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12 Years of Retro-Christmas Computing

Dec 2, 2018 · 1 min read
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Paleotronic’s 12 Years of Retro-Christmas Year One: 1980 - Paleotronic Magazine A sticky post for Dicember 2018

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?FileSystem is faster than RAM [under your Operating System]

Jan 18, 2019 · 2 min read
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I am studying Apache Kafka (a "distributed streaming platform") and I stubled upon this conclusion: the "disk read fear" a lot of projects have in the past, is a fake.

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Fail2Ban

Jan 28, 2019 · 1 min read
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On these days I decided to tune a bit more, my new shiny linux server box. I started to set up fail2ban. I think fail2ban is very imporant nowadays because it is a good example of a tool for slowing down attacks without closing your server too much.

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Detecting Agile bullshit

Feb 5, 2019 · 1 min read
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The department of defense, has published a nice document to “detect” agile bullshit. The document is called DIB_DETECTING_AGILE_BS_2018.10.05 and was published on October 2018.

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isync: free IMAP and MailDir mailbox synchronizer

Feb 8, 2019 · 1 min read
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isync: free IMAP and MailDir mailbox synchronizerisync is a command line application which synchronizes mailboxes; currently Maildir and IMAP4 mailboxes are supported. New messages, message deletions and flag changes can be propagated both ways. isync is suitable for use in IMAP-disconnected mode.Synchronization is based on unique message identifiers (UIDs), so no identification conflicts can occur (as opposed to some other mail synchronizers).Synchronization state is kept in one local text file per mailbox pair; multiple replicas of a mailbox can be maintained.isync is free software in the sense of the GNU GPL v2.
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Finding Kafka’s throughput limit in Dropbox infrastructure | Dropbox Tech Blog

Feb 14, 2019 · 1 min read
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At Dropbox, Kafka clusters are managed by the Jetstream team, whose primary responsibility is to provide high quality Kafka services. Understanding Kafka’s throughput limit in Dropbox infrastructure is crucial in making proper provisioning decision for different use cases, and this has been an important goal for the team. Recently, we created an automated testing platform to achieve this objective. In this post, we would like to share our method and findings.
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SQL: One of the most valuable skills - Craig Kerstiens

Feb 19, 2019 · 2 min read
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I admit it. I suffered from an “algebra narcoleptic syndrome” during my relational database lessons at University (1996 circa).

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UTF-8 and Unicode Standards

Feb 21, 2019 · 1 min read
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Character encoding is a very bad beast when you write code, but UTF-8 will save us.

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Introduction to org mode parser

Feb 24, 2019 · 1 min read
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Org-mode is an Emacs mode for keeping notes, maintaining To-do lists, doing project planning, and authoring with a fast and effective plain-text system.

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Power Start

Feb 28, 2019 · 2 min read
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After some tweaks, we changed a bit of things on Gioorgi.com in Winter 2019

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