Archive for April, 2010
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…
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Monday, April 19th, 2010
collection of links to notes and papers about DHT [Distributed Hash Tables] implementation and various related topics.
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Friday, April 16th, 2010
“Tail lamp assy Right” – Outback – Outback — Y 08-09 // for fixing broken real stop light assembly
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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
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Wednesday, April 14th, 2010
An excellent [attempt of ] description of the GSM cell phones hardware, design, architecture and implementation
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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
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Wednesday, April 14th, 2010
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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…
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Tuesday, April 13th, 2010
Notes (exert) from Joanna Rutkowska recent paper comparing KVN and XEN architectures from security and design standpoint
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Tuesday, April 13th, 2010
Also, see how to repair it http://www.popularmechanics.com/home/improvement/electrical-plumbing/1276061
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