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This is now on the wiki.

Changes are: Removed references to the FAQ and the M2MP protocol. Added explanations on how to handle the deployment of multiple versions. Added a quick note on how to use the jazzlib library for gzip compression. The TC65Dev now is on the wiki.

I have a bad addictions to movies. I keep watching them even if most of them just look alike. Here are some (recent) movies that I found uncommonly great: Perfect sense Youth in revolt Lars and the real girl Jesus henry christ

The world is full of good surprises, and TINC is definitely one of them. Are you running a distributed system across multiple datacenters? Perhaps you’re using Cassandra or another distributed database? TINC is the networking solution you’ve been looking for. TINC creates a secure, decentralized virtual private network that automatically establishes a fully meshed topology between your nodes. What makes TINC stand out: Zero single points of failure Automatic mesh routing around NAT and firewalls Military-grade encryption Remarkably simple setup I followed these setup instructions and was impressed by how smoothly everything worked - no debugging or log diving required. For anyone managing distributed systems, TINC is a game-changer. ...

This has moved to the javacint wiki

Update 2012-03-25: It turns out, it’s just some object oriented C: Kaspersky Lab experts now say with a high degree of certainty that the Duqu framework was written using a custom object-oriented extension to C, generally called “OO C” and compiled with Microsoft Visual Studio Compiler 2008 (MSVC 2008) with special options for optimizing code size and inline expansion. Source If you missed it in the news, you should definitely read this: The Mystery of the Duqu Framework. ...

I’m a huge fan of all the cloud technologies. I’ve been working on a M2M project on top of cassandra and I can really say I love this distributed database. I’d like to give my feedback on this great database. Easy management Cassandra doesn’t require any kind of manual management for complex operations like sharding data accross node restore a crashed server or put a new or a previous disconnected node back into the cluster. You just have to tell the nodes to join the cluster and watch him do all the work. ...

Je suis passé chez free mobile. Ce n’est pas vraiment le fait que j’économise 55% du prix de mon forfait actuel qui m’a motivé mais plutôt l’idée que je n’aurai plus (jamais) à surveiller ma consommation et que je n’aurai pas à prendre un téléphone fixe et recopier à la main (trop ringard) des numéros de téléphone à l’avenir. Ma mère, elle, ne passera pas chez free mobile car elle serait peinée de participer au licenciement de milliers de télé-commerciaux chez les opérateurs de téléphonie mobile concurrents. ...

On my spare time, I manage a handful of servers. And even if it’s not really my job, I try to do it well and efficiently. All of them work on Debian because it’s simple to manage. I started using cron-apt a few years ago. I started by upgrading everything automatically, this was a big mistake. I switched to only sending mails on available upgrades and doing the upgrade manually. But this is also quite painful because 95% of the time, it consists in typing “apt-get dist-upgrade -y” and waiting and I have lots more interestings things to do. ...

I’ve been testing btrfs for some months now. One of the most interesting features of this file-system is its snapshoting capabilities. Before that I was using rsnapshot. The issue with rsnapshot is that its lowest atomic level for snapshotting is the files themselves using hard-links. So any database table where one row is changed is copied completely. Btrfs as you might guess will only copy the modified chunks (I don’t know the atomicity of them [but who cares?]). ...