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Backup success, archive integrity, and application recovery are three claims.

I don't think most people appreciate how big of a deal self-driving cars will be when it is commercially available.

I have a remote storage server in a colocation with 100s of TB of space.

It's probably not a good idea to completely turn off bash history, one of the reasons bash history exists as a reference to mistakes or useful past commands you can't recall.

Not all hell is made of fire, some are made of an abyss with no way of pulling yourself out of it.

For the longest time (still is to a smaller extent), gif ruled the interweb of video-based memes.

One of my biggest pet peeves is clutter.

LPN (Application-Layer Protocol Negotiation) is a TLS extension that allows an efficient way to negotiate encrypted traffic between the browser and the server.

According to Google, the whole point of AMP is for mobile users to have fast access to websites without users having to worry about large data usage or load time.

If you are running a Web App and you are storing user passwords, it is very easy to get things horribly wrong, it's better to use third-party sign-in services like Facebook, Twitter or Google.

Recently I have been spending an unholy amount of time learning a new programming language and improve my existing knowledge with lots of practice.

I have been recently on a binge mode in converting all my sites to https.

For you to be a decent web application developer, you need to have a good grasp of HTML, CSS (has frameworks), PHP, MySQL/MariaDB/Postgres/SQLite (or frameworks/language like PHP-Laravel, ruby on rails, Python/Django/flask - I don't want to even list a la…

In order to use the internet, we need a DNS server to resolve domain names to IP address, in the early days of the internet you DNS server address all most always used to be your ISP’s DNS server.

I have to remotely log in to a lot of servers quite often, which is why I have setup several ssh related aliases on `~/.bash_profile` (Mac) or `~/.profile` (Ubuntu) to automate my login process so that I could simply type `sg` on the terminal and get logg…

IT certifications will probably help you weed out the absolutely hopeless to the probably hopeful prospect – and that’s about it.

There was a time when I was naive enough to think that there are tools you can use – TOR, VPN, Opensource Operating Systems, encryption – that would protect us from nefarious state players, organizations and black hats.

5 years in itself is not a long time, but on internet time scale 5 years is not too savvy.

There is a difference between deleting files using a windows manager GUI and deleting files using CLI.

I like to do my work in small timed chunks.

I am a productive junkie for as long as I can remember.

youtube-dl is a python based command line video downloader that just works.

When I wrote my previous article on Cloudflare, and how it craps all over my daily internet browsing and possibly millions of others, most of the responses I got was skepticism with a healthy dose of justification.

This is a follow-up from my earlier post on how hard it is to run an ISP business.

Even though I have Ads on this blog, I have absolute disgust towards online ads in general, in its current form.

After reading Arstechnica’s excellent article on internet infrastructure and what goes on behind the scene to bring the internet to your home, I have a newfound respect for all the ISPs I have used in the past and the ISP business I am running now.

As far as package manager goes apt-get is perhaps the most popular and well-liked package managers out there.

It’s bad enough that I am a light sleeper.

Follow up: Cloudflare: Making the internet a little bit faster – for a select group of people CloudFlare is a very helpful service if you are a website owner and don’t want to deal with separate services for CDN, DNS, basic DDOS protection and other (supe…

I recently did a Hackintosh build after fiddling with the idea for more than 3-4 years.

Sometimes a newer version of popular packages may no longer support older config options.

One of my client’s requirement is to have a Ubuntu server with a Desktop Environment.

As of this writing, Ubuntu Edge funding have reached $5.6M out of their audacious $32M goal.

I spend an unhealthy amount of time on Reddit and I keep telling myself that the time spent on Reddit is not wasted since I am learning something new almost every day.

After a month’s worth of prism related revelations and discussions, something just clicked inside me and I realized that we are fighting the wrong battle by trying to take extraordinary measures in an effort to protect our data.

How does a typical person use the internet?

I usually don’t review VPS or hosting services, they stopped becoming a novelty a long time ago.

There has been a lot of talks recently about WordPress sites being under brute-force attacks on admin login form by dumb bots.

Like everyone else my first reaction to Flickr’s new storage plan was jaw-dropping happiness.

Over the years, we have all come to love and depend on dropbox for its seamless and no-nonsense sync and backup feature.

This is how my custom server header looks like (Server:R2D2) – curl -I www.slashgeek.net HTTP/1.1 200 OK Content-Type: text/html Last-Modified: Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT Expires: Sun, 12 May 2013 02:55:30 GMT Pragma: public Cache-Control: max-age=3600,

There seems to be a lot of misplaced anger towards Google for deciding to cancel Reader.

Good Artists Copy, Great Artists Steal. – Steve Jobs Anyone who spent a reasonable amount of time with both OS X and Ubuntu with its recent iteration of design changes (aka Unity), can see without doubt the OS X design features and elements that have been…

I don’t like the idea of relying on VPN specific services for your VPN needs.

Hear me out, before you nerd out and get all defensive about Google Glass.

I can safely say in the last 12 years or so I never had a computer virus (or malware) on my Windows computer.

During my freelance sysadmin days, my biggest annoyance was clients renting really high-end dedicated servers for sites that were serving a measly few thousand users a month.

In today’s world, there are legitimate reasons to be concerned about your privacy and your data.

As a web developer, I know the pains of trying to work around kinks to support all variations of all major browsers to have a unified look, feel, and performance.

You have probably read it a thousand times how year X will the year of the Linux desktop, only to know deep down that this will be repeated next year by some tech blog/pundit with some news on how awesome Linux is doing in the desktop market because of so…