Author Archives: George Valentin Voina

Summer days philosophy : The “paper straw” metric, mega yachts and the “green bulshit” .

By | June 29, 2025

What a wonderful thing, to relax, sit by the sea, with a gin tonic in your hand. What can spoil that moment? Obviously, because I am always picky and obsessive to find flaws in everything, I found it. The f.king paper straw that dissolved half way my gin tonic. Annoyed by it I looked up… Read More »

The Ultimate Business Travel Packing List: My Guide to a Seamless Trip

By | August 11, 2025

Business travel can be a whirlwind of meetings, presentations, and networking. The last thing you need is to realize you’ve forgotten an essential item when you’re thousands of miles from home. A well-organized packing list is the cornerstone of a stress-free and productive business trip. Drawing inspiration from a comprehensive packing check-list, I have put… Read More »

AI clown world

By | June 6, 2025

Tired of all the absurd news that makes me feel we are living in a clown world. The best part I can ask gemini to describe it. Gemini generated clown world! AI will replace us, but we discover that most of the companies just fake it. We have AI companies that get busted for using… Read More »

Bash one liners: Keeping an Eye on Connections: Using tcpdump to Monitor Client-Server Port Activity

By | May 30, 2025

In the world of network administration and troubleshooting, there are countless moments when you need to verify connectivity. Is a specific client successfully reaching a server on a designated port? Is the server responding? Or is something silently dropping the packets? For these scenarios, the command-line tool tcpdump is an invaluable asset – powerful, versatile,… Read More »

My Family Name Domain and the Multilingual Ransomware Scam

By | May 12, 2025

I own my family name as an internet domain with several country codes. It’s not every day you get to claim your heritage in the digital world like that. However, this seemingly harmless act has turned me into an unexpected recipient of a rather peculiar type of email: the multilingual ransomware scam. My inbox, normally… Read More »