Archive for the 'for:collidr' Category

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

[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

Александр Лаврентьев. Художественная фотография | Alexandr Lavrentyev – Spb Photos

Monday, April 12th, 2010

creative pictures of Spb, B/W

robtex- swiss army knife internet network information tool

Thursday, March 18th, 2010

websites that provides a lot of useful info, like RBL (Relay Black Lists ), DNS, AS, BGP, etc

Running 10M nodes linxu network for malware research /Security [LWN.net] artcile /

Friday, March 12th, 2010

Article covers SCALE8x presentation from Ronald Minnich /Scandia Nat. Labs/ about issues involved running large scale networks [ >10M nodes ] . Article contains a lot of useful links, recommended reading.

Videos | www.bigbluebutton.org

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

opensource web-conferencing software, something like GoToMeeting, allows sharing voice, video, presentation and desktop

ArgentumInvoice: Free, Open Source, Online Project Management & Invoicing Software

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

open source client-management and invoicing software

The Twitter Engineering Blog

Friday, February 19th, 2010

all sorts of system and software engineering info from Twitter. Also see http://twitter.com/about/opensource