HerraBRE

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by HerraBRE 16y ago
I wrote and use this: http://yamon.klaki.net/ I wanted something as minimal as possible which still knew how to do dependencies. It's mostly a black-box monitoring tool, but it has a white-box component as well and can dump info to rrdtoo
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by HerraBRE 16y ago
I think it could be useful to encrypt the same report to multiple recipients - just generate multiple pass.enc files. This allows the researcher to publicly send the same report to multiple vendors (and it will verifiably be the same report
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by HerraBRE 16y ago
Are you at all interested in what's going on outside the U.S. ?
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by HerraBRE 16y ago
The world is a pretty big place. There's room for more than one café. :-)
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by HerraBRE 16y ago
PageKite can be used for similar tricks: http://pagekite.net/wiki/Floss/TechnicalManual/#ipr and http://pagekite.net/wiki/Howto/SshOverPageKite/
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by HerraBRE 16y ago
I automate as much as I can. Sometimes I'll even "automate" a one-off task, simply because writing steps down in a shell script makes it easier to review what is about to happen and avoid trashing, say, a big chunk of my digital photo album
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by HerraBRE 16y ago
I wrote a proof-of-concept which does something quite similar on Android: http://pagekite.net/wiki/Howto/GNULinux/AndroidPageKite/ It is just a proof of concept, because like author of the article said, it's not immediately obvious how to
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by HerraBRE 16y ago
Are you a developer? Most of the pieces exist as open source (assuming VNC is good enough for you), wrapping a nice GUI around them using something like wxPython might not be to hard. It's an interesting idea for sure. I've been fiddling ar
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by HerraBRE 16y ago
Oh, and one other way to control risk, which we tend to forget in a world of always-on cloud services: you can turn it off when you aren't using it. It's blunt, but it really works. Software that isn't running can't be attacked.
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by HerraBRE 16y ago
Your personal IP address is not exposed, so you "only" have to worry about the security of the HTTP server itself. How good or bad that is depends on what you are doing. For someone demoing static files (e.g. a web designer), running a mat
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by HerraBRE 16y ago
Any vserver will do, I use Linode for my production stuff, they are excellent. If you don't want to spend time on server configuration and deployments yet, you could also use http://pagekite.net/ to just directly expose the HTTP server ru
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by HerraBRE 16y ago
I totally agree with this. We've been in a firewalled world of NAT pain for so long that developers have largely forgotten how to think outside the client/server box it has imposed on us. I feel this acutely every time I try and spread the
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by HerraBRE 16y ago
Check out http://pagekite.net/ , that's my startup and a FOSS project where I am working very hard to accomplish exactly that. People should be able to run servers on any device. What exactly they will use it for is a mere matter of innov
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by HerraBRE 16y ago
It was in the slides, but for those who are too lazy to go through them all: install Certificate Patrol if you are using Firefox. It adds TOFU/POP style behavior to Firefox and really should be a default feature of all browsers.
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by HerraBRE 16y ago
There is a difference between basing your business on commodity offerings (say, Linux vservers) where there is active competition, and basing your business on a walled garden of harder to replace services (say, Appengine, or S3, or Twitter
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by HerraBRE 16y ago
I think it's silly to make claims about Diaspora having failed, when the project is still in its infancy. These things take time. The Diaspora effect isn't just about Diaspora - it's about all the other projects like it and the fact that t
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by HerraBRE 16y ago
Hey, really glad you like it! Sorry I missed you on IRC (timezones, etc.), stop by again sometime.
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by HerraBRE 16y ago
Following up to myself... using a plug computer and something like http://pagekite.net/ , you could make this a plug-and-play product which works with any consumer Internet connection. Remote support will be relatively easy, as the produc
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by HerraBRE 16y ago
Why not give the store a simple web-server with a menu, and then let people browse and order drinks and food using their own smartphones? Then you can do things like collect ratings and complaints and such on the same interface (not necess
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by HerraBRE 16y ago
Just to answer here as well (I'll be in touch), the easiest pitch is to content creators who want to remove the "deploy stuff to some server in order to show progress to clients and coworkers" step from their work flow. Obviously, this is m
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by HerraBRE 16y ago
The code behind http://pagekite.net/ is probably around 50k lines of code right now. And growing every day... :-)
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by HerraBRE 16y ago
Thanks for the comment! We actually already do offer free trials, but identifying and reaching out to partners is something we have yet to make progress on.
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by HerraBRE 16y ago
Sure, this doesn't replace traditional hosting unless you are really big on the privacy thing and want all your data on your own hardware. But it's pretty useful if you are designing websites or writing web-related software and want to be a
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Show HN: How to host a live website on your laptop (or anywhere else)(pagekite.net)
3 points by HerraBRE 16y ago|2 comments
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by HerraBRE 16y ago
I am actually already offering a very similar service, although it is optimized for a somewhat different use case. The service is here: http://pagekite.net/ It's useful for all kinds of things. :-)
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by HerraBRE 16y ago
Hmm, clickable link, I hope: http://pagekite.net/
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Ask HN: How would you market PageKite, my "run web servers anywhere" service?
9 points by HerraBRE 16y ago|5 comments
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by HerraBRE 16y ago
This is really good advice. I took a job for the big G a few years back, and although I don't regret doing so (it was a fantastic learning experience), I was never really happy in the role they had chosen for me. Once you're in, it can be s
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by HerraBRE 16y ago
Reading that it seemed as if OM considers it a given that cloud computing is automatically "better" and squishy humans are just getting in the way of progress. Cloud computing is in many ways more efficient, but that's really not the only m
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by HerraBRE 16y ago
I set myself such goals a few years back, at the behest of my employer. As soon as I had quit that job and found something to do that I actually enjoyed, I stopped bothering... :-P Mostly kidding. Turns out, the thing I decided to do (start

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