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
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
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
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
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
while poking around brand new installation of free edition of vmware vsphere 5 i managed to screw up the firewall. in result any changes done in vshpere client in configuration>security profile>firewall properties were resulting with errors: i’ve found a solution here. to get rid of errors from gui i had to: ssh to the vsphare ... Read More
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
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
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.