Archive for April, 2010

Reliable Linux backups: How to backup Linux, BSD and other Unix-like systems properly

Monday, April 19th, 2010

General notes about backup systems, useful when u need to explain something to other ppl, — use can use this notes instead of writing your own. (no info about “advanced” topics, like differential, incremental, reverse vs forward deltas, bare-metal r…

Distributed Hash Tables Links

Monday, April 19th, 2010

collection of links to notes and papers about DHT [Distributed Hash Tables] implementation and various related topics.

1st Subaru Parts – Discount Subaru Parts & Accessories below wholesale

Friday, April 16th, 2010

“Tail lamp assy Right” – Outback – Outback — Y 08-09 // for fixing broken real stop light assembly

Man page of ddsnap [Sync LVM snapshots to backup server]

Thursday, April 15th, 2010

a way to ‘sync’ block devices in ‘rsync’ style. Useful to implement backup of xen VMs based on LVM volumes. Also see http://serverfault.com/questions/27397/sync-lvm-snapshots-to-backup-server

Harald Welte’s blog — Paper: Anatomy of contemporary GSM cellphones

Wednesday, April 14th, 2010

An excellent [attempt of ] description of the GSM cell phones hardware, design, architecture and implementation

[cross-lang object serialization library] The MessagePack Project

Wednesday, April 14th, 2010

“MessagePack is a binary-based efficient object serialization library. It enables to exchange structured objects between many languages like JSON. But unlike JSON, it is very fast and small.” cpan Data::MessagePack

Stainless steel flex connectors – Best selection on the Internet from PlumbingSupply.com

Wednesday, April 14th, 2010

flex still connectors

[Flash Player P2P Propriotary P2P Media Delivery Protocol called ] RTMFP Overview

Wednesday, April 14th, 2010

“secret of ChatRoulette”. Describes details of RTMFP protocol, that Flash Player (from v.10.1 and above ) uses for media delivery. Protocol is closed/proprietary, encrypted, UDP-based, uses “forward” servers to establish direct session between th…

[ENG ]Xen vs. KVM security architecture comparison [from forum.opennet.ru - "Qubes - новая безопасная операционная система на базе Linux ..."]

Tuesday, April 13th, 2010

Notes (exert) from Joanna Rutkowska recent paper comparing KVN and XEN architectures from security and design standpoint

HowStuffWorks "How Icemakers Work"

Tuesday, April 13th, 2010

Also, see how to repair it http://www.popularmechanics.com/home/improvement/electrical-plumbing/1276061