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QoS considerations for Carrier Grade Clouds: location, location, location.

A Carrier-Grade Cloud (CGC) is a cloud platform suitable for deployment, with stringent Availability, Reliability, QoS and Security requirements which are fundamental for Real-Time applications in many...

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Service Level Agreements for Carrier-Grade Clouds: beyond best-effort

Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are a the nuts and bolts of a business agreement and next to QoS and Security the final pillar of a Carrier-Grade Cloud offering. SLAs define functional and...

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Tony Hoare: Invention of the null-reference a billion dollar mistake

Computing Pioneer Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare (aka C.A.R. Hoare) was mostly known for his Quicksort algorithm, but less remembered for the idea of the “null-reference”. He noted in 2009 that it...

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Re: Seasons greetings

Hello <name omitted>, thanks also a happy peaceful Christmas and year of positive change in 2015 to you. The Telco market is tough. I know this is hardly news right? It has been like this since …...

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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy: US industrial espionage in Germany

a quick reminder that NSA surveillance is not just a post 9/11 phenomenon. “Echelon” was a US industrial espionage program in Germany. See this post from 2000 calling for the shutdown of the program....

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Is DevOps Bullshit?

In a recently trending rant on hackernews Josh Johnson pointed to his negative experience with the DevOps process after taking on a new job in a firm that had a “dedicated devops team”. The post is...

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As a goat I’m skeptical of Docker’s hype …

… containers can’t isolate me   Never run containers as root (use unprivileged accounts such as nobody:nogroup) Don’t setuid Use SELinux Limit capabilities (e.g. if you need to bind to a port <1024...

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The Software Engineers Guide to Mercury Retrograde

According to Western astrology, there’s this thing called “Mercury Retrograde”. Before you dismiss it as mumbo-jumbo remember that this “science” is several thousand years old. And probably too complex...

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LXD crushes KVM, Canonical says

Today Canonical released a benchmark pitting LXD against KVM promising vast improvements in performance. On average, LXD guests started in 1.5 seconds, while KVM guests took 25 seconds to start. I...

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Misconfigured US DoS website leaked classified files into archive.org

thiébaud.fr has recently pointed out that the robots.txt file from the US Department of State website contains a grave misconfiguration. A robots.txt is part of a webservers configuration and supposed...

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John Nash letter to the NSA

John Nash died tragically yesterday, 23rd May in a taxi crash in New Jersey. Nash struggled with schizophrenia that he also passed on to his son. His recovery became the basis for Sylvia Nasar’s...

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The Web of Things needs your support

Are you working on backend web technologies or in the embedded sector? I’d like to get in touch with a request for your expertise around some upcoming future-technologies and projects in the Web of...

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Hunter S. Thompson on Finding Your Purpose

22 year old Hunter S. Thompson wrote in 1958, this amazing and inspiring response to his friend Hume Logan who asked him for life advice. April 22, 1958 57 Perry Street New York City Dear Hume, You ask...

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Using Big Data to Analyse your Personality and Character

The age of Big Data, Machine Learning and Predictive Analytics promises some truly revolutionary changes in the way we select and filter in a modern HR process and narrow down the candidate pool. We...

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Should Open Standards be Open Source?

Frank Yue (F5) just said Open Standards do not have to be Open Source. Why is this a bad idea? Open Standards that are not Open Source remove the voting power from individuals and smaller players....

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Editor Wars: Why emacs and vi present a steep learning curve

Ever wonder if there was a historic reason why emacs and vi cause the brains of most beginners to melt? emacs and vi were used on machines that had different keyboard layouts than the modern IBM design...

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Hacking Team has been hacked. Good, let’s take action!

Are you a specialist in Human Rights law? We need your help as an activist! The Milan, Italy based “Hacking Team Srl” a company notorious for selling surveillance technologies to dictators with a fat...

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The Mozilla Foundation unveiled a plan to revamp Firefox

Earlier this month the Mozilla Foundation unveiled a plan to revamp its browser Firefox. It’s no secret that Google Chrome has been taking a bigger and bigger share of users and there has been...

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Cybersecurity as Realpolitik – Dan Greer

Abstract: Power exists to be used. Some wish for cyber safety, which they will not get. Others wish for cyber order, which they will not get. Some have the eye to discern cyber policies that are “the...

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Donald Trump as seen by Google deepdream

It’s too hot today to do some serious work, so instead I’ve been playing with google deepdream using vagrant. Here is a nightmare of Donald Trump as seen by google’s deepdream engine.   Apologies if...

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