Category Archives: F5 Networks

Linus on Instantiation and Armadaification

Posted on August 9, 2012 by C.J. Adams-Collier

I feel a sense of pride when I think that I was involved in the development and maintenance of what was probably the first piece of software accepted into Debian which then had and still has direct up-stream support from … Continue reading →

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NIST::NVD::Store::SQLite3 1.00.00

Posted on July 18, 2012 by C.J. Adams-Collier

It’s been released. Use this with NIST::NVD 1.00.00 and you will be able to perform immediate look-ups of CVE and CWE data given a CPE URN. For instance: cjac@foxtrot:/usr/src/git/f5/NIST-NVD-Store-SQLite3$ perl Makefile.PL ; make ; make test ; cjac@foxtrot:/usr/src/git/f5/NIST-NVD-Store-SQLite3$ perl -MNIST::NVD::Query … Continue reading →

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Spinning up a telco with Asterisk

Posted on June 10, 2012 by C.J. Adams-Collier

Back in 2010 our family moved to an island in an archipelago in the very top left of the US’s continental 48. Before moving, we did some research regarding high speed network access. There are a number of ISPs in … Continue reading →

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NIST::NVD CWE development – follow along

Posted on February 16, 2012 by C.J. Adams-Collier

I’m in the process of getting the tests passing for the 0.03 release of NIST::NVD::Store::SQLite3 wherein our hero imports the CWE data and cross-indexes it with CVEs and CPEs. Follow along and suggest some patches. I’m developing on Debian Wheezy, … Continue reading →

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NIST::NVD::Store::SQLite3

Posted on February 9, 2012 by C.J. Adams-Collier

I published an SQLite3 storage back-end to NIST::NVD on the CPAN. It’s pretty quick. About as fast as the DB_File one, but without the down side of being tied to DB_File. It shouldn’t be too difficult to re-factor this code … Continue reading →

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SELinux on Wheezy

Posted on February 8, 2012 by C.J. Adams-Collier

So, Collier Technologies LLC needs to pass annual audits to operate a certification authority recognized by the SoS. To this end, I’m working with the fine group of developers who maintain SELinux. It seems that the configuration of Xorg that … Continue reading →

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Power blip in Tukwila – everything’s okay.

Posted on January 20, 2012 by C.J. Adams-Collier

There’s been a lot of weather here in Seattle this week. It looks like the Tukwila DC’s power blipped this morning. It gave me an excuse to update some configs on a few of the OpenVPN endpoints, re-configure some of … Continue reading →

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Perl interface to processing / querying NIST’s NVD feed

Posted on December 16, 2011 by C.J. Adams-Collier

For a work project, I wrote a library in perl that can be used to query the NVD feed that NIST publishes here: http://nvd.nist.gov/download.cfm Here’s a snippit from the perldoc: use NIST::NVD::Query; # use convert_nvdcve to generate these files from … Continue reading →

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F5 opens second International Technology Center in London

Posted on December 7, 2011 by C.J. Adams-Collier

Very cool. Presided over by my friend and the VP of our group, Erik Giesa. Notably lacking is the inclusion of a picture of Steve Mitchell’s smiling face. The first of our ITCs is here in Seattle. We’ve got some … Continue reading →

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