Category Archives: Joel Esler

Tuning Snort with Host Attribute Tables – CSO Online – Security and Risk

Tuning Snort with Host Attribute Tables – CSO Online – Security and Risk.
Here is an article I wrote for CSO magazine, thought the readers of my blog might like to check it out as well.
I was asked to write a fairly technical article for CSO magazine about Snort, the problem is, which part of Snort [...]

This week was busy

This week, we at Sourcefire had our annual Sales Kickoff meeting. Basically a good look backwards at 2009, and what we did right and wrong, a look ahead and goals for 2010.
Obviously most of what we talked about is corporate confidential, but I think we all left with a good idea about where [...]

iPhone compatability

When I moved to the current theme, I received a couple emails telling me that the theme is hard to read on an iPhone.  So I fixed that.  If you browse to the blog on an iPhone you will now receive a completely different screen and interface, one that is very iPhone compatible, user-friendly, and [...]

SSH keys, my how I hate you sometimes.

So, earlier today I was setting up some SSH keys to be able to connect back and forth between various machines in my network.  Seems like a normal thing for a guy with a bunch of Unix machines around the house to do right?  Well, apparently it was more painful than I thought.
I had:
PubkeyAuthentication yes
I [...]

Review: Vtech DS6322 w/ Bluetooth

My wife bought me this for Xmas, and it’s probably one of the best ideas ever.  The Vtech DS6322 w/ Bluetooth, is a 3 or 4 phone kit with bases (with an answering machine) that has Bluetooth capability.  Buy.com has it here.  So, after I paired my wife and I’s cell phones to the base, [...]

Moving to Wordpress

I just wanted to put out that moving to Wordpress, from Blogger, is probably one of the more painful experiences in my life so far.  But I found out a few things.
First things first, I found out that Wordpress, is actually, a really good platform for webpage creation.  Notice that I didn’t say blogging, it [...]

How to totally screw up a Wordpess blog…

Do whatever I just did.
I lost about 4 posts. Sorry about that. I’m so awesome.
If you happen to have those last few posts of mine, feel free to email them to me.

A friend and his Evernote installation

Evernote. The thing that has saved my sanity, and countless trees around the world to prevent things from being printed out. The ubiquitous capture tool. Anything you want to remember, on the computer, in voice, in pictures, darn near everything you can put into a digital device can be recorded into this [...]

Hey, something is different here….

So… You may notice something looks a little different here. I moved a couple things.

I moved the blog from me.com’s servers, back to blogger’s servers. I have my reasons, mainly, because I lost a lot of visibility into my reader’s favorite links.
I also changed the theme. As much as I like [...]

Desk Clearing Challenge

Okay, here’s my Challenge for you all.

Take your desk. Work, home, wherever it is.

Take everything off it. Everything except your computer. (Mouse, Keyboard, Monitor, iPod/iPhone dock, maybe some speakers too can stay). Everything else comes off. Put it on a pile on the floor or in your inbox or something. [...]

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