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I really like the Unifi - i've run it for a while and not had a single problem.

I do have a big gripe though - it has a hard wired limit of 4x SSIDs for each access point.

I run a number of VLANs, each with their own SSID - and it means I can only have the Unifi provide my main ones and have to run an old Netgear router on different wifi channels to provide the rest :(

I've never quite understood why my cheap routers running OpenWRT can seemingly have unlimited (or at least a lot of) SSIDs, where an expensive Unifi will only provide 4.

It sounds more like a new product, new direction than Vagrant 2.0....

The hn code doesn't seem to work?

Nifty - useful for quick testing tasks.

The concerns though are the sustainability - if instances are paid for and not free tier + bandwidth, it could not be around for long, particularly if it gets abused.

Also, privacy/security - there is no guarantee that instances are destroyed/erased after use and won't get assigned to someone else or logged into. Probably don't want to put private code/IPR on there just in case.

For quick commands (eg, testing a firewall setup from the outside or checking something from an external ip) then it's very cool indeed.

What's he using to benchmark that? - anyone know?

What's the best benchmark tool for drives and/or network shares?

Is there anywhere to register to receive more information on your book when you get nearer?

Does anyone know technically how LXC compares to OpenVZ?

I would think he meant what you said.... symlinks in the repo doesn't sound a good idea.

I always ran Ubuntu for Desktops and Debian (stable) on servers, but lately i've used Ubuntu for some servers simply because the packages are more up-to-date...

If you don't run ssh on port 22, it's been proved that it receives a lot less outside login attempts and stops the logs filling up with login failures apart from anything else.

It's good practise first login as another user and then gain root priv's. This is auditable and if your sshd won't allow root login's, the can't be brute forced directly.

Is there any performance impact of having so many rules?

I've seen a number of conference organisers complain of this so it must happen often!

I hope he securely erased the data rather than just deleting it, otherwise it might not be just the FBI who have potentially got a copy...

Thanks - i'll look into this

The problem with Google Analytics is that I need the data to be tied to the user_id of the logged in user.

Yes, I use this but the problem is still that if you fire large amounts of traffic at it then you get a lot of these building up and still create a bottleneck.

This is something I considered but i'm unsure of the best way to store these so they are retrievable without looking up the key.

I tried that but didn't get any replies at all....

I'm probably looking at up to a few hundred req/sec.

Thanks for the advice.

Thanks - much to consider!

I can't use Google Analytics because the data needs to be tied to the user id of the logged in user.

There is an excellent Podcast available where Steve Gibson (security expert) talks about LastPass and it's internals - audio and transcript are here: http://www.grc.com/sn/sn-256.htm

It's worth noting for anyone new finding this that she is discontinuing maintainership of this and handing it over to the jQuery project.

Full details here: http://blog.rebeccamurphey.com/the-future-of-jquery-fundamen...

I thought they added something in iOS 3 that did encrypt the phone and that's why the erase is so fast now?

I also assume that if you put a passcode on with the 'erase after 10 incorrect attempts' setting that this would be permanently erased if they get your passcode wrong 10 times...?

I've not read it personally but i've seen recommendations for: Professional JavaScript for Web Developers, 2nd Edition by Nicholas C. Zakas and published by Wrox.

Another very useful feature of Rackspace is their iPhone & iPad app for managing servers on the move.

It can even provision new servers using Puppet or Chef.

Good comparison.

It would be nice to see Rackspace add in firewall control, bring their new load balancer platform to the UK and have some control over the mapping of ip addresses (like Amazon's Elastic IP's).

and even better - have the iPad app sync the timeline position with the iPhone app so you can tread your stream on either..

Hope they do an iPad app!

Looks very interesting! - does it sound too good to be true though?