This nightmare scenario is, unfortunately, reality for at least 50 organizations – ones that I’ve been able to uncover – and I’m certain that there are many, many more. Each of these organizations has been a victim of a malicious alteration of their domain information – an alteration that added new machine names to their existing information, and allowed bottom-feeding scam artists to abuse their good reputation to boost the search-engine profile of their drug, app, “personal ad,” or porn sites.
File Sync & Online Backup
File Sync & Online Backup – Access and File Sharing from Any Device – SugarSync.
The most popular plan is the 100GB for $150/year which comes to $1.50/GB/year. It costs around $0.18/GB to transmit and receive in BW costs based upon various datacenter estimates YMMV. The max, 250GB is $1/GB. Thus, a 1T storage requirement would probably be maybe $500/year? That’s just for storage.
Assuming a roundtrip for all data, bandwidth costs can approach $0.35/GB or close to 35% of the yearly cost for the 250G plan and %70 of the yearly cost on my mythical 1T plan.
Cloud Storage Providers
Rackspace “Cloud Files™” is among the most popular and simplest cloud storage solution offered today. Cloud Files™ enables its users to have the ability to store unlimited files and media for content delivery at blazing fast speeds on its Limelight CDN Content Delivery Network. Some of the advantages of Rackspace CloudFiles™ include:
- Rackspace is the largest retail cloud storage provider today.
- Best technical support in the industry 24×7 365 days a year.
- Use as much or as little storage as you need.
- No minimum contract or commitments. Access your files from anywhere. High performance unlimited cloud storage for as little as 15¢/GB.
Another shoutout to Rackspace….
7 Version Control Systems Reviewed
This article reviews some of the top open-source version control systems and tools that make setting up a version control system easy.
via 7 Version Control Systems Reviewed – Smashing Magazine.
I’m leaning towards Subversion or CVS.
Using the OpenVPN Access Server Virtual Appliance VMware Version
OpenVPN Access Server is available as a VMware virtual appliance for deployment on Windows. To use the virtual appliance, you must download the virtual machine and run it with VMware software (such as VMware Workstation, VMware Server, VMware Player or VMware Fusion).
Via Using the OpenVPN Access Server Virtual Appliance VMware Version.
Internet Real Time Lab (IRT)
The Internet Real-Time Lab (IRT) in the Computer Science Department at Columbia University conducts research in the areas of Internet and multimedia services: Internet telephony, wireless and mobile networks, streaming, quality of service, resource reservation, dynamic pricing for the Internet, network measurement and reliability, service location, network security, media on demand, content distribution networks, multicast networks and ubiquitous and context-aware computing and communication.
MigrationTools
The MigrationTools are a set of Perl scripts for migrating users, groups, aliases, hosts, netgroups, networks, protocols, RPCs, and services from existing nameservices (flat files, NIS, and NetInfo) to LDAP.
via MigrationTools.
LDAP Authentication In Linux
This howto will show you howto store your users in LDAP and authenticate some of the services against it. I will not show howto install particular packages, as it is distribution/system dependant. I will focus on “pure” configuration of all componenets needed to have LDAP authentication/storage of users. The howto assumes somehow, that you are migrating from a regular passwd/shadow authentication, but it is also suitable for people who do it from scratch.
LDAP Authentication In Linux | HowtoForge – Linux Howtos and Tutorials.
Sockso – Personal Music Server
Sockso is a free, open-source, personal music server for everyone! It’s designed to be as simple as possible so that anyone with a mouse and some mp3’s can get their friends listening to their music across the internet in seconds!
MediaTomb – Free UPnP MediaServer
MediaTomb is an open source (GPL) UPnP MediaServer with a nice web user interface, it allows you to stream your digital media through your home network and listen to/watch it on a variety of UPnP compatible devices.
MediaTomb implements the UPnP MediaServer V 1.0 specification that can be found on http://www.upnp.org/. The current implementation focuses on parts that are required by the specification, however we look into extending the functionality to cover the optional parts of the spec as well.