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What the #@!$ Is a Cloud?
Posted on October 4, 2009 | 3 CommentsLarry Ellison, the somewhat eccentric CEO of Oracle, has long been on my short list of “if there really are super villains, they are certainly one of them”. But funny as well as insightful? I never really considered that possibility. And yet here is an... -
Quick and Dirty Performance Testing With Apache Bench
Posted on February 5, 2009 | No CommentsIf you need a quick and dirty way to throw some load onto a load balancer/ADC or web server, Apache comes with a great tool called Apache Bench. Since it’s an HTTP client, it will of course work with any server, not just Apache-based servers.... -
SSLification
Posted on August 19, 2008 | No CommentsI saw this on Slashdot today, where a bunch of hackers developed a tool for stealing session IDs in Gmail. By default, gmail authentication is encrypted, but the rest of your session is not. In the requests that you send to gmail is included a... -
Alteon and AMC Pacer: Beloved, Odd Looking
Posted on August 8, 2008 | No CommentsI was on a run in my new home of Portland, Oregon when I came upon an AMC Pacer parked on the street. And I thought, how like the old Alteons the AMC Pacer is. They’re both rather odd looking, and have a rather fanatical... -
Wikipedia Super Site Setup
Posted on June 24, 2008 | No CommentsI tend to separate out infrastructures into two different beasts: A site, and a super-site. Super-sites get tremendous amounts of traffic (1 Gigabit+) and typically are associated with a brand, such as Amazon.com, Google.com, or what have you. On Slashdot today was a posting about...