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Security, networks and the occasional questionable decision, mostly with the Philippines in view.
[Graham Cluley] LostPass: after the LastPass hack, here’s what you need to know
LostPass: after the LastPass hack, here’s what you need to knowDo you use the LastPass password manager? Did you know they suffered a data breach, and that your passwords may be at risk? You do now. Here’s what you need to know.Graham CluleyGraham Cluley
The Benefits of Virtualizing Network Appliances on Proxmox Virtual Environment
Virtualization has become a popular solution for businesses looking to improve their IT infrastructure and reduce costs. Proxmox Virtual Environment (VE) is a powerful open-source platform that allows users to easily create and manage virtual machines (VMs) and containers. One of the major benefits of virtualizing network appliances on Proxmox VE is increased flexibility and scalability. With Proxmox VE, you can quickly and easily create, clone and migrate VMs, allowing you to easily scale and
News: Riot Games takes over Southeast Asia region, ends Garena deal
Riot Games takes over Southeast Asia region, ends Garena dealRiot Games fans in Southeast Asia will need to transfer their account as the American company’s distribution deal with Garena falls though. - November 10, 2022 - WIN.ggWIN.gg This is changing quite a few things!
GetaFIX; Philippines' first carrier-neutral internet exchange now peering at IPC Sucat and ePLDT Vitro Makati!
Recently, GetaFIX has expanded into two more data centers; IPC Sucat in Parangaque and ePLDT Vitro Makati. GetaFIX was established in 2018 with a goal of bringing high quality CDN connectivity and peering to ISPs in the Philippines, thus improving the speed and redundancy of internet services for all Filipinos. We are carrier neutral and operate on standard pricing models within three data centers in the Luzon region.
Debian: IXGBE Driver - Allow unsupported SFP+ Modules on Intel X520 Cards
The Server hardware we use for Proxmox deployments often has Intel X520 (ixgbe driver) or X710 (i40e driver) cards installed. These provide for several SFP+ ports required for 10 Gigabit connectivity. Enterprise vendors such as DELL and Intel provide compatibility lists for SFP transceivers that are supported by their network adapters. Often times adapter firmware requires specifically encoded modules, preventing any unsupported modules from being initialized. One way to work around this probl
Ubiquiti Networks UniFi AP AC-Pro - Heat Distribution
During a deployment this week I was wondering how much actual heat is dissipated by a UniFi AP AC-Pro.
GetaFIX: Connect your BBS, Cable TV Operator or Fiber Optic ISP to a Philippines based Internet Exchange!
Hi folks, meet #GetaFIX; the #CarrierNeutral #InternetExchange in #Luzon! It's backed by world-class support and offers all the amenities you'd expect of a standardized #IXP such as geo-redundant #BGP #RouteServers, a #LookingGlass implementation, an #AS112 blackhole service, free #PrivateVLANs for your #BilateralPeerings as well as a web based #CustomerPortal and a public #PeeringMatrix! All plans come at a #FixedPrice and internet exchange points are available in the following data centers;
Tip: Re-Encode SFP/SFP+, XFP and QSFP+/QSFP28 Transceivers from FiberStore using the FS Box!
Hi folks! getting your SFP transceivers from FS.com (fiber store)? Did you know that there's an easy way to re-encode the EEPROM of those transceivers to make them work with gear from different vendors? Check out the FS Box! No hacking involved and it works in combination with a cloud hosted service and a software driver currently only available on Windows platforms. I've tried it on Fedora Linux 28 using VirtualBox, Windows 10 and USB Passthrough and it's working like charm! It allows you to
Cost-efficient Virtual Machine Clustering with Proxmox VE for SMEs and Enterprises
Proxmox VE is a web based, open source hardware virtualization platform based on Debian GNU/Linux. It allows for virtualizing unmodified guests using the kernel based virtual machine (KVM) which is the native implementation of hardware assisted virtualization that's embedded into the linux kernel. In addition, Proxmox VE also supports Linux containers (LXC) being an OS level type of virtualization. Hardware assisted virtualization requires special support of a machine's processor commonly known
Linux Ecosytem in Limbo over Controversy surrounding Newly Adopted Code of Conduct
For the past few weeks I been living under a rock being exhausted from dealing with family matters and project related work. So I've just started to catch up with the rest of the world when I've learned about the controversy surrounding Linus Torvalds, the founder of the Linux project and the previous adoption of a new - as I find - quite political code of conduct (CoC). In relation to that Linus has announced to be taking some time off the project (!) to develop a better understanding of human
