This week in DNS problems
SANS notes a weird DOS atack on different namesevers. People quering for “.” a lot.
Ward wondering what’s going on with the .org nameservers
And Dries migrating his site.
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Is anybody else confused about Chef ?
Chef absolutely confuses me..
Luke is confused too ..
I’m clearly disappointed that someone who has been a high-profile user of Puppet but has never contributed much in the way of code (Ohloh claims 2 commits) would decide to start a whole new project rather than attempt to contribute to Puppet
Now , if you know me a bit you know that reinventing the wheel, or creating identical projects with no clear reasons is something I dislike .
New interesting open Source releases
In case you haven’t noticed them yet ..
MySQL Proxy has a new release and moved it’s public repo to Launchpad.
(Still Launchpad isn’t open source yet .. a matter of time .. but in the meanwhile Jira and Confluence are sadly gaining adoption in the market)
In the devministration area there is a new Puppet module that automagically populates puppet managed machines in Zenoss , I’ve seen different people using Puppet to populate their Nagios configs, but adding Zenoss to the list is new.. so when will we see the Zabbix and Hyperic plugins ?
How to suck at Security
There is this great post over at sans.org Teaching people how to to suck at Security, (actually a reprint of this post
Especially the remarks about security tools ..
On how not to implement them or how to neglect configuring, afterall the default values must be secure enough.
However My favorite
Hire somebody just because he or she has a lot of certifications.
I’d write Vendor Certifications however .. as independent certifications might have some use.. but if I`m looking for a security guy and he starts talking to me about his product certificatins, something is wrong..
On Filesystem Layouts
Wouter blogged about his favourite Laptop filesystem layout , just one filesystem , and some geeks think that’s a bad idea.
Actually I can understand Wouter not wanting to have different /usr/ /var or other partitions on his laptop , the 20Mb left and 300Mb right you loose on different partitions are exactly what you want to use on your laptop, however isolating partitions also has it’s benefits
My setup looks similar to this :\
Zenoss, "mail" problem ?
Funny how people call clear and obvious DNS problems a
“mail” problem.
Drupal Multimedia .. reviewed.
After reviewing the Zenoss book , Packt asked me if I would be interested in reviewing one of their fresh Drupal books, they first suggested a book on Theming but but I opted for the [MultiMedia by Aaron Winborn one as Theming really isn’t my cup of tee](http://www.packtpub.com/create-multimedia-website-with-drupal/book)
It took me a while to get the book finished , mostly because of other priorities that kept popping up and being ill for the first week of the year .. but I finally managed
Tux is Tasty
Found in a local bakery …
Drupal Twitter module
As I don’t really use twitter apart to microblog but rather as an Instatn Messaging tool (why those people don’t use IRC or Jabber remains a mistery to me wheel.reinvent :( )
I figured I could abuse it to announce posts on my blog, lots of people seem to be doing this so there had to be an easy way to auto publish them ..
The wonderful Drupal community seemed to have the same idea and therefore created the Twitter Module
How popular is an Open Source project ?
There is a really easy way to figure out …
Look at the size of of the devrooms , if at all , a project gets at Fosdem
It’s really interresting to see the Embedded room move to a 500 seat room which it really needed when the first openMoko talk was held there in a previous edition.
The FDO , Drupal, Mozilla, Centos/Fedora and Suse rooms stay in similar size rooms as last year.. But it seems lik the BSD and PostgreSQL room which was pretty crowded moved to a bigger location.