One of our companies recently started offering its services on a popular job posting site – freelancer.com. Unfortunately, the most recent experience we had with their portal calls for some extra precautions down the road. Continue reading “How to scam employees on Freelancer.com”
How Amazon Helps The Scammers Thrive
A friend of mine recently moved from EU to US and tried to log into his Amazon account. What happened afterwards could only be described as a comedy of errors on their behalf. Continue reading “How Amazon Helps The Scammers Thrive”
Azure AD Connect Duplicate Entries
If your system uses AADDS for authentication, Azure AD Connect is a great way to improve the user experience in corporate environments. Unfortunately, this quite new successor to DirConnect doesn’t always get things right and you might end up with duplicate content in your Azure / O365 tenant. Continue reading “Azure AD Connect Duplicate Entries”
“Unable to verify account name or password” High Sierra bug
As if logging in as root without a password and constant freezes with external displays weren’t enough, Apple decided to make life even more thrilling for Exchange 2016 users by not supporting http/2 in High Sierra. Continue reading ““Unable to verify account name or password” High Sierra bug”
notMNIST Homebrew Setup
A quick and dirty reference for those who want to complete the notmnist tutorials on their Macs without using Docker containers. Continue reading “notMNIST Homebrew Setup”
Psychological Aspects of IT Management
Over the past few decades, technological advances took our everyday life by a storm. As computers become smaller and cheaper to manufacture, we find ourselves increasingly dependent on software applications – even in the most unexpected life areas. This trend will continue – while new discoveries push the frontier of miniaturization, more branches of science will soon recognize and take advantage of this breakthrough approach. Continue reading “Psychological Aspects of IT Management”
Ethics in a Jar
It was a cold autumn night, 10th of November 1619, when young René Descartes in his nightmares encountered an evil demon of deception for the very first time.
Proxmox VM Watchdogs
Despite substantial investments in HA infrastructure, Proxmox cluster could still be vulnerable to services interruptions caused by unstable guests. There is one great feature provided by KVM that can help minimize the effect of such incidents. Continue reading “Proxmox VM Watchdogs”
ARI Transcoding Trap
During my recent experiments with ARI stress testing, I’ve noticed that despite making all the right decisions for the most part, it does come short in certain specific situations and relies on the programmer to provide the missing bit of intelligence. Continue reading “ARI Transcoding Trap”
PyCharm VirtualEnv ZSH Terminal
Despite numerous requests from thier userbase, JetBrains has yet to implement automatic virtualenv activation in the integrated Terminal window when in a project view. This post shows how to achieve this goal using zsh & Mac OS. Continue reading “PyCharm VirtualEnv ZSH Terminal”