mdnormy

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by mdnormy 12y ago
One of the thing that always fascinate me with American film is how 'simple' a suburban house can be. You have 4 feet open windows and glass wall everywhere living in a neighborhood without any gate or security guard. That led me
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by mdnormy 12y ago
For the basic attack, 1) Webserver - Set threshold and block offending IP [1] 2) TCP/DNS/SYNC/SSL/HTTP - Get DDoS-filtered IP and create GRE tunnel back to your server. You can get one for less than $10 from OVH, BuyVM o
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by mdnormy 12y ago
> Ceph isn't ready for production DreamHost would beg to differ. They've been using it for their DreamObject[1] for few years. Granted that they have have better visibility earlier because Sage Weil, but I've seen Ceph dep
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by mdnormy 12y ago
The problem with deducting from one side of a story is you can't reach a definitive conclusion. For example if you read the first 4 paragraph, that is 'the essence' of most interviews. Assuming it is, what the interviewer is
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by mdnormy 12y ago
Most people can't watch video during work hour. We should always treat video as 'optional extra'. Case in point, technical support/call center and room where you're constantly 'monitored'(NASA control room
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by mdnormy 12y ago
> I've found that lately, it seems like Ubuntu requires less fiddling than osx or windows, especially with printers & scanners. I'd like to share that I have the same experience especially with 14.04. I work with huge array
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by mdnormy 12y ago
A friend amasses $200 bill overnight due to bad looping when experimenting with Lambda. This is all too common of a story now. Amazon should do something other than goodwill refund.
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by mdnormy 12y ago
> ..retaining IPs.. I noticed since few month back, if you destroy your droplet and create fresh droplet even after few days, you will get the same IP. Only in same DC though. Maybe some sort of temporary policy while they're workin
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by mdnormy 12y ago
Not really. SmartOS is an "operating system". The way it designed to decoupled may give the illusion of Docker alternative, but it certainly doesn't serve the main purpose of docker which is to only prepackaged dependencies&#
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by mdnormy 12y ago
Xiaomi is the next big thing. They've done most things right, yet people don't take them seriously yet, because "Apple-copycat". For a start, I think they'll hire few more high profile people from prominent SV compa
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by mdnormy 12y ago
> Can you really use the S3 API to spin up EC2 instances? No. My guess would be credential with allow:* service access.
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by mdnormy 12y ago
Then maybe you would prefer something like micropreneur where the mantra is "start small stay small". I myself have small food business and also hosting business. Nothing fancy that HNer would be interested in, but its a nice side
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by mdnormy 12y ago
I just noticed that free training session seems to be limited to certain location sold by "Amazon Web Services". For example Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok are free, but other location have varying fees. I attended 2 free session in Kua
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by mdnormy 12y ago
PSA If you're running AWS, I highly recommend for all developers and sysadmin to attend AWS free training[0][1]. While you're at it might as well get yourself certified[2]. You might have senior expertise with system operation and
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by mdnormy 12y ago
I came from sysadmin background and regularly have to compare AWS, Azure & GAE. My company is PHP shop which use only IaaS & PaaS. Basically nothing beats AWS on IaaS and Azure seems to be the best for PaaS. I'm comparing in te