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by oasisbob 14y ago
The high steal% is intentional, as the CPU is allowed to burst to take advantage of unused resources: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/concepts_... I don't find my cheap t1.micro based IRC bouncer / VPN / reverse SSH end
902.
by oasisbob 14y ago
but there are plenty of remotely controlled Cisco routers that can pump out more data than hundreds of thousands of bots Have any examples? I would think that a router is less than ideal here, as most forms of traffic generation would inv
903.
by oasisbob 14y ago
Define 'insecure locations'. Some orgs go to great lengths to segment access to their networking core and establish separation of privileges using AAA, etc. As well, configs can leak out through other means (TAC case, submission to auditors
904.
by oasisbob 14y ago
That's a false dichotomy. Communication and coordination are important parts of incident response. Key engineers shouldn't be doing either. If an org doesn't have dedicated people to communicate with their customers and triage support durin
905.
by oasisbob 14y ago
Something vaguely similar happened to me once while registering a new scooter. Because it was shipped to me directly, it had less than a mile on the odometer. (Less than half a km even, if memory serves.) Under penalty of perjury, I had to
906.
by oasisbob 14y ago
Fate-sharing is one good reason. There are probably more.
907.
by oasisbob 14y ago
Unless you're doing it evade reporting requirements. Taking out 100k in currency within a year will look very suspicious -- financial institutions run regular look-back reports designed to find this kind of thing. Were a bank officer to ask
908.
by oasisbob 14y ago
note: be careful about how you accumulate said cash. CTRs are generated if you withdraw too quickly. This is very bad advice, as it's illegal in the US to intentionally evade CTRs by aggregating smaller transactions. It's known as structu
909.
by oasisbob 14y ago
I'm a bit surprised to see that nobody has mentioned that this is a very common configuration in the real world, cars linked this way ("coupled, from now until eternity") are called married pairs, or twin units: http://en.wikipedia.org/wi
910.
by oasisbob 14y ago
I could not imagine the engineers at Boeing slapping together a battery pack for something like the 787 project without years of work and testing. Assuming you're right in regards to the skills of their engineers, wouldn't it only be rele
911.
by oasisbob 14y ago
pt-online-schema change is a great tool, but not a panacea. I've seen a serious issue where under moderately heavy load, the OSC tool would trigger a deadlock on the final atomic table swap, blocking all transactions against the table, incl
912.
by oasisbob 14y ago
Huh, sure enough, I stand corrected. Must have entirely forgot that I added that option while rushing to play around while things were being removed. Thanks!
913.
by oasisbob 14y ago
Sure you can. (Just gave it a shot on a Ubuntu VM the other day while exploring shared library linking.) Do some systems really have a flag more forceful than -f ?
914.
by oasisbob 14y ago
In that sense, Reed's team was like a startup: everyone had to be ultra-capable because they had to pick up anyone's slack at any time It's important to note that in this sense, "polyglot" refers to the collective group -- ie, the Obama c
915.
by oasisbob 14y ago
I'm not entirely sure that's the case. The DNC voterfile is compiled primarily from public record requests, and is as complete this cycle as it was in any other. Narwhal and other OFA DBs may have supplemental information -- as do the "blue
916.
by oasisbob 14y ago
api.snapchat.com is currently a CNAME to feelinsonice-hrd.appspot.com . Apparently the current API has been reverse-engineered very recently [1], with an alternate implementation publicly available [2]. Not good considering the nature of th
917.
by oasisbob 14y ago
They already do, although it is quite new. The AWS provisioned IOPS layer ("pIOPS") is SSD-backed, and can be used for RDS: http://aws.amazon.com/rds/#PIOPS There isn't currently an easy way to migrate to pIOPS from traditional RDS, but t
918.
by oasisbob 14y ago
and part of LI is it cannot be detected whether it is enabled or not. Interestingly, I've heard that although the LI is supposed to be transparent, it's typically very apparent to network operators when their kit is actively involved in L
919.
by oasisbob 14y ago
Might be worth going commercial with this, there are already some good well-developed devices for environmental monitoring. I'm a fan of the WeatherGoose / MiniGoose / WatchDog: http://www.itwatchdogs.com/product-detail-weathergoose_ii-1.
920.
by oasisbob 14y ago
This isn't true. Comcast, Verizon, and T-Mobile are a few of the big eyeball networks who are making large infrastructure investments in IPv6. ISPs are far ahead of most content and hosting providers in this area, as they bear the pain of I
921.
by oasisbob 14y ago
On the outages mailing list[1], Mike Dob (GoDaddy Network Engineering Manager) just added more details, saying: > It was BGP related and more details should be posted today [1] http://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/outages
922.
by oasisbob 14y ago
APNS tokens are generally tied to a specific app so it may be possible to figure out what app leaked their database This isn't true, APNS device tokens are shared among apps on a device. The only time a device will have more than one devi
923.
by oasisbob 14y ago
It's not just NASA, zip-ties are banned in plenty of data centers and telecom facilities for the reasons cited. Less of a concern on Mars, but the edge where the excess is cut away can be really sharp and hazardous as well.
924.
by oasisbob 14y ago
Can imagine those sites suffered bit-rot once the technique became widespread, they're very useful, and there's not much to them. A webhook is just a callback that notifies an arbitrary URL when an event occurs. A good explanation is here:
925.
by oasisbob 14y ago
I have some live instances running without EBS disks that I can not place behind the ELB as it is not working. ELBs are sometimes EBS backed.
926.
by oasisbob 14y ago
Perhaps you're thinking of the proposal to abolish the leap second entirely? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16625614 The parent link is to the authoritative Bulletin C, hard to imagine that it's wrong.
927.
by oasisbob 14y ago
Something tells me that the bitterness from Sonics fans will be around for a while. When the Thunder advanced to the finals, a Washington-state newspaper ran the headline "Sonics advance to Finals, oh wait // Oklahoma City steals team, and
928.
by oasisbob 14y ago
Imagine a car, coming to a red light in the right lane. It then turns right on red, but rather than driving on in the new road, it makes a sudden u-turn, coming back to the intersection. Then makes a right on green, and continues on in the
929.
by oasisbob 15y ago
For some environments, this may be the case. I find native packaging to be really helpful in mixed environments. On a daily basis I need to deploy Rails/PHP/Python, and using a native package manager is a nice common denominator. When I fir
930.
by oasisbob 15y ago
Wouldn't evacuating the air from the packaging make the chips inside the container crush and break easier? It's always been my understanding that the head room inside the package helps protect the contents.

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