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My Amazon S3 Mistake
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Docker Image Insecurity
Docker's report that a downloaded image is "verified" is based solely on the presence of a signed manifest, and Docker never verifies the image checksum from the manifest.
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Revisiting the “Cookieless Domain” Recommendation
For a long time one of the recommendations for a faster site has been to “serve your static content from a cookieless domain”. This sugges...
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Clean OS reinstalls with propellor
You have a machine someplace, probably in The Cloud, and it has Linux installed, but not to your liking. You want to do a clean reinstall, maybe switching the distribution, or getting rid of the cruft. But this requires running an installer, and it's too difficult to run d-i on remote machines.
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The Move from Linux to FreeBSD
About 2 months ago, I had a spare VPS at my host, Hetzner. So I decided to play with FreeBSD which was being offered for Hetzner servers and VPSes.That’s how the whole thing started. I didn’t have much problems getting the concepts because it belongs to *nix family of OSes [...]
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SmartDataCenter and Manta are now open source
Today we are announcing that we are open sourcing the two systems at the heart of our business: SmartDataCenter and the Manta object storage platform . SmartDataCenter is the container-based orchestration software that runs the Joyent public cloud ; we have used it for the better half of a decade to run on-the-metal…
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Docker Development Patterns
In the past I've written about my "home cloud" that used to be OpenVz containers, and how I've come to advocate rebuilding the "build server" for every build
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Using GNU Stow to manage your dotfiles
Adaptation, Algorithms and Ambience
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Avoiding systemd isn't hard
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Building Good Docker Images
The docker registry is bursting at the seams. At the time of this writing, a search for “node” gets just under 1000 hits. How does one choose?
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Running GUI apps with Docker
I've been doing all of my real (paid) work on VMs / containers for a while now but when it comes to writing Java code...
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Bash bug: the other two RCEs, or how we chipped away at the original fix
The patch that implements a prefix-based way to mitigate vulnerabilities in bash function exports has been out since last week and has been...
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Bash bug: apply the unofficial patch now (CVE-2014-6277)
OK, rebuild bash and deploy Florian's unofficial patch or its now-upstream version now. If you're a distro maintainer, please consider doi...
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Nick Craver - What it takes to run Stack Overflow
I like to think of Stack Overflow as running with scale but not at scale. By that I meant we run very efficiently, but I still don’t think of us as “big”, n...
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Quick notes about the bash bug, its impact, and the fixes so far
We spent a good chunk of the day investigating the now-famous bash bug (CVE-2014-6271), so I had no time to make too many jokes about it on...
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Why systemd?
This blog post is based on a talk I gave on 2014-05-21. For a few years now, GNU/Linux distributions have been migrating away from SysV ini...
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