Chris C

Chris C @skyandsand

About: Humanist living the Colorado life, w/ a modicum of scripting experience. My background is across multiple industries (mostly contract work). Emotional intelligence > Artificial Intelligence

Location:
USA
Joined:
Aug 28, 2019

Chris C
articles - 17 total

Convert an old PC into a network-attached storage (NAS) using open-source software!

https://openmediavault.readthedocs.io/en/5.x/ This is a fun experiment to try at home for building a...

Learn More 2 0Jan 18 '21

SASE: Secure Access Service Edge podcast on scaling out your cloud config securely

https://open.spotify.com/episode/4fO97ZBkrSVMbJ1TP0kmYX?si=rSLJFYDLQ9CEXX8R1eQ6Fg&context=spotify...

Learn More 1 0Jul 20 '20

Students: Want to win a cool System76 Desktop PC? Enter your dev project. Open to high school or undergrads (ends 5/29/2020)

Create and share an open source project that addresses climate change and/or pollution. Must be licen...

Learn More 2 1May 18 '20

A helpful cyber-security game for parents/kids in 2020

DEV network, I do not have any children myself. Only some plants and a 100 pound German Shepherd (wh...

Learn More 7 0Apr 16 '20

Does the DEV community have any house/garden plants they want to show off?

I will admit I'm not a plant expert by any stretch of the imagination but in permanent remote setting...

Learn More 12 18Apr 5 '20

Want to be part of a botnet that could potentially provide new medical information on COVID19 RNA? There's an app for that

https://foldingathome.org/start-folding/ 99% of the time, you would not voluntarily join a botnet. B...

Learn More 5 0Mar 23 '20

One of the founding fathers of the Web is working on a new project to manage how your personal data is shared

https://solid.mit.edu/ Tim Berners-Lee is directing this. Known as SOLID: for "social linked data"...

Learn More 7 0Mar 2 '20

My Research paper on the 2017 Equifax Breach and potential AWS solutions

You may have read this week that on Feb 10, 2020 the United States DoJ charged Chinese military membe...

Learn More 3 0Feb 14 '20

How much effort should be put into e-mail?

If you're like me and have inbox anxiety on more days than you would like, I find concise messages th...

Learn More 3 2Jan 22 '20

Seeking any help/resources for MacOS logging using Splunk

We need to index system logs from about 100 Macs using Splunk. I have more experience with iOS mobile...

Learn More 3 0Dec 18 '19

If you want to develop Linux applications, an article on how Linux apt package management works:

https://devconnected.com/apt-package-manager-on-linux-explained/

Learn More 4 0Nov 13 '19

Git on Windows for Sysadmins

Found this blog on Git basics (if you lean more on the Sysadmin side of things like myself). https:/...

Learn More 10 0Oct 29 '19

Discuss: Has anyone here built their own home server or home lab?

I am planning on buying some old hardware soon to play around with a home server and some VM's. PC -...

Learn More 7 4Oct 9 '19

Excel 2019 update will introduce a vLookup replacement: xLookup

https://www.excelcampus.com/functions/xlookup-explained While vLookup will still be available for my...

Learn More 5 1Oct 2 '19

How valuable do you think a Master's Degree in Information Technology Management can be? 📒📝

Today I embark on a possible fork in the road of continuing my education with a 2-year Graduate degre...

Learn More 3 0Sep 25 '19

My Bookmarks for Developer and other IT Resources

Over the years, I have dabbled in various software/hardware studies and hobbyist blogs, in addition t...

Learn More 121 5Sep 3 '19

2011 Paper I wrote Foreshadowing Botnets

Botnets: A global threat Cybercrime is one of the fastest growing crimes in the world. Wit...

Learn More 7 0Aug 29 '19