Microsoft to Lauch Amazon EC2 killer? (via @Wired)

Microsoft is now also moving towards “infrastructure-as-a-service” aside from the SAAS solutions and Azure solutions it is already providing.

Will the new functionalities be integrated with the Azure Cloud?

7th of June, we’ll know the answer.

According to Derrick Harris of GigaOm, Microsoft is building an “infrastructure-as-a-service” cloud that provides access to raw virtual servers, and it plans to launch this new service on June 7 at an event in San Francisco. The story provides few details, but it does say that the new service will offer virtual servers running Linux as well as Windows.

Wired

Enough said…. Apple is still smoking hot :)

Enough said…. Apple is still smoking hot :)

furie1335

Testing a Lion

michielbeenen:

After installing OSX Mountain Lion on my Macbook Air yesterday we’ve been doing some tests in the house to see what all the fuss is about.

So far I’ve been mainly looking at the Airplay Mirroring and the new Notification Center that shows at the right top of your OSX desktop.

My Calendar,…

hmmz interesting #OSX #Mountain Lion

michiel.verbis.nl

OpenSource monitoring with Icinga. An installation how-to

Icinga is an enterprise grade open source monitoring, notification and reporting system which keeps watch over a network and any conceivable network resource, notifies the user of errors and recoveries, and generates performance data for reporting. Scalable and extensible, Icinga can monitor complex, large environments across dispersed locations. Icinga is licensed under GPL V2 and is free to use, distribute and modify.

Icinga

Icinga started in 2009 as a fork from Nagios. I 2012 it has proven to be more than a child mimicking its parents. One of the strong points is that configurations, plugins and extensions that were written for Nagios will also work with Icinga because of its backward compatibility.

More information can be found on its website  www.icinga.org

The how-to install description by Falko Timme is a good point to start discovering Icinga within a test environment.

howtoforge.com

Workshop on 8 February 2012, Brussels: Workshop: "Internet Freedom and Security in EU Foreign Policy: The Role of Business."

icts-business-humanrights:

Please be invited to the upcoming workshop “Internet Freedom and Security in EU Foreign Policy: The Role of Business”, jointly organized by the Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET), the Committee on International Trade (INTA) and the Policy Department of the DG for external policies.

…

Very Interesting workshop about ICT, international business and Human Rights.

icts-business-humanrights

Real NetStat 3.1 with IPv6 features

flexbyte:

We are proud to announce the release of Real NetStat. The version 3.1 has the following changes:

  • Added IPv6 connection monitoring.
  • Added IPv6 statistics.
  • Fixed HTML report saving.
  • Fixed copying selected text to the clipboard.
  • Removed the conflict with Sticky Password utility.

Stay tuned!

flexbyte

An easy way to copy your ssh public key to a remote host using ssh-copy-id on OSX

ichiuk:

Here is a good little tip to save you some time uploading your public key to a remote host (tested to work on OSX Lion).

ssh-copy-id copies your key up to a remote host (via ssh with your password) and even assigns the correct permission to home, ~/.ssh, and ~/.ssh/authorized_keys directories for you.

For some reason it doesn’t ship with OSX, but you can just copy it from your remote linux host and it’ll work fine.

First copy ssh-copy-id down from your remote host…

sudo scp user@host.mydomain.com:/usr/bin/ssh-copy-id /usr/bin

Make sure it has execute permissions with…

sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/ssh-copy-id

Upload your key to the remote host (this will ask your for your password)…

ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub user@host.mydomain.com

You should see output like this…

Now try logging into the machine, with "ssh 'user@host.mydomain.com'", and check in:

  .ssh/authorized_keys

to make sure we haven't added extra keys that you weren't expecting.

Hopefully, that’s it. Next time you want to copy your public key up to a new host, you’ll just need to do the final step each time.

If you get the error “/usr/bin/ssh-copy-id: ERROR: No identities found” when you try to copy your key up, it’s basically because it can’t find your local public key file that you’ve specified (~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub in the example above). Have a look in your ~/.ssh/ to see if your public key is there and what the file is called (I’ve seen id_dsa.pub before as well).

ichiuk

Tweede Kamer: geen Russisch roulette met ACTA « Bits of Freedom

De tweede kamer houdt haar poot stijf en geeft Minister Verhagen (EZ) geen mandaad om tijdens de Europese Handels Raad, de Nederlandse inzet te bespreken.

“Overleg met de minister over zijn inzet m.b.t. ACTA […] [kan] uitsluitend […] plaatsvinden indien de onderhandelingsdocumenten openbaar worden gemaakt. Zonder openbaarheid van deze documenten vindt geen overleg op dit punt plaats en is de minister niet gemandateerd door de Kamer om tijdens de Europese Handels Raad de Nederlandse inzet over ACTA te bespreken.“

Meer info via Bits  of Freedom

Integrating Amazon S3 With WordPress

Great Article by @smashingmag about backing up your wordpress database into Amazon’s S3 Cloud.

Via Freenet6 Client gogoc (Arch Linux instructions)
1. Install gogoc with your favorite AUR helper.
% sudo packer -S gogoc
2. Remove the ‘-b’ switch on line 14 of the gogocd service script.
% sudo vim /etc/rc.d/gogocd
3. Start the gogocd daemon.
% /etc/rc.d/gogocd start
4. Ping ipv6.google.com.
% ping6 -c4 -n ipv6.google.com PING ipv6.google.com(2607:f8b0:4001:c01::67) 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 2607:f8b0:4001:c01::67: icmp_seq=1 ttl=50 time=266 ms
64 bytes from 2607:f8b0:4001:c01::67: icmp_seq=2 ttl=50 time=267 ms
64 bytes from 2607:f8b0:4001:c01::67: icmp_seq=3 ttl=50 time=266 ms
64 bytes from 2607:f8b0:4001:c01::67: icmp_seq=4 ttl=50 time=279 ms —- ipv6.google.com ping statistics —-
4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 3004ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 266.395/270.022/279.512/5.506 ms
%
Feel free to add gogocd to your /etc/rc.conf daemons list. Also, you can register an account on Freenet6 (http://gogonet.gogo6.com/page/freenet6-registration) and edit /etc/gogoc/gogoc.conf to connect with this account, instead of connecting anonymously to the tunnel. This will can give you a steady IPv6 address and some of the other Freenet6 features. Via a Free IPv6 Tunnel Broker
1. Register an account at a free IPv6 Tunnel Broker, such as Hurricane Electric (http://tunnelbroker.net/register.php) or SixXS (http://www.sixxs.net/signup/create/).
2. Log in and create a new tunnel on Hurricane Electric or SixXS.
3. Copy the two scripts below, and fill out the server IPv4 and client IPv6 variables with your tunnel information in ipv6_6in4_up.sh. For a more robust, dynamic IPv4 endpoint updating tunnel script specifically for Hurricane Electric Free IPv6 tunnels, see my ipv6_he_up.sh script here: https://gist.github.com/1369204.
4. Run ipv6_6in4_up.sh to create the tunnel, and then ping ipv6.google.com:
% ./ipv6_6in4_up.sh
% ping6 -c4 -n ipv6.google.com
PING ipv6.google.com(2607:f8b0:4001:c01::93) 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 2607:f8b0:4001:c01::93: icmp_seq=1 ttl=56 time=34.6 ms
64 bytes from 2607:f8b0:4001:c01::93: icmp_seq=2 ttl=56 time=34.7 ms
64 bytes from 2607:f8b0:4001:c01::93: icmp_seq=3 ttl=56 time=34.6 ms
64 bytes from 2607:f8b0:4001:c01::93: icmp_seq=4 ttl=56 time=34.9 ms —- ipv6.google.com ping statistics —-
4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 3005ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 34.637/34.747/34.904/0.213 ms
% Welcome to the IPv6 internet!
Disclaimer: Some of the instructions above may require minor tweaks to fit your particular configuration.

mint water: How to Get on IPv6 *Now*

Convinced that IPv6 is worth giving a go on your linux box? Here’s how you can start.

mintwater