technology
Amazon Web Service's new Content Data Network, Cloudfront was launched two days ago. Previously Cachefly had been the premier choice for Small and Medium size businesses looking for a content data network to speed up downloads for the users. I was mainly interested in download speed in the
technology
I spent quite a long time googling for a way of re-creating symmetric cone nat in house without buying Cisco hardware. Hopefully someone else will find this useful. This was done on Ubuntu 8.04 beta. eth1 = public ip eth0 = lan ip echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/
technology
Hongli Lai asks why some think Rails deployment is difficult. First, a disclaimer. I am not a Ruby on Rails expert. I have only used Rails for one small production project. I found both Ruby and Rails quite easy to pick up coming from a J2EE background. What can be
technology
Draft 1 OAuth 1.0 spec was announced yesterday. By my count, it requires no less than 6 HTTP request/response round trips assuming the user is already logged in to the service provider. If the user is NOT logged into the service provider and has to log in before
business
Why does a Landscape-managed deployment of Ubuntu cost US$250 per seat per year? For my 7-seat deployment in our new China-based subsidiary, that would cost us US$1,750/year. Compare to the Microsoft Partner Program's Actionpack Subscription at HK$2,792 (~US$350) per year. The
politics
Ohio voters passed the SmokeFreeOhio late last year. Ten months after the voters spoke, the first fines were issued against offending businesses. The penalty for businesses that have ignored the will of voters for almost a year? A measly US$100. There are bars that make more than that on
business
I am a huge fan of OpenID. My initial interest was piqued by the promise of no longer having to remember login credentials for dozens if not hundreds of websites. The security benefits of only having to protect one set of login credentials instead of many became quickly obvious thanks
I logged into my email today to 50+ emails from eBay. My initial reaction was: Great! Google's email SPAM filter has finally broken down. Unfortunately, it was not a simple case of spoofed eBay emails making it through the trusty SPAM filter. My eBay account had been hacked.
