Monthly Archives: August 2014

Ruminations on the Cybersecurity Hiring Crisis

Posted on August 30, 2014 by The Civilized Cynic

I came across a pair of articles over at ZDNet: Cybersecurity’s hiring crisis: a troubling trajectory Cybersecurity’s hiring crisis: Rockstars, anger, and the billion dollar problem This is a well-known issue in information technology, but it does not seem to … Continue reading →

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Lamentations

Posted on August 20, 2014 by The Civilized Cynic

Where is the Islam whose scripture I read and cherish?  It is a demonstration of humanity’s capacity for immorality that its immortal treasures should be paraded about by those who are dead inside.  That the wage of sin is death … Continue reading →

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Installing Linux Integration Components on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 Guest Domains on Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V

Posted on August 11, 2014 by The Civilized Cynic

Immediately after finalizing the installation of my RHEL 6.5 guest domain, I found that the adapter reported its status as “Degraded (Integration services upgrade required).” At first, I came to believe that, while RHEL 6.5 ships with the integration components … Continue reading →

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Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux Guest Domains in Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V

Posted on August 8, 2014 by The Civilized Cynic

So I finally got my hands on a sweet HP rig (ProLiant BL460c Gen8) with Windows Server 2012 R2 installed.  Yeah, it’s got 32 processor cores with Hyperthreading, 128 GB of RAM, and 3 TB of SAN storage over a … Continue reading →

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