Archive for the 'Computers' Category
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…
Posted in design, engineering, for:charlesnw, for:collidr, management, reference, reliability, science, Security | Comments Off | permalink
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
Posted in blog, compliance, disaster, for:charlesnw, for:collidr, infosec, Security | Comments Off | permalink
Wednesday, May 20th, 2009
some notes about keep-alive proxy setup for apache
Posted in apache, front-end, keep-alive, Linux, loadbalancing, nginx, proxy, sysadmin | Comments Off | permalink
Wednesday, May 20th, 2009
post on nginx forum that provides some insights about central logging / log collections
Posted in Linux, log, logging, monitoring, nginx, rsyslong, sysadmin, syslog, syslog-ng, system, web | Comments Off | permalink
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,…
Posted in for:charlesnw, for:collidr, freebsd, howto, Linux, network, networking, optimization, osx, performance, solaris, sysadmin, system, tcp, tcpip, tuning, windows | Comments Off | permalink
Thursday, May 14th, 2009
likely to be a replacement for tightvnc (better performance )
Posted in for:collidr, Linux, RDP, remote_desktop, sysadmin, tightvnc, tools, VNC, windows | Comments Off | permalink
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/ )
Posted in benchmark, Fedora, for:charlesnw, for:collidr, freebsd, Linux, netbsd, performance, sysadmin | Comments Off | permalink
Monday, May 4th, 2009
Interesting paper from UCSB with statistics provided by hijacking torpig bootnet for aprox. 10 days.
Posted in botnet, Computers, for:collidr, Security | Comments Off | permalink
Friday, May 1st, 2009
new ajax imap webmail client
Posted in client, for:collidr, imap, mail, opensource, Perl, Postmaster, web, webmail | Comments Off | permalink
Sunday, April 26th, 2009
issue with dropped packets on newer broadcomm ethernet cards, found in dell 1950III servers
Posted in 1950, bnx, broadcomm, dell, kernel, Linux, network, sysadmin, system | Comments Off | permalink