mattbee

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by mattbee 13y ago
http://forum.bytemark.co.uk/category/outage-notifications - every single one of Bytemark's outages since June 2004. It's a great sales tool, at least when someone asks "so how reliable are you?".
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by mattbee 13y ago
Thanks dude, working on it and I'm really happy with the core after two years of building and testing. We've just finished building our own data centre, a nice steady influx of customers are buoying us up, and we recently hired t
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by mattbee 13y ago
Hey Evan, as with Rubyforge the last 7-odd years, you'd be welcome to a free account on Bytemark's UK cloud platform bigv.io, or dedicated servers, or a mix on the same VLAN. We're a Ruby shop ourselves, and we host a fair c
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by mattbee 13y ago
As a business owner & pre 1.0 Rails adopter, I completely agree. It's never been the goal of Rails to support programmers who need long, conservative development cycles. Improvements get that much harder that much more quickly. Ha
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by mattbee 13y ago
A desktop system with a novel thermal design is being packed in tightly in a way that the manufacturer probably hasn't tested, and in a way that's going to be hard to diagnose or fix? He who dares I guess :) What do people use ho
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by mattbee 13y ago
ARM was my start with assembler too. But you appear to a have forgotten there are 5 more registers you can use for that blit ;-)
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by mattbee 13y ago
In their dog days they are now giving away the pro version of Winamp, which does CD ripping, removes ads and has a few other features. i.e. the link to the Free version is now the Pro version. I was another pretty recent convert to Winamp
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Bytemark suffered a denial-of-service attack, 2300-0000(forum.bytemark.co.uk)
1 points by mattbee 13y ago|0 comments
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by mattbee 13y ago
I disagree - Bytemark have been in business nearly 12 years, thousands of interesting clients, no difficult ones that I've not turned around to my way of thinking :-) We've just built our own data centre ( http://blog.by
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by mattbee 13y ago
This article is pretty dim, for all the reasons people said. But also - the guy is trying to rewind time on a dice roll. And Nintendo is the one cheating _him_?
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by mattbee 13y ago
BigV has been running since 2011, it's only months younger, but built on expertise from our old VM platform that's 10 years older. Xen and KVM both drew from the same code, i.e. qemu, but qemu now has all the important patches fro
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How Bytemark will deal with secret network taps(forum.bytemark.co.uk)
2 points by mattbee 13y ago|3 comments
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by mattbee 13y ago
Why is your own web site on DigitalOcean in the Netherlands then? :)
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by mattbee 13y ago
A bit. It was more of a postscript.
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by mattbee 13y ago
Though http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/aug/02/gchq-accused-... suggests you're not a million miles away from the NSA's taps in the UK! You can always ask us if we have government spies
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by mattbee 13y ago
We've just taken the beta wrappers off http://bigv.io/ after two years (we've been in business for 11). It's hosted in Manchester, UK - £10 / month for 1GB RAM, scale to 180GB, real actual humans on the
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by mattbee 13y ago
I've just added my hosting company - we're a little outside London though (York).
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by mattbee 13y ago
York, United Kingdom - Bytemark Hosting are looking for two people: Sales Director ( http://www.bytemark.co.uk/sales_director - £60000) Head Of External Communications ( http://www.bytemark.co.uk/external_comms - £25000-40000) Both of who
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by mattbee 14y ago
We have deployed ZFS for the last few years on some large backup servers (Solaris and FreeBSD) and our experience has been pretty rotten - the command line is slow at managing a few hundred volumes, it becomes unusable during a rebuild, and
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by mattbee 14y ago
I don't think there is some new insight in his letter, though I agree the message is clear, and his decision made. But lots of 15 year olds think school is boring and pointless, or think they can do anything based on the tiniest success. L
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by mattbee 14y ago
Wow. It's definitely a goofy, pompous, rambling letter written by someone who doesn't know what he doesn't know yet. But assuming the business is profitable, there's zero chance that you or his parents can stop him from pursuing it at this
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by mattbee 14y ago
Wow, and I thought Disk Utility was only a piece of shit for hiding partitions from me :-) We've had at least one dispute with a customer who didn't get the "advertised" storage space when buying hosting - it's easy to you say this server h
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by mattbee 14y ago
Nice. I just put York on the map :-) (cough - http://blog.bytemark.co.uk/2013/02/05/bytemark-to-get-their-... ) Come on York.
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by mattbee 14y ago
An excellent, cheap plan if you've never set up samba etc. before. To those rolling their eyes at a "toy" solution (and it's better than that), when you _do_ need a bit more performance and more discs I'd highly recommend one of these htt
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by mattbee 14y ago
I don't see why YAML is a dangerous serialization format - the other type deserializations in the code seem sane and limited enough. (I wouldn't use YAML over e.g. JSON these days but I'm fixing up quite old projects)
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by mattbee 14y ago
How doesn't it? irb(main):001:0> YAML::parse("!ruby/object:File 123").transform => #<File:0x7f2427848e68> irb(main):002:0> module YAML; @@tagged_classes.delete('tag:ruby.yaml.org,2002:object'); end => Obje
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by mattbee 14y ago
It's meant to partially break YAML deserialization :) My apps do care about YAML, so I've an interest in cleaning this up. Is there some unintended consequence? You can still instantiate some Ruby classes (Regexp, Symbol etc.) in the YAM
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by mattbee 14y ago
Hmm, looking around I am thinking that if you don't want random object instantiation, this monkey-patch: module YAML; @@tagged_classes.delete('tag:ruby.yaml.org,2002:object'); end makes user-supplied YAML a lot less dangerous. I am
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by mattbee 14y ago
Thanks Kevin - I am _this_ close to flushing our beta list of invitations for BigV after an 18 month beta test. Sorry if you've been waiting, I'm nearly there :) See http://bigv.io/prices and email support@bigv.io if you'd like a signup
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by mattbee 14y ago
"grammar nazi's"? That's pretty much how you summon them :-) I liked the response too, it's a lovely bunch here.

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