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letter from poland

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mariusz pilis – letter from poland : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_c6bqHONRMc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iK2LQ5quSM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0u68eXju_2A http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp-jmpBLht4 mariusz pilis – list z polski [ polskie napisy ]: https://vimeo.com/17753419

[pl] Kursk – w mÄ™tnych wodach

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFCJX0ayUcE – pierwszorzÄ™dni specjaliĹ›ci prowadzÄ… Ĺ›ledztwo dot. zatoniÄ™cia okrÄ™tu podwodnego Kursk

pingy sites

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mostly to save myself time googling those again: checking latency to your host from multiple locations around the world: https://ping.pe/ http://lowendping.nikkii.us/ http://www.just-ping.com/index.php?vh=kudzia.eu http://www.bgp4.as/looking-glasses https://www.site24x7.com/ping-test.html http://ping.ms/ https://tools.keycdn.com/ipv6-ping https://tools.keycdn.com/ping https://www.hostvirtual.com/lg/ https://mtr.sh/ map of the transocean fibers can come handy as well: http://www.submarinecablemap.com/ http://www.cablemap.info/ checking the page load performance time from multiple locations: http://www.webpagetest.org/ http://www.watchmouse.com/en/checkit.php testing dns: https://www.dnsinspect.com/ ... Read More

fiddle sites

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cool online tools for quickly running js / sql code http://sqlfiddle.com/ http://jsfiddle.com/

HOPE09

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http://www.hopenumbernine.net/schedule/ talks i found to be most interesting: Manufacturing Modern Computer Chips – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGFhc8R_uO4 Twitter Revolution Meets Surveillance State: Now What – http://www.hopenumbernine.net/schedule/#twitter IPv6 Now! What Does This Mean? – http://www.hopenumbernine.net/schedule/#ipv6 Keynote Address – William Binney – mass surveillance in us, political and technical part – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqN59beaFMI privacy a postmorten – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NObTjstI6f4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6B5kgBNL74 I’m Not ... Read More

the code

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some pop math from bbc – the code: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUp5ciynQzk [last ~15 min are missing] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lov-AjxA7kI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnI2yR1Nh5Y

[pl] 20 rocznica “nocnej zmiany”

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Wyszkowski, Cenckiewicz o 4tym czerwca 1992 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vb5t_Q6mCZ4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ij6dLKvUc_U http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0Djx4sg_ss http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gaPvyFtEAo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JsDCExwum8
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agentless monitoring of linux servers from ossec

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we’ve been poking around ossec for a while. it’s nice and all but… i never liked the idea of opening additional ports on the production server or letting it ‘call home’ with alerts to the central monitoring machine. i prefer ‘polling’ model where central server communicates with monitoring nodes. ideally all should be done via ... Read More

poor man’s vm clonning under vsphere 5 without downtime

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how to clone a virtual machine under vmware vsphere 5: using the vsphere client create a new vm with similar parameters [at least the same number and size of hard drives] using the vsphere client create a snapshot of the original vm log in via ssh as root [ to enable the ssh access check ... Read More

status anxiety

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status anxiety – socialistic sentiments aside an interesting document: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_acgqf27CIU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFab92rIHRY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThXcAko2KJ8

excel 2010 displays garbage when opening xls documents from the web

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while migrating few dozens of users to new desktops with the new office 2010 i’ve encountered a problem: when users open xls [saved in the excel 97-2003 format] directly from the web browser and allow editing excel displays garbage. amount of garbage depends but sometimes it makes the spreadsheet completely unusable. things get even worse ... Read More

gtd

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i like gtd, i’ve heard first time about the idea around 2006. since then i use some tiny-little-miniature form of it on daily basis; it boils down to writing things down, using reminders, tasks and todo lists. in other words – having OCD / being anal. i still manage to miss things, but in general ... Read More

higher TCP ICW – real world tests

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this post inspired me to check how much performance can we gain by just upgrading to more recent kernel on the internet-facing proxy servers at work.

[pl] petelicki

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dobre podsumowanie serji brutalnych samobojstw tutaj. a lemingi w najlepsze griluja cieszac sie co tym co im mainstream podrzuci. ciekawe komentarze na stronie michalkiewicza. + dla przeciwwagi – confirmation bias aka efekt potwierdzenia.

asia trip 2/4 – singapore

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after 10 days in Hong Kong my next stop was Singapore. i had 2.5days to use for some meetings and sightseeing.

asia trip 1/4 – hong kong

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i’ve spent last month in Asia – Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand and Philippines. totally new experience in many ways.