I've tried LastPass before, but couldn't quite get the hang of it. I found it fairly frustrating as well that it prompted me all the time: "Do you want LastPass to remember this information? I know you're not really thinking about me right…
In the twenty-odd years since the Internet was invented by physicists at CERN, I've considered more than a handful of times keeping a blog. It's a difficult thing to digest. Anyone who takes writing seriously, whether or not he sees himself as a writer, wants to…
From the Terrible Solutions to Terrible Problems Dep't: I deleted a file on a web server. It was a CSS file, a file I wanted, a file that makes things right, that is hard to recreate without a backup. A file I hadn't backed up because…
Speaking of SSH, our key generator was also not working. The access rights to the key generation service were still restricted to our development team's networks. It is now open and working — sorry for the problem!…
To all in attendance at the OSG-CIC workshop at Duke University: the problem we were seeing earlier in which SSH keys submitted at the OSG Connect Portal is resolved. SSH keys should be provisioned now as expected. Please let us know if you're still seeing problems!…
I'm a longtime user of our campus XMPP Instant Messaging service (a.k.a. Jabber). It can be useful for initiating a support contact and getting a quick answer, or for starting the process of managing a longer-duration support issue in the ticketing system. Chat isn't…
Our UC3 User Jamboree of two weeks ago was a great success. We've had several new requests for access based on our presentations from two Thursdays ago. As Lincoln reports, one new user — an evolutionary biology post-doc — is discovering new opportunities for computation through UC3's Condor…
I've wanted several times to mount KVM disk images under the KVM host operating system, and I keep forgetting the technical details. Marco has needed this too, I remember, so I thought I'd write a post about it to remind me next time. The obvious answer…