A two-part series on LXC networking (Flockport Labs)

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Flockport Labs has a two-part "LXC networking superguide" that covers a bunch of LXC networking concepts, as well as practical ideas on connecting containers (Part1 and Part 2). Part 1 starts with an introduction to LXC networking, then moves into…

Mosh – a robust, responsive replacement for SSH

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Remote terminal application that allows roaming, supports intermittent connectivity, and provides intelligent local echo and line editing of user keystrokes. Mosh is a replacement for interactive SSH terminals. It's more robust and responsive,…

Why you should not “store” your sessions in memcached

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Show HN: Using SVG to Shrink Your PNGs

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Using SVG to Shrink Your PNGs Wouldn’t it be great if you could get the compression of a JPEG with the transparency of a PNG? Well, you can, sort of. Here’s a little trick that I discovered while working on the new Sapporo Beer website. Notice how the…

SVG Pocket Guide

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Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is a language for describing two-dimensional graphics in XML. These graphics can consist of paths, images, and/or text that are able to be scaled and resized without losing image quality. Inline SVG refers to the embedded…

LXC container networking deep dive

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This post is to consolidate all our LXC networking guides and also explore some advanced container networking that have limited use but are interesting nonetheless hence the Flockport labs monicker. Experimental containers will now be posted under this…

Zbackup: open-source, encrypted, de-duplicated, compressed backups

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zbackup is a globally-deduplicating backup tool, based on the ideas found in rsync. Feed a large .tar into it, and it will store duplicate regions of it only once, then compress and optionally encrypt the result. Feed another .tar file, and it will also…

Show HN: Run SSH and HTTP(S) on the same port

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Switcher is a proxy server which accepts connections and proxies based on which protocol is detected. The use case is running HTTP(S) and SSH on the same port. make To get help: $ ./switcher --help Switcher 1.0.0 usage: switcher [options] Options: …

GoDaddy CSRF Vulnerability Allows Domain Takeover

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Identifying useful info from MySQL row-based binary logs

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As a MySQL DBA/consultant, it is part of my job to decode the MySQL binary logs – and there are a number of reasons for doing that. In this post, I’ll explain how you can get the important information about your write workload using MySQL row-based binary…