Archive for the 'Computers' Category

Appendix F – Personal observations on the reliability of the Shuttle by R. P. Feynman

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

famous and somewhat forgotten so called “minority report” by Richard Feynman on the aftermath of Challenger Shuttle disaster in 1986 that determent that management culture of NASA to responsible for the disaster, and not some particular technical fa…

Tenable Network Security: Ranum’s Rants – The Anatomy of Security Disasters

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

highly recommended read for anyone dealing with security and PHBs. This is by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_J._Ranum

Experiences using nginx to front-end apache

Wednesday, May 20th, 2009

some notes about keep-alive proxy setup for apache

[nginx forum post] Centralized logging for multiple servers

Wednesday, May 20th, 2009

post on nginx forum that provides some insights about central logging / log collections

TCP Tuning Guide [Office of Science, DOE, US GOV]

Friday, May 15th, 2009

Excellent site provides both theoretical background and practical recommendation for the situation when you need to push limits of TCP links using regular OS and commodity hardware. Especially useful if you need to do it via long-haul fast TCP link,…

TigerVNC

Thursday, May 14th, 2009

likely to be a replacement for tightvnc (better performance )

Introducing NetBSD 5.0

Friday, May 8th, 2009

BSD 5.0 release presentation, includes benchmarks: F10 vs FreeBSD 7.x vs NetBSD 4.0 and 5.0 (also see http://lwn.net/Articles/330909/ )

http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~seclab/projects/torpig/torpig.pdf

Monday, May 4th, 2009

Interesting paper from UCSB with statistics provided by hijacking torpig bootnet for aprox. 10 days.

Home :: Xuheki Webmail

Friday, May 1st, 2009

new ajax imap webmail client

Bug 484667 – Dropping packets in bnx2 since 1.7.9 bnx2 version

Sunday, April 26th, 2009

issue with dropped packets on newer broadcomm ethernet cards, found in dell 1950III servers