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New
The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 47 posts.
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The EC2 firewall is broken
As most standards-aware network administrators know, blocking ICMP is evil. Sure, there are certain ICMP packets which should be blocked; but to quote RFC 2979 :
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$15 Dedicated servers from OVH
While most of VPS providers are trying hard to stay in the business with their sub $5 VPS plans, OVH which is the worlds biggest consumer data center located in France is now ( uh for sometime ) offering $15 a month dedicated servers. While OVH has data center in Canada, this cheap offering is only available in their…
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How To Set Up Your Linode For Maximum Awesomeness
Feross Aboukhadijeh is a computer security researcher, teacher, web developer, designer, long distance runner, gamer, music lover, and builder of websites that (sometimes) go viral.
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The UK has an entire IPv4 /8 that it isn't using
IMPORTANT UPDATES BELOW If you take a look at the list of IPv4 allocated /8 blocks there's one interesting block in there: 51.0.0.0/8 ...
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Using /usr/local
Technologist, podcaster, and inventor. Founder of the 5by5 podcast network and Fireside.
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APIs for Manufacturing
Perhaps you too remember that crayon-factory segment from Sesame Street. The one where they show dramatic shots of hot orange wax getting poured into vats and molds and eventually labeled and boxed up into neat packages of the rainbow, while Skrillex-junior music played in the background. This was my favorite segment…
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Unix Commands I Abuse Every Day
A co-worker watched me type the other day and noticed that I use certain Unix commands for purposes other than they are intended. Yes, I abuse Unix commands.
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Why Tarsnap doesn't use Glacier
On the surface, Tarsnap sounds like the perfect use case for Glacier. Out of every TB of data stored on Tarsnap, in any given month approximately 100 GB of data will be deleted, while only 33 GB of data will be downloaded; in other words, Tarsnap is very much a "write once, read maybe " storage system. Tarsnap's…
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The Switch from Heroku to Hardware
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How ZFS continues to be better than Btrfs.
ZFS keeps winning over btrfs on many fronts. Here's a short list that explains exactly how.
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Snowflake Server
a bliki entry for Snowflake Server
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Tarsnap outage post-mortem
When the Tarsnap EC2 instance came back online about an hour later, I found that the abrupt loss of power had resulted in filesystem corruption. As I explained in a blog post in December 2008, Tarsnap stores all user data in Amazon S3, but keeps metadata cached in EC2 . While I could not see any evidence that the…
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Vulnerabilities in Heroku's Build System
Last week I discovered a major security flaw in the Heroku Cedar stack build. This vulnerability exposed sensitive information including API keys, private keys and server credentials.
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The Cloud Is Not for You
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Back That Gmail Up
I’m not leery of Google shuttering its Gmail service, but I can imagine a scenario where they cut off my access to Gmail and I have no way to plead my case to the search behemoth. So I went looking …
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