February 2012
4 posts
For me understanding comes in three forms: The picture I begin to draw...
– When the Sky Falls
In 2011, we have witnessed the incredible power of bloggers and social media...
– For Bloggers at Risk: Creating a Contingency Plan | Electronic Frontier Foundation
On Wall Street, bonus season is a sacred ritual. It is the annual rite where net...
– The End of Wall Street As They Knew It
January 2012
4 posts
There are a lot of tools out there to make the system administrator’s life...
– Trouble-Maker
Start 2012 by Taking 2 Minutes to Clean Your Apps Permissions
– mypermissions.org
Sunlight Labs is part of the Sunlight Foundation a non-profit, non partisan...
– Sunlight Labs
Computer system resources (whether hardware and software) are represented by...
– Performance Dynamics
December 2011
8 posts
Team Cymru is happy to announce the availability of various service options...
– IP to ASN Mapping - Team Cymru
Of these principles, the most fundamental is the principle of safety: DTrace...
– DTrace Safety
When the project started in January of 2005, early discussion by the SystemTap...
– DTrace Knockoffs
In some recent threads about DTrace, people have asked how it compares to...
– Using SystemTap
Fibre Channel Concepts (Oracle Solaris Video)
This information is useful, not just for developers writing code (who are...
– Performance Instrumentation Counters: short talk (Brendan Gregg)
A series of seven video modules presented by Oracle Senior Staff Engineer Ruud...
– An Introduction To Parallel Programming
These pages are the Swiss Army knife for everyone in the need to analyze and...
– Solaris Performance: Getting Started
November 2011
7 posts
Now that we have a health check, we need to add it to our load balancing rule....
– Integrated Load Balancer (The Observatory)
http://www.javapassion.com/javaperformance/#Tips_fo... →
Performance, Monitoring and Management, Testing, and Debugging of Java Applications
Since Solaris 10 8/07, zone configurations can be either in the default...
– Solaris 10 Zones and Networking — Common Considerations
Logs are just data… Processed and analyzed, they become information.
– Designing a Logging Solution
http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2011/11/vulner... →
Vulnerabilities give hackers ability to open prison cells from afar
VNC threats have been known and seen in the wild for many years. The attack...
– Dragon Research Group (DRG) :: vnc-tac
Even if relativity turned out to be wrong,” he said, “it’s...
– Particles Moved Faster Than Speed of Light?
October 2011
10 posts
Niall Ferguson: Empires on the Edge of Chaos
If you’re a participant in a society, you wind up being susceptible to...
– Conversation with Marcus Ranum
According to sources, Outkube boasts thousands of articles and forums carefully...
– New Decoy Website Launched To Lure Away All Moronic Internet Commenters
So, as people reflect on Steve Jobs’ legacy, surely one fundamental issue...
– Steve Jobs and the Purpose of the Corporation - Ben W. Heineman, Jr. - Harvard Business Review
Humans are storytelling machines. We don’t passively perceive the world – we...
– How Friends Ruin Memory: The Social Conformity Effect
September 2011
4 posts
To be a well-rounded IT professional, I figure that one needs to grasp the...
– Understanding IT
The young people protesting in Wall Street and beyond reject this vain economic...
– Occupy Wall Street rediscovers the radical imagination
Bad programming is easy. Idiots can learn it in 21 days, even if they are...
– Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years
August 2011
7 posts
Lightweight Web Services
Programming, especially with databases, used to be challenging. I remember...
– Why NoSQL is bad for startups
In this nine-part bootcamp, we show you how to get started and successfully roll...
– VMware Communities: VMware View™ Bootcamp
Flings | VMware Labs →
Assessing and Pen-Testing IPv6 Networks
July 2011
8 posts
Despite that, the industry as a whole has adopted this certification as some...
– My Canons on (ISC)² Ethics - Such as They Are
Mac OS X Developer Library →
WebKit2 will provide a stable C-based non-blocking API that is mostly platform...
– WebKit2
You read that right. Lion will quit your running applications behind your back...
– Mac OS X 10.7 Lion: the Ars Technica review
It’s becoming stupidly easy for people to learn things about you through a...
– Your humiliating secrets, now showing on Google
Hey, we are concert enthusiasts who record the concerts we go and see. We put...
– Fan Made Recordings.