So I’ve encountered a strange exploit being attempted against the VoIP system I maintain. Its not actually against the softswitch, though, but rather against the end customer’s ATA. We first saw this particular exploit three or four months ago, and its a rather strange, but at the same …
Continue ReadingAfter I posted Google Protocol Buffers Where Have You Been All My Life, I started thinking about the …
Continue ReadingSo two weeks ago I discovered Google’s Protocol Buffers, and I have to ask, where have you been all my life?
The project I was working on requires speed and scalability, both vertically and …
Continue ReadingA few months ago we moved into a new place with a much smaller living room, it didn’t have nearly enough room for a full size computer case in the room. So it was time for a new, much smaller frontend for our MythTV setup.
Size, noise, and being able to “hide” it are the primary …
Continue ReadingI’ve been writing code in PHP for a long time now, both for my own projects and as a freelancer. I’ve seen well written code and truly horrific code and everything in between. Much of the work I’ve done for my personal projects has been using a framework that I’ve built and …
Continue ReadingThis week I started the process of migrating from GFS to GlusterFS. The hardware running my GFS cluster is older and I decided it was better to replace it than continue maintaining it.
Back in 2003 I needed to find a storage solution that was fast, reliable, and …
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