This is a “tumble blog”: various interesting links, quotes, photos, and other randomness pulled off the Internet by Brian Landers.Tumblr (3.0; @packetslave)http://packetslave.tumblr.com/<a href="http://highscalability.com/blog/2009/11/17/10-ebay-secrets-for-planet-wide-scaling.html">HighScalability.com - 10 eBay Secrets for Planet Wide Scaling</a>: <p>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.</p>http://packetslave.tumblr.com/post/249903418http://packetslave.tumblr.com/post/249903418Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:40:24 -0500<a href="http://www.websequencediagrams.com/">WebSequenceDiagrams.com - Create sequence diagrams in seconds </a>http://packetslave.tumblr.com/post/231836614http://packetslave.tumblr.com/post/231836614Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:34:00 -0500<a href="http://www.softwareishard.com/blog/firebug/eventbug-alpha-released/">Eventbug</a>: <p>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.</p>http://packetslave.tumblr.com/post/231836391http://packetslave.tumblr.com/post/231836391Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:33:45 -0500<a href="http://devver.net/blog/2009/10/improving-code-using-metric-fu/">Improving Code using Metric_fu</a>: <p>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.</p>http://packetslave.tumblr.com/post/231836023http://packetslave.tumblr.com/post/231836023Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:33:10 -0500<a href="http://cartographer.visualmotive.com/">Cartographer.js – thematic mapping for Google Maps</a>http://packetslave.tumblr.com/post/231835699http://packetslave.tumblr.com/post/231835699Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:32:40 -0500<a href="http://firequery.binaryage.com/">FireQuery</a>: <p>A collection of Firebug enhancements for jQuery</p>http://packetslave.tumblr.com/post/231835585http://packetslave.tumblr.com/post/231835585Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:32:28 -0500<a href="http://cuddletech.com/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=1081">Solaris Auditing (BSM) in the Real World </a>: <p>I don’t really use Solaris much, but this is a great article covering the BSM security auditing subsystem.</p>http://packetslave.tumblr.com/post/216465125http://packetslave.tumblr.com/post/216465125Sun, 18 Oct 2009 14:16:59 -0400<a href="http://www.zlib.net/pigz/">pigz - Parallel gzip</a>: <p>A fully functional replacement for gzip that exploits multiple processors and multiple cores to the hilt when compressing data.</p>http://packetslave.tumblr.com/post/216464500http://packetslave.tumblr.com/post/216464500Sun, 18 Oct 2009 14:16:06 -0400<a href="http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.html">Scrivener</a>: <p>A word processor and project management tool created specifically for writers of long texts such as novels and research papers.</p>http://packetslave.tumblr.com/post/216462733http://packetslave.tumblr.com/post/216462733Sun, 18 Oct 2009 14:13:35 -0400<a href="http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2009/10/17/JeffDeanDesignLessonsAndAdviceFromBuildingLargeScaleDistributedSystems.aspx">Jeff Dean: Design Lessons and Advice from Building Large Scale Distributed Systems</a>: <p>Notes from Amazon’s James Hamilton on a talk by Google’s Jeff Dean.  Google has some <b>big</b> infrastructure!</p>http://packetslave.tumblr.com/post/216462339http://packetslave.tumblr.com/post/216462339Sun, 18 Oct 2009 14:12:59 -0400<a href="http://cns.ucsd.edu/lecturearchive09.shtml#Roth">"High Performance at Massive Scale – Lessons learned at Facebook"</a>: <p>Video lecture from Facebook’s VP of Technology.  Covers things at a fairly low level.</p>http://packetslave.tumblr.com/post/211987057http://packetslave.tumblr.com/post/211987057Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:08:53 -0400<a href="http://github.com/be9/acl9">be9's acl9 at master - GitHub</a>: <p>Another library for role-based authorization in Rails</p>http://packetslave.tumblr.com/post/211986573http://packetslave.tumblr.com/post/211986573Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:08:11 -0400<p><ul class="list"> <li class="list">With all windows visible, Command-1 arranges by name.</li> <li class="list">Also with all windows visible, Command-2 arranges by application.</li> <li class="list">Tab switches to viewing all windows for one application, cycling through them.</li> <li class="list">Spacebar toggles Quick Look for a single application window.</li> </ul> <i>Original tips from <a href="http://db.tidbits.com/article/10507">Tidbits</a></i></p>http://packetslave.tumblr.com/post/211973753http://packetslave.tumblr.com/post/211973753Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:45:00 -0400<a href="http://alestic.com/2009/10/ec2-disk-encryption">Encrypting Ephemeral Storage and EBS Volumes on Amazon EC2 - Alestic.com</a>http://packetslave.tumblr.com/post/207936405http://packetslave.tumblr.com/post/207936405Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:51:20 -0400<a href="http://gist.github.com/191209">gist: 191209 - Forcing Capistrano to use SCP by default instead of SFTP</a>http://packetslave.tumblr.com/post/194248059http://packetslave.tumblr.com/post/194248059Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:23:44 -0400<a href="http://www.capify.org/index.php/OverridingTaskCommands">Overriding Task Commands - Capistrano</a>: <p>Had to use this today to force SCP (instead of SFTP) uploads when using deploy_via :copy</p>http://packetslave.tumblr.com/post/194245406http://packetslave.tumblr.com/post/194245406Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:19:09 -0400<a href="http://www.rtfm-ed.co.uk/?p=1799">What I did this week - EMC Integration</a>: <p>A look at some of the EMC tools for VMware virtualization.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></p>http://packetslave.tumblr.com/post/193352936http://packetslave.tumblr.com/post/193352936Mon, 21 Sep 2009 09:47:23 -0400<a href="http://ipexpert.ccieblog.com/2009/09/20/ios-zone-based-firewall-overview-for-ccie-routing-and-switching-40-candidates/"> CCIE Blog » IOS Zone-Based Firewall Overview</a>: <p>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.</p>http://packetslave.tumblr.com/post/193346356http://packetslave.tumblr.com/post/193346356Mon, 21 Sep 2009 09:34:13 -0400<p><ul class="list"> <li> <a href="http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/news/2008/09/nin_show?currentPage=all">NIN Dazzles With Lasers, LEDs and Stealth Screens</a> (Wired)</li> <li> <a href="http://mixonline.com/live/tourprofiles/tour-profile-nine-inch-nails/">Tour Profile: Nine Inch Nails</a> (Mix Magazine)</li> <li> <a href="http://livedesignonline.com/concerts/nine_lives_1008/">Nine Lives</a> (Live Design)</li> <li> <a href="http://www.upstaging.com/documents/MP-NIN10_08.pdf">Nine Inch Nails: High Art (PDF)</a> (Upstaging) </li> <li> <a href="http://www.prosoundweb.com/article/profiling_the_system_audio_team_for_the_latest_nine_inch_nails_concert_tour/articles/P1/">The System & Audio Team For The Latest Nine Inch Nails Concert Tour</a> (Proaudioweb)</li> <li> <a href="http://www.apple.com/logicstudio/in-action/">Apple - Logic Studio - In Action (Video)</a> (Apple)</li> </ul></p>http://packetslave.tumblr.com/post/185941979http://packetslave.tumblr.com/post/185941979Sat, 12 Sep 2009 03:10:00 -0400<img src="http://13.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kptucxlSDX1qz4y9eo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>For no particular reason…</p>http://packetslave.tumblr.com/post/185599253http://packetslave.tumblr.com/post/185599253Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:58:07 -0400