Posts by Greyeye

AWS builds a DNS backstop to allow changes when its notoriously flaky US East region wobbles

during the last outage, IAM log in was disrupted and prevented login, this also affected aws cli sso login.

having DNS console is rather pointless if you cannot login isnt it?

Microsoft's cloudy Windows Virtual Desktop: It fills a gap, but there are plenty of annoyances

Re: Is this where X-Server steps in (for Linux) ?

X11 is never optimised for over the WAN or remote access, RDP have evolved a long way that even on narrow and high latency will work resonably well (I have deployed RDP to users on 200-1000ms latency)

Device redirection (local drive, printers, sound) also not in X11.

if you want to compare X11... why not VNC, Teamviewer, Logmein, etc etc

Re: Incomplete Software

one word "agile"

What a hang up: US big box biz Best Buy kicks Huawei to the curb

Re: Chinese government

>If the reason is security, then a lot of internet traffic will touch some Chinese-branded network equipment which can be loaded with a backdoor slurper.

What makes you think NSA wouldn't load up their backdoor crap on Cisco/Juniper/Qualcomm/Intel/google?

USA forbidden export of high encryption level software until very recently, and legacy still lingers on.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_from_the_United_States

Security? What Security? FBI, US Gov, heck, even UK and AUS gov all thinks Security is EVIL and should be open with "gov only back door" but don't call it back door because its used by gov officials.

IT plonker stuffed 'destructive' logic bomb into US Army servers in contract revenge attack

cannot believe people as smart as a coder, think they can hide logic bomb in "ANY" code.

Australian money cops gain powers to regulate cryptocurrency

Re: Regulation? How?

you cannot regulate foreign exchanges, or crypto only changes, but for the exchanges where they deal with fiat currencies, tighter regulation may apply.

Global IPv4 address drought: Seriously, we're done now. We're done

Re: IPv6 usage soaring?

Many mobile carriers are migrating to ipv6 as private IPs cannot handle the sheer number of smartphones, IoT connecting to their network. These smartphones could indeed making connection to ipv6 ready servers natively.

Amazon's cloudy desktops now tiptoe across hot sand

running VDI in-house is a costly business. VDI license (Vmware or Citrix), hypervisors (yes another licenses), super fast SAN (1 VM can demand over 1000 IOPS during boot and busy period), and of course, file server with profiles and so on.

this isnt to compete with plain old desktop fleets in the office, but to compete with VDI deployments out there that has outgrown or sick of upscaling for the performance.

US citizens crash Canadian immigration site after Trump victory

Re: How can any decent voter

People voted for change, not because they're racists, haters or bigots. People who have been left out, cornered, and losing job that they had for decades are marching out and voted for a change.

Well educated, who has a decent job and some who has flexibilities to move from one job to other (most modern educated job holders) see Trump as another populist, but for ppl who has been left out and frustrated at the current situation, it is clearly a cry out for a change.

Unfortunately, real change ppl want, will be slow and painful.

#Censusfail Australia: Not an attack, data safe, no heads to roll

Re: 260 submissions per second?!?

looks like the system was built on IBM websphere and DB2 backend.

http://www.itnews.com.au/news/ibm-wins-96m-to-host-ecensus-in-2016-397613

with two data connections to IBM data centre.

Queensland council plans own optical fibre network

can council do anything effective?

i pretty much doubt this can be cost effective nor possible, with numerous red tapes, tenders, paperworks, bureaucracy along the way, you end up costing rate payers millions of dollars just to start feasibility analysis.

What do you think its going to happen?

1 Hire expensive over $1000/day consultants, external vendors with their own agenda, project managers who claims they know all yet all they can do is chase others to do work

2 even if real work may begin, external contractors will charge more for the local gov work, its just not cost effective. (reason is because its takes 100s of pages document just to attend a tender, you really need to make $ for gov tender as well)

might as well call optus/telstra to lay cable, it would be cheaper.

Want to hide your metadata? You probably can't

How does a gov going collect metadata when SMTP these days are via TLS and TCP payloads are encrypted ?

Same for SSL/TLS, a browser doesnt even give URL until handshake is complete.

Help Australia's PM and attorney-general to define metadata

DNS != IP

collecting only IP ?

what if..

you hit VPS that shares a single IP and redirect to virtual host by requested host header?

you access from NAT ip (lot of mob, 3g, 4g, and corporate, are behind NAT)

this just gives me another reason not to vote LNP

Amazon Workspaces: A dish best served later

AWS workspace is for an enterprise where considering VDI, not a desktop replacements.

running in-house VDI is quite expensive due to complexity it needs to have rapid deployment of images, fast SAN (as each user will drain 100-200 IOPS during logons) and large RAM on hypervisor farm.

You may not argue why VDI? why not RDS/Citrix XA?, problem is always applications that fails to run under RDS/XA. or apps that perform poorly.

and if you believe its poor performance from where you are, of course it is not meant to be fast for every users from current deployment of US West or US East. For optimal condition, you need sub 100ms to the VMs and/or with WAN Optimisations.

I cant wait for it to be available on Sydney(ap-southeast-2), its going to be interesting.

Re: How much for roll your own on amazon

$35/month will only get you m1.micro

however, on the workspaces machine, for $35, you get nearly 4G ram.

Gillard makes tech key part of re-election bid

Re: She can promise anything

> to deserve this mob of idiots

you have a choice to vote others.

LNP, or ALP isnt only political party in this country.

Trust the cloud with my PRECIOUS? You gotta be joking

have two or more ready...

Having data on the single location is asking for trouble.

Backup to tape and storing to off-site,

Network based off-site backup (aka Cloud backup)

Running over two DCs, (remote sync, DFS-R, RSYNC, etc)

or low level replications done at the storage level.

its not about trust CLOUD providers or not, its how the recovery plan and where YOU save the data. If a cloud provider does not provide good recovery plan, its up to you to select one that does, or deploy data on the additional providers (or store locally)

In Australia, Brisbane, 2011 Jan flood had managed to cause havoc and resulted in massive data losses everywhere. Japan's 2011 earth quake and tsunami and rendered many business near useless.

Yet, Im surprised to see so many ppl believes local premises RAID, SAN, NAS are good enough to data protection.

At work, we backup to the remote network, all VMs are cloned and ready to fire up at remote site as needed.

At home, I use crashplan to backup my photos and images to their sites.