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Unique, Secure, Memorable Passwords

An easy way to generate a unique, memorable but secure password for each website or service you visit is to apply the following recipe:

5 December 2011 at 15:06 - Comments

How Disqus does scaling

Here is a great presentation given by Jason Yan and David Cramer of Disqus fame about how their site was architected in order to scale to handle 75 million comments. DjangoCon 2010 Scaling Disqus View more presentations from zeeg.

8 September 2010 at 20:52 - Comments

dhclient and resolv.conf

For some reason, when I get onto a client’s network and run /sbin/dhclient on my hacked-together-linux notebook, dhclient gets an IP address via DHCP, but doesn’t update my /etc/resolv.conf with the local name servers, so names don’t get resolved using DNS. I haven’t figured out a fix for this yet, but a temporary work-around is [...]

15 September 2009 at 10:18 - Comments