Yet another encrypted backup way

Problem: you have a shared remote backup space and you want to backup sensitive data from your servers There is a plenty of options out there, in my situation I have a Linux server with shell access where to take files and a shell account on BSD with 75GB of space where to put these files. I need to keep a daily copy of everything for a week. After some thinking and experimenting here is what I’ve got with...

accidentally rm -fr /etc

If you ( better not you, but **** happens) remove your /etc on redhat/centos 5 and you still have an open remote root shell, here is what you have to do to make sure you still can reach the host (I wouldn’t write it if I had a backup): 0. Say f***********ck, take a deep breath and don’t panic 1. Make a prayer ( whatever god will do, even Einstein, nobody hears you screaming anyway ) 2. Restore...

Firefox mobile updated rc1

Fennec rc1 on n900 Still slow like … Well, slower than...

routing 10Gbps at $5000 hw?

Intel/Vyatta claim they did it That’s the way it all went down. And now, repeating history, Intel has published an earth-shattering benchmark using Vyatta on a single-CPU Nehalem server. The result? Line-rate 20-Gigabit bi-directional networking performance from a class of servers widely available from Dell, HP, IBM etc — servers that cost less than $5,000. This is precisely the hardware dynamic that...

Getting Asterisk to speak with Google Calendar

The need: A client of mine wants his Asterisk based PBX to be aware of office hours. Simple stuff, he wants the callers not to ring the phones and not to listen the music when there is nobody to answer the call. Problem: The office has 09:00-13:00, 14:00-19:00/Mon-Fri opening hours and this is the easy part because these rarely change and are “fixed”. What about extra ? Holidays? meetings? corporate...