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by nixgeek 13y ago
That's not necessarily a good analogy since you're talking about a COW (copy-on-write) situation, not always, granted, but in this case it seems true. DigitalOcean admitted that in some cases they are using qcow, so I wouldn'
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by nixgeek 13y ago
Physical server or virtual server? In the latter case (virtual servers, or containers) you have almost no real guarantees that shred(1) or friends will be effective, because you likely have no idea how the provider is implementing storage u
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by nixgeek 13y ago
I suspect he's waiting for the $1B+ exit so he can buy his own island complete with secret volcano lair, and that any attempts to hire him would be unsuccessful.
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by nixgeek 13y ago
It's actually impossible to delete the snapshot as a single operation, first you have to 'Restore' it. Oh the irony. The entire motivation behind this submission was to be educational and informative: the fact is you either n
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by nixgeek 13y ago
I didn't ask them to make a template from an instance which I wanted to be securely, irrecoverably destroyed and one of the key lines of explanation for this entire issue by DigitalOcean was to allow customers to undo mistakes which to
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by nixgeek 13y ago
The issue I have with your statement is that whilst you are likely entirely correct, it was not the expectation defined by DigitalOcean when they built the interface. The interface clearly states: "This is irreversible. We will destroy
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by nixgeek 13y ago
Also putting the word out via Twitter: https://twitter.com/nixgeek/status/450438984574193665 I think awareness is key with these type of issues, infrastructure providers are very opaque beasts and the underlying p
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DigitalOcean not destroying droplets securely, data is completely recoverable(gist.github.com)
187 points by nixgeek 13y ago|66 comments
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by nixgeek 13y ago
This really isn't news, OpenVZ isn't the same virtualisation as DigitalOcean are using and you're effectively tied to a kernel provided by OVH. It also isn't SSD-based.
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by nixgeek 13y ago
If you're intending to have a reasonably-sized stable of clients then there are significant tax and liability advantages to doing things through your own Limited Company, but that really is a nomadic existence, you can't just work
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by nixgeek 13y ago
If the seed round was for $2.6MM, does anyone have an inkling as to what valuation that was done against?
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by nixgeek 13y ago
Today is a sad day. I wonder what will replace full-disclosure as the de-facto vehicle to announce vulnerabilities.
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by nixgeek 13y ago
Probably a while, Ubuntu isn't too prone to changing things just because Debian (upstream) decided to do something.
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by nixgeek 13y ago
I don't see that. Did you just out a staff only feature? ;)
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by nixgeek 13y ago
If a US ambulance ride for 15 minutes costs $1,722 [1] then how much does evacuation via an Ecuadorian navy helicopter and then a jet back to a US hospital cost the insurer? [1] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/05&#x
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Embracing change in life and at work(popforms.com)
2 points by nixgeek 13y ago|0 comments
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by nixgeek 13y ago
I presume the audience felt a Chief Technology Evangelist had more control over the tone and intent of his messages on the Internet, and therefore actually meant to couch his three questions within pointy remarks about responsible disclosur
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by nixgeek 13y ago
This is a well-documented situation that almost every provider of 'consumable infrastructure' before DigitalOcean came along has faced and solved. It is disheartening to see the same mistakes being made. Whilst I absolutely see th
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by nixgeek 13y ago
Not sure what you expect for $5 a month.
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Network Congestion and Web Browsing(insouciant.org)
7 points by nixgeek 13y ago|0 comments
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by nixgeek 14y ago
If you control the IRC daemon is there any reason we can't have full server-side logging of all channels and 1:1 interaction in a similar way to HipChat, et al?
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by nixgeek 14y ago
Another parser for Ruby is hiding over here: https://github.com/parkr/tock
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by nixgeek 14y ago
For the love of baby jesus why can't people get the 'H' right.
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by nixgeek 14y ago
Oracle.
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Recent Code Search Outages(github.com)
27 points by nixgeek 14y ago|8 comments
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by nixgeek 14y ago
It's probably worth reviewing this article on Intel FM6000 SDN to get a glimpse into the complexity involved. http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/...
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by nixgeek 14y ago
I guess we have differing viewpoints, I see absolutely no fundamental reason why infrastructure should be treated all that much differently to code. It should be possible to fire off a test suite, to automate its deployment, etc. I would ag
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by nixgeek 14y ago
By that simplistic logic then Arista 7500-series [1] would give you a 384-port aggregation (per device) with 48-port rack switches hung off it for something like 8000+ servers. What stops someone from having multiple zones within a datacent
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by nixgeek 14y ago
As with any purchasing decision you can read the T&Cs when making up your mind and are free to vote with your wallet if you disagree. Another factoid is that Amazon Web Services (AWS) only offers a 99.95% SLA so where did the 99.99% for
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by nixgeek 14y ago
Adapting a legacy network to deal with growing pains is hard. Anyone who says different is probably lying, or hasn't administered a network outside of 'bedroom scale' previously. Whilst everyone prefers to work with a blank canvas that is a

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