This is an old video from 2015 when I was trying to cross the Atlantic (Frankfurt – Cancun) and my flight got an engine problem after just 2 hours in the flight. What you can see in the video is the plane dumping fuel so we can land. I think there was some strange smelling… Read More »
Having a lot of issues with the blog, especially with the page load time got me thinking that I need to do a change. There are several articles on the internet on how to speed up your WordPress blog. Here is my take on it. STEP 1: Find a good host. Very important to have… Read More »
I tried to pay some bills at my bank ATM and this was the message that was displayed on the ATM: Hard to pay the bills when the ATM is shutting down 🙂 And yes is a Windows XP, the best Windows up to date 🙂 Banks know their safe technology. [paypal_donation_button]
Google puts another nail in the coffin for SHA-1. They already moved from using SHA-1 on their products but there are still a lot of places where is used by default. In a post on the Google Online Security Blog Announcing the first SHA1 collision Google researchers claim that they have a good way of… Read More »
There is an interesting case of failing technology due to an unimplemented feature. See the following mail list thread for the original post. Basically if you deploy DRBD and one of the endpoints is a vmware virtual machine: – when trying to mount a newly created etx4 file-system over the LVM from the drbd device… Read More »
The EPRS (European Parliamentary Research Service) prepared an in-depth analysis of blockchain and published an interesting report. Take a look at the pdf: How blockchain technology could change our lives [paypal_donation_button]
This is an interesting API to process card payments from your web or Android applications BlueSnap API. I really like when gems like this start to be available. You can spin up your card processing side of the business in minutes. Another interesting german start-up is the The Open Bank Project. Their open source API… Read More »
This is the kind of tutorials I like to distribute. Building a vSphere 6.5 Home Lab The above is a very well written tutorial on how to deploy VSphere on a home lab system. In the tutorial they use an Intel NUC but a HP Microserver GEN8 is even better. Take a look and have… Read More »
Docker starts to look like a competitor to virtualization environments like VMWare VSphere deplyments. In the following knowledge base article Docker Reference Architecture: Docker Datacenter Best Practices and Design Considerations there is a very interesting presentation on how to migrate a datacenter to docker. Docker Datacenter (DDC) is the enterprise container platform from Docker to… Read More »
Another article in the main press (Harvard Business Review) about block-chain. The Truth About Blockchain. A real case presentation about the use case of block-chain technology in healthcare Distributed health 2016 – WarrenBrandeis Finally a nice list of main mistakes that are done when implementing in the real world block-chain technology Top 10 Mistakes in… Read More »