Rackspace’s Halloween Spirit
Cloud provider Rackspace seems to be in the Halloween spirit, judging by the photos in their header.
View ArticleNetflix OpenConnect
With Netflix accounting for 30% of end-user ISP traffic, Netflix came out with an appliance ISPs could place inside their networks, to reduce the amount of upstream bandwidth they use serving Netflix...
View ArticleAWS Comes to Australia
Amazon has just announced that it’s added a new AWS region in Sydney, Australia. (They had already expanded Route 53 and CloudFront there as part of their global infrastructure, but now it’s a...
View ArticleJohn McAfee Hides in Cardboard Box
In what sounds more like a drug-fueled hallucination than an actual news story, John McAfee, of McAfee anti-virus fame, is on the run after his neighbor in Belize turned up dead. He maintains his...
View ArticleGitHub Gets an ASN
While GitHub has, for a long time, been hosted by Rackspace, it looks like they’ve recently been assigned an ASN and set up a presence at Equinix’s Ashburn facility. (Though their network is apparently...
View ArticleAnother Link Roundup
A haphazard assortment of interesting (to me) links: Someone on the ntp-pool list shared a blog post about building a stratum 1 NTP server with a Raspberry Pi and a GPS. I should see about trying this...
View ArticleMore links: Rails 4 tutorials, ultrawide monitors, security, and more
Time for another of sporadic roundups of interesting reads on the Internet. LG’s 29EA93-P 29″ monitor, 2560×1080, about $700. (At NewEgg, for example.) It’s quite an odd aspect ratio, and you’d save a...
View ArticleSELinux for Mere Mortals
I missed the talk at Summit last year, but it turns out that they’re all online… So check out the SELinux for Mere Mortals talk. I’ve come to realize that there are two types of people—people who...
View ArticleFixing “Invalid key 0 given to dptr_close”
Last night, I threw together a quick Samba server on a RHEL 6.4 machine at home. (I’m running RHEL, but you’d almost certainly have an identical experience on CentOS.) I set up user homedirs accessed...
View ArticleRidiculously Easy SOCKS Proxy with ssh
Sometimes, ssh tunneling a port is insufficient. It’s fantastic if you want to remotely access some system, but suppose you want more of an ad-hoc VPN/proxy, to allow you to, say, browse the web...
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