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In defence of the death of private clouds
Last week, Flexiant posted a whitepaper I had written, proclaiming that private cloud was ultimately dead. Jeremiah Dooley (who works in the office of the CTO at VCE) posted a thoughtful riposte yesterday. Firstly, I’d like to thank Jeremiah for taking the time to read the paper before commenting (not everyone did that), and most of all… — read more
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Dilbert, mathematical ability, and national debt
Inspired by this Dilbert cartoon, for a bit of fun I decided to plot GDP as a percentage of national debt (from here, using IMF data) against mathematical ability for 15 years a while ago (from here). I kept it to European countries on the basis they would be at similar stages of development. Is poor… — read more
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Reliable and trackable download servers
Providing trackable download servers seems to be a tricky business. I wanted to reliably log download over http and associate them with an authenticated user, where that authentication is carried out over https (from WordPress), but not pass basic auth parameters to http in the clear for obvious reasons. Further, I wanted to track the… — read more
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Using apache-websocket to proxy tcp connections
At Flexiant, we had a need for a general websocket to tcp proxy. A cute apache module to do extensible web-sockets programming has been developed by self.disconnect, and is available on github here. I’ve hacked around with this to produce a generic, apache licensed, websocket proxy. A websocket connection is made over HTTP or HTTPS… — read more
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Nominet: More SOCA games
You may remember that around this time last year, Nominet announced a misguided proposal for a cosy relationship with law enforcement agencies. I’ve blogged several times before about this (here, here, here and here), but last week their issue group has come up with yet another revised set of draft recommendations that they will be… — read more
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Nominet: SOCA scores again
I’ve blogged several times before (here, here and here) about Nominet’s misguided proposal for a cosy relationship with law enforcement agencies. Their issue group has come up with a revised set of draft recommendations that they will be proposing to the board for adoption. As per last time, the same misguided principles remain. There has,… — read more
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Nominet and SOCA, a romance in three parts
Forgive the attention-seeking title. I’ve blogged before (here and here) about Nominet’s misguided proposal for a rather too cosy relationship with law enforcement agencies (I say “Nominet’s” proposal, though it’s never been entirely clear whether the proposal emanated from SOCA, Nominet or both). Now their issue group has come up with a set of principles… — read more
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Adding SQL support to dhcpd, part 3
I blogged here about adding SQL support to dhcpd. I’ve fixed a couple of issues – mainly memory leaks. I have no idea how I missed these before (sigh). The good news is that the server ran for sufficiently long for the process to get to many gigabytes in size, and nothing crashed! You can… — read more
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Domain names caught in the crossfire
I wrote here about the dangers of Registry operators, particularly Nominet, allowing suspension of domain names outside the due process of courts, to make matters ‘easier’ for law enforcement. One of the many reasons why this is a bad idea is that innocent bystanders can get caught in the crossfire. Now, exactly that has happened… — read more
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Autism and Orwell
This is is a deeply scary article about a young autistic man trapped in what the author describes, without exaggeration, as an Orwellian nightmare. I can’t put it much better than the original author, so I encourage you to go and read it. — read more