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Clock skew is the new TCP flag 11 Apr 2011 | 12:18 pm
The surprise in my eyes when I read through the papers about how "clock skew" can be used to fingerprint and identify hidden servers, was similar to the surprise I had when I read about nmap and OS fi...
Humans are the most insecure device attached to computers.. 4 Apr 2011 | 11:25 am
The attack on RSA made me realize that an old joke needs to be updated. The one about "whats the most secure computer" Old Answer: "A computer which is disconnected from the internet, unpowered, buri...
Humans are the most insecure device attached to computers.. 4 Apr 2011 | 07:25 am
The attack on RSA made me realize that an old joke needs to be updated. The one about "whats the most secure computer" Old Answer: "A computer which is disconnected from the internet, unpowered, buri...
Scalability and performance – Its all about the customers 3 Apr 2011 | 04:29 am
Todd pinged me to see how I felt about antirez’s suggession in his post titled “On the webserver scalability and speed are almost the same thing“. While I disagree with parts of the post, I can unders...
GPS for tracking smaller objects can now be found in costco ? 30 Jan 2011 | 01:22 pm
Updated: Was fascinated when I found this pallet at costco. Look closely at the words "iGPS"... I assumed that it had GPS based technology embedded in it, but realized its just another RFID enabled pa...
CR48/ChromeOS - From browser sandbox to browser-in-a-hardware sandbox 22 Jan 2011 | 04:09 am
I finally got a Cr48 to play with. After being a linux sysadmin for the better part last decade, I tried to do what every honest sysadmin would try. To root it. I couldn't even get a bash prompt. Ctrl...
Scalability links for January 19th 20 Jan 2011 | 01:35 pm
Scalability links for January 19th: Optimizing TCP Socket Across Data Centers – Intersting observation of why bandwidth sometime hits a ceiling. Also explains why organizatinos need CDNs and local da...
Beanstalk, Gogrid and HBase 20 Jan 2011 | 10:15 am
Top 3 News items from scalebig The big news is that Amazon has got into PAAS big time. I predicted it only a couple of days ago ( I said they will launch within next 1 year ). With beanstalk they pla...
Risks of automated stock prediction engines 19 Jan 2011 | 03:00 am
A celebrety tweeted about a stock tip to his 3 million followers. By the end of the day the stock price jumped over 290%. "You can double your money right now. Just get what you can afford," Jackson ...
Its Logical - IAAS users will move to PAAS 18 Jan 2011 | 06:39 am
Sysadmins love infrastructure control, and I have to say that there was a time when root access gave me a high. It wasn’t until I moved to web operations team (and gave up my root access) that I real...
