December 2009
1 post
SICP in Texinfo Format →
MIT Press now distributes the second edition of the book Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP) in HTML format. Lytha Ayth converted the book to Texinfo format, so that the book can be viewed in Emacs. S/he apparently redrew all the figures using ASCII text characters, which is rather perverse.
November 2009
12 posts
Nmap 5.10BETA1 released →
First post-5.0 release
Minimalistic GET VPN Example →
From Petr at INE: GET VPN using only two routers.
vSphere Client on Windows 7 now supported →
Looks like vSphere 4.0 update 1 finally supports running the client on Win7 without an ugly DLL hack.
HandBrake 0.9.4 Released →
New version of Handbrake with 64-bit OS X support (for faster DVD rips, even on a 32-bit kernel).
Kindle Update Brings PDF, Landscape, and... →
New update brings most of the features of the DX to the classic Kindle. Very cool, but I still love the big screen on my DX for reading technical books.
“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man...”
– “Citizenship in a Republic,” — Theodore Roosevelt’s Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910
HighScalability.com - 10 eBay Secrets for Planet... →
Coverage and link to a presentation from one of Ebay’s senior architects on how they scale up to 89 million active users and 50TB of new data per day.
WebSequenceDiagrams.com - Create sequence diagrams... →
Eventbug →
Brings a new Events panel that lists all of the event handlers on the page grouped by event type. The panel also nicely integrates with other Firebug panels and allows to quickly find out, which HTML element is associated with specific event listener or see the Javascript source code.
Improving Code using Metric_fu →
metric_fu provides a bunch of great metric information, which can be very useful. But if you don’t know what parts of it are actionable it’s merely interesting instead of useful.
Cartographer.js – thematic mapping for Google Maps →
FireQuery →
A collection of Firebug enhancements for jQuery
October 2009
8 posts
Solaris Auditing (BSM) in the Real World
→
I don’t really use Solaris much, but this is a great article covering the BSM security auditing subsystem.
pigz - Parallel gzip →
A fully functional replacement for gzip that exploits multiple processors and multiple cores to the hilt when compressing data.
Scrivener →
A word processor and project management tool created specifically for writers of long texts such as novels and research papers.
Jeff Dean: Design Lessons and Advice from Building... →
Notes from Amazon’s James Hamilton on a talk by Google’s Jeff Dean. Google has some big infrastructure!
"High Performance at Massive Scale – Lessons... →
Video lecture from Facebook’s VP of Technology. Covers things at a fairly low level.
be9's acl9 at master - GitHub →
Another library for role-based authorization in Rails
Keyboard Shortcuts in MacOS 10.6 Expose
With all windows visible, Command-1 arranges by name.
Also with all windows visible, Command-2 arranges by application.
Tab switches to viewing all windows for one application, cycling through them.
Spacebar toggles Quick Look for a single application window.
Original tips from Tidbits
Encrypting Ephemeral Storage and EBS Volumes on... →
September 2009
13 posts
gist: 191209 - Forcing Capistrano to use SCP by... →
Overriding Task Commands - Capistrano →
Had to use this today to force SCP (instead of SFTP) uploads when using deploy_via :copy
What I did this week - EMC Integration →
A look at some of the EMC tools for VMware virtualization.
CCIE Blog » IOS Zone-Based Firewall Overview →
Good overview of ZBF from Joe at IPExpert. Geared towards the new R&S 4.0 exam, but a nice intro for CCIE Security as well.
NIN Tech Info (mostly from LITS)
NIN Dazzles With Lasers, LEDs and Stealth Screens (Wired)
Tour Profile: Nine Inch Nails (Mix Magazine)
Nine Lives (Live Design)
Nine Inch Nails: High Art (PDF) (Upstaging)
The System & Audio Team For The Latest Nine Inch Nails Concert Tour (Proaudioweb)
Apple - Logic Studio - In Action (Video) (Apple)
MomentFactory - NIN 2008 Tour - Making Of →
These are the guys that designed and built the interactive lighting and video effects for NIN’s “Lights in the Sky” tour.
How old is my (HP) server? →
Very useful chart showing the average and overall dates during which a particular HP server was sold.
Ruby on Rails 2.3.4: Security Fixes →
New version of Rails is out that fixes two security issues, plus around 100 other bugs from the BugMash.
Bootstrapping EC2 images as Puppet clients →
Using the “user-data” option in the Alestic and Canonical AWS images for Ubuntu to automatically setup puppet on launch.
alloy's passengerpane - GitHub →
Preference Pane for setting up new mod_passenger vhosts on OS X. Now works with Snow Leopard (albeit in 32-bit mode only, requiring a System Preferences relaunch).
iStat Menus, a Mac app by iSlayer →
Version 2.0 is out, which works with Snow Leopard.
MySQL PrefPane for Snow Leopard →
The current MySQL preference pane is not 64-bit compatible on Snow Leopard. This is a new preference pane that is compatible with both 64-bit and 32-bit Intel processors as well as 32-bit PowerPC processors.
August 2009
9 posts
The Past and the Future of the Cisco Nexus 1000V →
Interview with some of the original Cisco engineers behind the NX1000V virtual switch for vSphere.
Free Infoblox VMware® Download Replaces... →
Limited to 500 IP addresses and doesn’t seem to include any DNS/DHCP functionality, but a good introduction to Infoblox’s IPAM capabilities.
Arista Networks: vEOS - Virtualized Extensible... →
Looks like a worthy competitor to Cisco’s NX1000V virtual switch for vSphere.
VMware: Our position on hypervisor footprints,... →
Response from VMware to the latest virtualization FUD from Microsoft.
codahale's bcrypt-ruby at master - GitHub →
bcrypt-ruby is a Ruby binding for the OpenBSD bcrypt() password hashing algorithm, allowing you to easily store a secure hash of your users’ passwords.
Securing Passwords with Salt, Pepper and Rainbows →
Most web applications don’t take the chance to make their password storage more secure, which is a shame because it’s really not difficult.
Introducing SelectorGadget: point and click CSS... →
SelectorGadget is an open source bookmarklet that makes CSS selector generation and discovery on complicated sites a breeze.
CCIE Blog » PPPoE - A Closer Look
→
PPPoE is on the Service Provider lab blueprint but it has also been added to the v4 Routing and Switching lab blueprint. Here we look at a small scenario and do some debugging to gain some more insight into what exactly is going on.
Why writing a Windows compatible file server is... →
From Jeremy Allison, lead developer of SAMBA.
July 2009
9 posts
Joel Spolsky: The Day My Industry Died →
How Joel started Fog Creek back in the days of the Internet consulting boom.
Google Code Blog: Apollo 11 source code →
The source code for the Apollo 11 command module and lunar modules (the code that took us to the moon) have been open-sourced!
Red Hat makes KVM its Linux virtualization of... →
This is a bit old, but I was surprised to see that RedHat is moving away from Xen.
Skype 2.8 for Mac OS X →
Supports screen sharing, which will come in handy.
DocCD: Multicast Quick-Start Configuration Guide
→
This would have been useful for my CCIE R&S preparation a few months ago.
Riding Rails: Rails 2.3.3: Touching, faster JSON,... →
Bugfixes and a few new features.
Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac 12.2.0 Update →
247 download. Seems to be mostly focused on stability. Doesn’t include the new Exchange services for Entourage, though.