Blogs

team
Oct
6
2022

Kernel Module Snippets – Part 1 – Hello World

Intro As a packet slinger by trade, a network admin, and also a bit of a programmer, I lately embarked on a quest for better throughput – to find a way to get more packets to pass through a rather small footprint low-cost device running a VPN tunnel.

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team
Sep
24
2022

Kernel Module Snippets – Part 3 – UDP in the kernel

Intro A part of the project I’ve been working on requires the use of a virtual network device.

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team
Oct
1
2020

Kernel Module Snippets - Part 5 - Encryption

Intro Key to transporting anything over the internet these days, is encryption. For a tunnel, this involved encrypting the whole packet that would be your payload.

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team
Sep
30
2020

Kernel Module Snippets – Part 4 – UDP in the kernel

Intro There are many ways to implement the UDP handling. Since I’m primarily interested in using UDP to tunnel traffic from a client to a server, both of which are known and controlled by me, I’m going to implement a udp_tunnel.

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team
Sep
17
2020

Kernel Module Snippets – Part 2 – Hello World Continued

Intro In the last post, I mentioned the /proc system but never got much further. We’ll delve a little deeper in this post.

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team
Mar
17
2020

Strategies to lead remote team members WELL

I know that, like me, you’re getting inundated with emails from people you don’t normally hear about, as to what they are doing with Covid 19.

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team
Mar
17
2020

Covid-19 – Technology considerations and 6+ ways we can help

The global circumstances around the Covid-19 outbreak, which the World Health Organization is now calling a pandemic, continue to rapidly evolve.

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team
Jan
23
2020

Rebuilding a technology culture from constant mistakes to high quality

The culture in many companies (not just technology) is to blame an employee for mistakes, not doing a good enough job, being sloppy, being slower than expected, etc.

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team
Jan
21
2020

3 Keys To Nurture Your ‘A’ Player

So you’ve just hired an A player in a technical role – young, super “green,” and with all the potential in the world.

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team
Nov
5
2019

Linux websites, Black Friday, and Cyber Monday

Today we received the following impromptu and unsoliciated testimonial from one of our clients. “Also, I can’t stress enough how thankful I am that last year went so well.

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team
Oct
19
2019

Using geeky Open Source tools to visualize what TRULY matters for the health of your company

As announced in a previous blog post, Richard and myself presented at the BC Tech Association several months ago. We shared our story on how we repurposed DevOps, software development, and system monitoring tools (like Grafana) to transform our business by visualizing the key drivers to our business model.

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team
Oct
8
2019

Our first snail-mail print newsletter

We recently sent out our first newsletter in the mail and have received positive feedback on it. The goal is to share some of the content we’ve written in our blog post, educate our readers, and give a peek into the world of the Crafty Penguins.

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