…the preferred cipher suite for most Google HTTPS servers is ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA. If you have a client that supports it, you’ll be using that ciphersuite. Chrome and Firefox, at least, support it…
AlternativeTo is a new approach to finding good software. Tell us what application you want to replace and we give you great alternatives, based on user recommendations.
Jolokia is a JMX-HTTP bridge giving an alternative to JSR-160 connectors. It is an agent based approach with support for many platforms. In addition to basic JMX operations it enhances JMX remoting with unique features like bulk requests and fine grained security policies.
via Overview.
Over the past few months we have been making a lot of improvements to our servers to increase the performance, uptime and scalability. Today we have tuned some knobs, shifted some traffic around and achieved 1 million established tcp sessions on a single machine (and with memory and cpu to spare!)
via ONE MILLION!.
An internal Google document from October 2010 provides some information about Google’s strategy for the future of JavaScript. Google will continue to work on improving JavaScript and adding new features to ECMAScript Harmony, but it will also develop a new language called Dash that will try to solve JavaScript’s problems, while offering better performance, the ability “to be more easily tooled for large-scale projects” and better security features.
In the book Lean Thinking, James Womack and Daniel Jones recount a story of stuffing newsletters into envelopes with the assistance of one of the author’s two young children. Every envelope had to be addressed, stamped, filled with a letter, and sealed. The daughters, age six and nine, knew how they should go about completing the project: “Daddy, first you should fold all of the newsletters. Then you should attach the seal. Then you should put on the stamps.” Their father wanted to do it the counterintuitive way: complete each envelope one at a time. They told him “that wouldn’t be efficient!” So he and his daughters each took half the envelopes and competed to see who would finish first.
As long as you have MP4::Info installed
perl -MMP4::Info -MData::Dumper -e 'my $mp4 = new MP4::Info $ARGV[0]; print Dumper($mp4);' YOURFILENAME.mp4
“The CentOS-5.6 Continuous Release CR repository is now available on mirror.centos.org. This repository contains rpms to be included in the next CentOS-5.x release. Because these include security and bugfix updates, we strongly recommend everyone using CentOS-5 install and update their system using this repository.”
via [CentOS-announce] CentOS-5.6 Continuous Release i386 and x86_64.
Particularly useful if you are running Centos and want the latest Apache httpd rpm, fixing the range DoS.
SmartOS incorporates the four most revolutionary OS technologies of the past decade — Zones, ZFS, DTrace and KVM — into a single operating system, providing an arbitrarily observable, highly multi-tenant environment built on a reliable, enterprise-grade storage stack. With the introduction of KVM in SmartOS, you no longer have to give up the power of an enterprise-grade operating system in order to run legacy applications and stacks.
via SmartOS.org.
The Amazon Kindle Cloud Reader Free stashes your Kindle library in your web browser. Built on HTML5, Cloud Reader replicates much of the UI polish customers expect from Amazon’s mobile apps, sans-install. For now, the site only runs in Google Chrome and Apple Safari, but, thanks to Safari’s desktop and mobile flavors, you can read from a MacBook Pro as easily as you can an iPad 2.
