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Sysadmin Sunday 54

This is Sysadmin Sunday, a post of interesting links from throughout the previous week.

How Visa Protects Your Data
Git explodes
Secure Boot impact on Linux

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Chalk Waterfall

Chalk Art by Edgar Mueller Found thanks to Hooch

A sense of humor

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.
    — Henry Ward Beecher

Thanks Brother Paul
 

Fire Tornado

Tagged: extreme, fire, gifs, tornado, yikes Submitted by: ChemoPower

FOREHEAD MUSTACHE

FOREHEAD MUSTACHE
because 1 mustache isn’t enough
Submitted by: Unknown

Fan of This Move

Tagged: bed, ceiling, FAIL, gifs, inflatable mattress, ouch Submitted by: Unknown

The Important Field

8 Extreme Halloween Costumes for Geeks

If you're gonna do something, make sure it's memorable, and these geeky costumes are extreme to say the least. Starting off, we have a terminator robot. Continue reading to see the other eight.


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Good Recovery

Tagged: extreme, gifs, good recovery, hill, racing, skills Submitted by: Unknown

Driving In Europe

Tagged: cars, driving, europe, gifs, wtf Submitted by: Unknown

New - AWS Management Console Support for the Simple Email Service

The Amazon Simple Email Service gives you a simple and cost-effective way to send any volume of bulk or transactional email. We send millions of emails on behalf of thousands of Amazon SES customers each and every day.
You can now access Amazon SES thr...

Elastic Load Balancing: More IPv6 Support, More Metrics, More IP Addresses

We have made some improvements to our Elastic Load Balancing product:

IPv6 is now supported in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) regions.
Each Elastic Load Balancer reports six new metrics to Amazon CloudWatch.
The DNS entry associ...

Sad But True

Tagged: critters, gifs, life, sad but true Submitted by: UnknownVia: peetaah.tumblr.com

Boxee for iPad & Spotify update

We released Boxee for iPad version 1.2 into the iTunes app store today.
Here’s a run down of the standout new features in the app.

If you look to the lower right hand corner of this screenshot you’ll see the new remote control for video you’ve s...

Sjentelmen

Twintig stappen NORMAALDOEN voor mannen.

Zurb Foundation - Design scaffold for your web app

Zurb Foundation - Design scaffold for your web app: The talented team at Zurb has released Foundation, a design scaffold for building web applications. Much like HTML5 Boilerplate, Foundation comes with some sensible markup defaults, however it goes fa...

Carpet Swinging

Tagged: carpet, FAIL, gifs, ouch, work Submitted by: Unknown

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Full Stack CakePHP Deployment With Chef and Capistrano - Part 2

This text is the second in a long series to correct an extremely disastrous talk at CakeFest 2011. It

Say Hello to Hubot

For the past year or so we've been telling people about Hubot, our amazing Campfire bot. We have a lot of fun working on Hubot. He makes us laugh, he ships our code, he is the interface to our CI server, and a whole lot more. Over the last year, he's...

Vinyl biking

Many of us (at least here in The Netherlands) put on music while biking. But did you know soon it might be possible to spin vinyl records by simply riding your bike? Thanks to  designers Liat Azulay (also founder of Ludduvudde), Merel Slootheer, Piete...

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Carpeting

Tagged: carpets, cats, Caturday, cute, gifs, rugs Submitted by: Unknown

First Annual Octocat Dodgeball Tournament a Success!

The first annual Octocat Dodgeball Tournament was held yesterday in San Francisco at the Mission Rec Center. 17 teams joined us for 4 hours of ball throwing fun, in the process raising $57,000 for charities.



We were even joined by our own little da...

New Old Hints

Hi all! It's several weeks when we last introduced you some pure PHP improvements, isn't it? But now, it's here again :-) Today we would like to write something about old well-known PHP hints, their new implementation and new improvements. Here they ar...

Punches Thrown

Tagged: gifs, MMA, ouch, punches, UFC, yikes Submitted by: cocobox

Party Under The Bridge

Full Series Of Pics

Kitten Jumps

Tagged: cats, Caturday, gifs, kitten, truck, yikes Submitted by: TSGIGORVia: www.youtube.com

Pulling a Plane

Tagged: Caturday, get a job, gifs, plane, pulling Submitted by: Unknown

Clint Byrum (SpamapS): Juju ODS Demo – The Home Version

A few weeks ago I gave a live demo during Canonical CEO Jane Silber’s keynote at the Essex OpenStack Conference, which was held in Boston October 4-7 (See my previous post for details of the conference and summit). The demo was meant to showcase ou...

GitHub Secrets

Over the years we've added quite a bit of stuff to GitHub. Sometimes we ship huge features, sometimes we ship small, lesser-known bonus features.

Let's talk about some of those secret features you may not know about.

Whitespace



Ever have someone p...

This Bro is a Pro-Partier

Tagged: bro, dancing, extreme, gifs, lsd, party Submitted by: Unknown

Punching Bag Fail

Tagged: FAIL, gifs, punching bag, whoops Submitted by: Unknown

Why ESI is Still Important, and How to Make it Better

More than ten years ago, I was working at Akamai and got involved in the specification of Edge Side Includes (ESI), sort of a templating language for intermediaries.
In that time, interest in ESI has grown, waned and been reborn. As far as I can tell,...

Amazon Simple Queue Service: Batch Operations, Delay Queue, and Message Timers

We have added some nice new features to the Simple Queue Service. You can now use batch operations to send and delete messages with greater efficiency and at a lower cost. You can make any of your queues into a delay queue, and you can also use message...

SEEMS LEGIT

SEEMS LEGIT
Submitted by: gus

Rectangular Selection

If you use development build, you probably noticed that NetBeans editor added Rectangular Selection action. I don't need this functionality every day, but it can be helpful in some case. One of such case is when you need to delete line numbers in a tex...

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Do a Google Search for ‘ip’ and Get Your IP Address

Millions of us know the trick of getting our public IP address. Most go to ipchicken or the site aptly called “whatismyip”. Well, Google just made all that unnecessary.

You can now just search for ‘ip’ (yes, two letters) and it’ll return you...

Zend Studio + GitHub

Yesterday Zend announced full support for Git and GitHub in the next version of Zend Studio (9.0). If you're a PHP developer, chances are you know about Zend — and if you're using GitHub, your life just got a whole lot more awesome. Take a PHP projec...

All of the Hooks

Over three years ago, @pjhyett launched GitHub Services with just four services: Campfire, IRC, Lighthouse, and Twitter. Since then, 124 other people contributed to a total of 67 68 3rd party services. We and many others depend on these services to p...

iPhone luistert toetsaanslagen van pc af

De accelerometer in smartphones kan gebruikt worden om wachtwoorden af te luisteren. Als je de telefoon naast een toetsenbord ligt herkent hij door trillingen toetsencombinaties.

Ninja Turtle Noses

More at Teenage Mutant Ninja Noses

How Springs are Made

Tagged: gifs, how its made, industry, springs Submitted by: Unknown

Take That, Ya Dummy

Tagged: dummy, eventual win, FAIL, gifs, ouch, pride, punching, puns Submitted by: Unknown

Building Relationships

50 of the World’s Best Breakfasts

1. A full English Breakfast – it must have beans, sausages, bacon, eggs, mushrooms, hash browns and toast. Of course, it should all be knocked back with a cup of tea, but black pudding is optional as far as I’m concerned.

2. Breakfast in Iran – ...

The Easiest Way to Solve a Rubik’s Cube

This may be useful to a certain time traveling celebrity…
Tagged: Dr Who, gifs, legos, machine, magic, phone, rubiks cube, science!, technics Submitted by: UnknownVia: ARMflix

Aaron Toponce: Use wget(1) To Expand Shortened URLs

I’m a fan of all things microblogging, but let’s face it: until URLs become part of the XML, and not part of your character count (which is ridiculous anyway), shortened URLs are going to be a way of life. Unfortunately, those shortened URLs can be...

Jack Russell Exercising Himself

Jack Russells are phenomenally cute.
Tagged: ball, cute, gifs, jack russell terrier, sundog Submitted by: _C_A_T_Via: thedailywh.at

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Sharing Todo Lists with iOS 5's Reminders app

Last night I figured out that it’s possible to share your reminder lists with other iCloud users, like a Groceries list shared with my wife Kate, which we’re trying out right now.
The new Reminders app in iOS 5 leaves a lot of room for improvement...

No More Sexting Your GF, Bro

Tagged: bro, cars, communication, gifs, text Submitted by: Federico

JazzLibs - Ruby CLI to rollout and manage JavaScript libraries

JazzLibs - Ruby CLI to rollout and manage JavaScript libraries: JazzLibs is a small Ruby library from Paul Engel to stamp out a repository structure and manage JavaScript libraries. The simple Thor-based CLI unfurls a new project that includes:

a sou...

Three Smart Guys Doing Something Smart

Tagged: FAIL, gifs, nut shot, ouch, smart, triple fail Submitted by: Unknown

C-C-C-Combo Breaker!!!

Tagged: awesome, gifs, judo, killer instinct, martial arts, reversal, throw Submitted by: RicoMunster

Sysadmin Sunday 52

This is Sysadmin Sunday, a post of interesting links from throughout the previous week.

A lsof guide
The Search for a More Perfect Kilogram
Leveled Compaction in Apache Cassandra
Why you should never build a backblaze pod
MongoDB + RabbitMQ: Distribut...

Paige - Site generator for GitHub pages powered by Docco and Node.js

Paige - Site generator for GitHub pages powered by Docco and Node.js: If you love the minimal approach of Docco, take a look at Paige, a site generator from Rodrigo Thauby for GitHub Pages.



Paige includes some sensible, attractive defaults, but you ...

Customizable, localized add-to-home-screen script for iOS

Customizable, localized add-to-home-screen script for iOS: Supporting two dozen languages and easily customizable with CSS, add-to-home-screen from Cubiq makes it easy to let users add your site to the iOS home screen.

Pacifist Cat

Tagged: cats, Caturday, cute, gifs, guns, war, wtf Submitted by: Unknown

No You Can’t Use My Door

Tagged: cats, Caturday, dogs, doors, gifs Submitted by: Unknown

Sidney Vollmer: Alles ruikt naar chocola (fragment)

De eerste muur is bijna helemaal Keniaans geel. Willem komt binnenlopen terwijl ik de tweede muur verf. Hij gooit zijn spijkerjack op een stoel, rolt een verfroller door een bak en klimt op een kruk. ‘Alles goed?’ vraag ik. Hij bromt instemmend. Kl...

Lessening the Blow

Submitted by: Sonic

Don’t Give Me That, Hermana

Tagged: beard, epic, gifs, slap Submitted by: UnknownVia: www.reddit.com

Almost Success, Hermana!

Tagged: almost, FAIL, fist bump, gifs, hand shake, white people Submitted by: Unknown

Spotify Now Streaming Music With Custom Boxee App

Spotify’s endless catalogue of music has arrived on Boxee.

When I tell people about Spotify, I say it’s like iTunes, but with millions and millions of songs built in… and sharing that makes “Ping” look like an 8-track.  With its recent Face...

Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) released

The Ubuntu 11.10 release is available. "For PC users, Ubuntu 11.10 supports laptops, desktops and netbooks
with a unified look and feel based on an updated version of the
desktop shell called 'Unity', which introduces specialized 'Lenses'.
Finding a...

Optical Illusion: Growing and Shrinking Cigarettes

Tagged: cigarettes, gifs, magic, optical illusion Submitted by: TSGIGORVia: www.youtube.com

Invest in us.

One of the ideal times to start a company is when you've come up with an idea for a product that has the potential to really scratch an itch that people have in both work and play; an itch that some have today, but that you know many more people will h...

Features I’d like to see in InnoDB

I had some conversations with a few people at Oracle Open World about features that would be beneficial in InnoDB. They encouraged me to blog my thoughts, so I am.

Someday I’d like to have a clear mental list of features I want in MySQL in general, ...

Issues Dashboard for Organizations

Organizations. Issues dashboard. Together at last.

Now you can discover all issues across your organization from a single page!

You can also use the context button to switch between organizations effortlessly.

STUCK

STUCK
no, no, I’m just stretching before the movie starts.
Submitted by: fareon

The Code Tab

¡OH MY SCIENCE EVERYTHING HAS CHANGED!



Welcome to the Code tab. GitHub launched over three years ago, but to this day we've never touched our main repository navigation structure. This is the first of many steps designed to take GitHub into the fut...

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Introducing Issue Mentions

With Issues 2.0 and GFM, it is easy to link to users, issues and commits from issue comments:



You can also mention issues directly from commit messages, and the mentioned issue will link back to the commit:



Now, the same is true when you mention ...

Crazy Man Jumps Over Lamborghini

Tagged: cars, extreme, gifs, jumping, lamborghini Submitted by: TSGIGORVia: www.youtube.com

InnoDB is red hot, MyISAM not

Everyone who started using MySQL before 5.5 started off with MyIsam. It was the default storage engine and you had to go out of your way to use anything else. It was a good looking database, rugged, simple and fast in many respects. But crash recovery...

Mirroring

Tagged: gifs, mirroring, monkeys, nature, silly Submitted by: TSGIGORVia: www.youtube.com

Drowning In Puppies is The Best Drowning

DOGS? IN MY INTERNET?
Tagged: dogs, drowning, gifs, puppies, so cute, sundog, want Submitted by: _C_A_T_Via: dogs.icanhascheezburger.com

Just Rock On

Tagged: avalanche, collapse, gifs, nature, rocks Submitted by: Unknown

Biking in Africa

Tagged: africa, biking, gifs, ouch, wear a helmet Submitted by: Unknown

Node v0.5.9

2011.10.10, Version 0.5.9 (unstable)

fs.watch interface backed by kqueue, inotify, and ReadDirectoryChangesW (Igor Zinkovsky, Ben Noordhuis)
add dns.resolveTxt (Christian Tellnes)
Remove legacy http library (Ben Noordhuis)
child_process.fork returns a...

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Anarchy in the UK

Tagged: anarchy, gifs, kids, ouch, tea Submitted by: Unknown

Clowning Around

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The Corliss Resolution

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Dog Welcoming

Tagged: army guy, dogs, gifs, heartwarming, soldier, sundog Submitted by: Unknown

Rat’s Death Wish

Tagged: bravery, dogs, gifs, rats, sundog, wtf Submitted by: Unknown

Keeping Googlebot Happy Revisited

I stumbled upon an older blog post I wrote a couple of years back discussing the advantages of keeping your site fast, specifically so Google can crawl it efficiently to keep their index as fresh as possible. I loaded up Google's Webmaster Tools to see...

You Are Traffic

Steve’s dent

Short URL: http://farukat.es/p612

Wait Was that a No or a Yes?

Tagged: answers, art, Art Basel 2010, Markus Raetz, mindwarp, no, yes Submitted by: TSGIGORVia: www.youtube.com

Steve

I was sitting in an office as news started coming in yesterday that Steve Jobs had passed away. Shocked, I verified the news, paused speechless for a moment, shared it with my wife in astonishment, and worked on. I worked hard and finished designing a ...

School Us Awesome One

Neil Patrick Harris is the man, man.
Tagged: gifs, graph, Neil Patrick Harris, sad but true Submitted by: fareon

Integrated IAM Policy Generator

You can now create custom IAM (Identity and Access Management) policy documents from the IAM tab of the AWS Management Console. You can use a custom policy document to gain access to a number of advanced IAM features such as limiting access by user age...

Oracle works on Dtrace for Linux (The H)

The H reports on Oracle's plans to bring DTrace to (Oracle) Linux. "There is no word on what the Linux port of 'Dynamic Tracing Facility' (also known as Dtrace) will look like, but it is considered a major function in newer versions of Solaris. A blog ...

Bundler 1.1.rc is out!

Bundler 1.1.rc is out!: If you do any work with Ruby and Rails, then you’ve (probably) grown to love Bundler, an awesome gem that resolves the dependencies for all your other gems.

The bundler team has been working hard on a new release, and they’...

modusops:

NYC Sunset.

modusops:

NYC Sunset.

nevver:

DesignBoom

nevver:

DesignBoom

What a Delightful Song!

Tagged: bongos, cute, gifs, music, spider Submitted by: UnknownVia: www.reddit.com

An Easy Way to Build Scalable Network Programs

Suppose you’re writing a web server which does video encoding on each file upload. Video encoding is very much compute bound. Some recent blog posts suggest that Node.js would fail miserably at this.
Using Node does not mean that you have to write a ...

Cheer Squad

Tagged: back flip, cheer leaders, FAIL, gifs, ouch

Alles ruikt naar chocola: foto’s van de lancering

(helemaal onderaan alle thumbnails, daarboven een toelichting op de avond en hier alle foto’s in een gallery:



Lancering 'Alles ruikt naar chocola'








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Full Stack CakePHP Deployment With Chef and Capistrano - Part 1

This text is the first in a long series to correct an extremely disastrous talk at CakeFest 2011.

Sysadmin Sunday 50

This is Sysadmin Sunday, a post of interesting links from throughout the previous week.

What good Web Developers should know about sending E-mail
MySQL.com Sold for $3k, Serves Malware
Debunking the NoSQL Hype from Oracle: “Go for the tried and true...