Back after a short relapse and a move to a new server.
A few links to stuff that’s interested us of late:
- Secure password management using CPM. I’ve used ccrypt in the past along with a liberal sprinkle of grep and some wrappers in bash.
- Does the gmail train ever stop? Offline Gmail (along with some interesting hax0r vectors) and a hint that they might be trying PGP in Gmail. How nice would it be if my mum could get PGP email sigs without having to worry about all the nerdy details?
- One of Google Chrome’s natty features is DNS Prefetching and now, if you don’t mind having to login first, you can get a DNS prefetch extension for firefox too. We’ve been getting good mileage out of OpenDNS too of recent. It whips the ass of our (otherwise, pretty savy) isps offering. Our only niggle is that OpenDNS proxy google search pages which is vexing. That said, register a free account and you can customise the DNS settings for your ip address and, I believe, disable the google proxying.
- The consistently enjoyable High Scalability blog has a post about Facebook’s Cassandra. Yet another distributed data store solution, but on the surface, looks like it may be a decent contender.
