Insights from LISA’2010
Last week I attended Usenix-Large Installation System Administration 2010 and it certainly deserves a post.
First of all if you are into Systems and you can make it, don't miss this event! From PetaBytes storage hard core technics to performance tuning your *nix boxes, there are lots of high quality data for lots of folks from many different backgrounds.
DNS Cracks on Twitter and Baidu
I wonder if the 2 successful and spectacular DNS attacks against 2 major websites (Twitter and Baidu) have anything to do with the DNS Cache Poisining that Dan Kaminsky revealed in 2008. Meh, probably not...
I never went too deep into Dan Kaminsky's rabbit hole (Alice are you there?), after all the main DNS NS I deal with are taken care of by some guy that -hopefully- totally understands this.
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My Delicious
Blogs I Read
- All Commands
- Amazon Web Services Blog
- Cloud Scaling
- Danger Room @ Wired
- Dev2Ops
- IT @ Slash Dot
- Linux @ SlashDot
- Open Source @ Ars Technica
- Presentation Zen
- Robots.net
- Stay Safe Online
- Threat Level @ Wired
Books
Planned books:
- Lean IT by Steven C Bell, Michael A Orzen
Current books:
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An Introduction to Information Theory: Symbols, Signals and Noise by John R. Pierce
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Visible Ops by Kevin Behr,Gene Kim and George Spafford
Recent books:
- The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
- Cybernetics, Second Edition: or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine by Norbert Wiener
- The Cuckoo’s Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage by Clifford Stoll
- Apple Training Series: Xsan 2 Administration: A Guide to Designing, Deploying, and Maintaining Xsan by Robert Kite
- Snow Crash (Bantam Spectra Book) by Neal Stephenson
