen from the pages of TLS…
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45: Abusing the Protocol
Kickstarter next Monday so RYOMS has to be at copyedit before then, and my wife broke her leg last week. I’m glad an episode exists, at all. Email uses…
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44: Too Much Trouble To Bother
I’m churning through the tech edits on Run Your Own Mail Server so I can get it to copyedit before the Kickstarter launches, partially because it’s…
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43: A Truth Universally Acknowledged
This week’s text production is for the Run Your Own Mail Server Kickstarter. I’m also turning RYOMS into a four-hour class for BSDCan and getting…
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Pretty Spam
Today we have a chunk from Run Your Own Mail Server. Email clients like Outlook and Thunderbird expect to communicate with a fully functional mail system. You…
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41: Fresh Piglets
I have done no writing this week. My gig as BSDCan con chair sucked up my time. Next week, I’ll be going through Run Your Own Mail Server tech edits. I…
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40: Failure is a Renewable Resource
Today’s reading is from next month’s FreeBSD Journal Letters column. Perhaps you have extensive monitoring and log analysis, all meticulously tuned…
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39: I Carry A Grudge
This book won’t be in progress long. I hope. These block lists are distributed via DNS, and are called DNS Block Lists (DNSBL). (You’ll also see…
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38: A Fanatical Devotion to Magic Mushrooms
Today’s snippet is from a new Rats’ Man’s Lackey tale. Whackadoo Manor was least creepy at sunrise. The sideways light highlighted the bright…
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37: Send Physical Postcards
Still focusing on Run Your Own Mail Server, and so close to the end I could spit on it. Remember, we’re talking about a protocol that doesn’t require…
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36: The Thirty Ton Replacement
As sort-of expected, the last chapter of Run Your Own Mail Server is getting split into tech detritus and social detritus. I’ll probably split this into…
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35: The Day's Third Hogshead
Here’s a snippet from my forthcoming Letters column for the FreeBSD Journal. While “no” is sufficient answer to your question, the Journal editors insist…
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34: My Magnificent Sponsors
I have finished the rspamd chapter, and am what I think will be the last chapter. Unless I break it into two pieces, one social and one technical…
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33: Larry Leg-Breaker's Betting Parlor and Emergency Financial Services
I’m no longer dreading writing Run Your Own Mail Server, because I have moved on to dreading the first time I spellcheck it. Fortunately, I’m still…
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32: Only Mildly Suspicious
Rspamd is the best solution we have for managing spam, and that’s… kind of terrifying. Consider the first symbol, URI_COUNT_ODD. The description…
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31: Bringing All These Failures Together
I’m writing about rspamd for Run Your Own Mail Server. Have you ever looked at a JSON configuration and thought, That could be a regular Unix text file?…
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30: The Expected Heat Death of the Universe
Grinding hard on Run Your Own Mail Server. Modern DKIM uses 2048-bit keys. With current mathematical understanding, they are not brute-force breakable before…
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29: I Find Your Lack of DMARC Disturbing
This book is going to get me hate mail from DMARC advocates, but otherwise I would get hate mail from users. Users win. If you don’t publish DMARC records…
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28: A Griddle Big as the Sky
Declaring the existence of something is a way to make me finish them. Here’s a chunk from the Giant Unnamed Fiction Project. Weirder, Liberty could see…
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27: Obviously Forged
Here’s another chunk from Run Your Own Mail Server. Ideally, sysadmins want all the messages from their domain to conform to the highest possible…
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26: It Can, But Doesn't
Still hammering on Run Your Own Mail Server. If you’ve worked with signing protocols like OpenPGP, you’re familiar with digital signatures. You take a chunk of…
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25: Shoes with Wheels on the Heels
Here’s a snippet from this month’s FreeBSD Journal Letters column. System administration in a modern enterprise is like performing an oil change on…
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24: Little Soft Creatures
Today’s sample is from Fair Balls, a Prohibition Orcs tale that’s going to my backers next week and the rest of the world next April. The tiny…
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23: Bayseian Statistics and Fuzzy Hashes
I would love to finish this book before 2024. It’s not going to happen, but I would love to do it. Redis is a database, but not in the way PostgreSQL or…
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22: Sugarplum is a Lying Bastard
Ah, US Thanksgiving. The start of the You Will Love Christmas Forced Death March. If you own the proper sunglasses you can see that all the billboards are…
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21: The Man Will Be Wrong
I offered an orc baseball story as a stretch goal for last year’s two-book Prohibition Orcs kickstarter. I really need to get the dang thing done, so…
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20: The More Obscure Additional Protocols of the Geneva Convention
Trying to get this dang book done, so pushing forward. If I receive another email from a particular recruiting firm offering me the magnificent opportunity of…
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19: Accidental Deployments
I’ve been trying to focus on Run Your Own Mail Server throughout October, and making some progress. Greylisting is a divisive technique. The first time a…
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18: The Yoda of the Primordial Internet
Today we’ve got a chunk of Run Your Own Mail Server. For many years Jon Postel, the Yoda of the primordial Internet, suggested that software should be…
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17: The Math Department's Chief Bastard
In recent years I’ve discovered a talent for Christmas tales. No, not happy cheerful Christmas tales. The other kind. My story The Last Multivariable…
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16: Consume Brain Space
Let’s have another snippet of Run Your Own Mail Server. Text file configuration works great for settings that rarely change. If your mail server is truly…