Ceph: The Distributed File System Creature from the Object Lagoon | Linux Magazine
April 20th, 2010
detailed article about CEPTH -- [client] parts of Cepth were recently accepted into the mainline linux kernel
Reliable Linux backups: How to backup Linux, BSD and other Unix-like systems properly
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 recovery, check sums, etc. )
Distributed Hash Tables Links
April 19th, 2010
collection of links to notes and papers about DHT [Distributed Hash Tables] implementation and various related topics.
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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]
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
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
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
April 14th, 2010
flex still connectors
[Flash Player P2P Propriotary P2P Media Delivery Protocol called ] RTMFP Overview
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 the nodes. It is not clear if C&C structure is distributed.
[ENG ]Xen vs. KVM security architecture comparison [from forum.opennet.ru - "Qubes - новая безопасная операционная система на базе Linux ..."]
April 13th, 2010
Notes (exert) from Joanna Rutkowska recent paper comparing KVN and XEN architectures from security and design standpoint
