As part as my efforts of reducing the management overhead of multiple systems – much like the rest of the world – I am in a long process of migrating all my workload from virtual machines, each dedicated to a single or a small number of related services, to a container-based solutions. While containers are…
I have had recently the pleasure and challenge of setting up VPN server for mobile devices on top of Linux. the common method to do so would be by using IPSec + L2TP, as these are to more common methods mobile devices allow, and it should work quite fine with other types of clients (although…
ISPs which enforce QoS limitations suddenly, without alerting the customer, are abusing their force. QoS limitation is not a bad thing, from the ISP’s point of view, but changing the customer deal without notifying him seems to me to be unfair. This is a recipe for a QoS workaround. Ingredients: One fast Internet connection which…
In the long forgotten days of NT4, there was not Unicode. In these older days, one could use English, and the language the server machine was predefined for. In our poor and sad case, English alone. This is a story of a poor filer, member of a multi-site NT4 domain, which, due to latency and…
