Category: Linux
Everything filed under Linux.
Conquering Caffeinated Amazon Athena with the metis Trio of Packages
I must preface this post with the posit that if you're doing anything interactive() with Amazon Athena you should seriously consider just using their free ODBC drivers as it's the easiest way to wire them up to R DBI- and tidyverse-wise.…
Moving From system() calls to Rcpp Interfaces
Over on the Data Driven Security Blog there's a post on how to use Rcpp to interface with an external library (in this case ldns for DNS lookups). It builds on another post which uses system() to make a call to dig to lookup DNS TXT…
Securing 'su' with Google Authenticator
Google's new do-it-yourself two-factor authentication (Google Authenticator) enables you to setup stronger logins on your linux system. Nick Wilkens (@nwilkens) has a good/quick tutorial up on his company's blog for acquiring, compiling…
Backup Workflow
I'm [still] a die-hard OS X user, despite the increasing gatekeeper motif Apple is sporting these days. My main computer is a MacBook Pro which I would stupidly run back into a burning building to rescue. Everything is on it. Everything .…