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sparkiegeekon A Thank-You Note to the Hacker News Community from Ubuntu

Perhaps you're not aware that Canonical already do this and publish results at https://certification.ubuntu.com/ ?

sparkiegeekon Vector is now called Riot

Anyone else reminded of https://xkcd.com/927/ ?

sparkiegeekon Super Fast Local Workloads with LXD, ZFS, and Juju

Oh? I'm sure 16.10 will be great but there's a bunch of things coming in 16.04 which have me excited!

sparkiegeekon Metal as a Service

You should probably start with Juju docs on setting up an environment with MAAS as a "provider"

https://juju.ubuntu.com/docs/config-maas.html

sparkiegeekon Metal as a Service

Where are you getting the stats that majority of the cloud is RHEL/CentOS?

Published stats [1] show that Ubuntu dominates cloud deployments.

[1] http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1318

sparkiegeekon Metal as a Service

To be honest, Intel's AMT is a bit of a PITA, but the Orange Boxes were assembled to have some resemblance to real racks of hardware. So remote out of band power control is essential.

There's something quite magical about using Juju and MAAS on the Orange Boxes and seeing the LEDs light up as you scale out a service (e.g. juju add-unit -n 5 nova-compute).

sparkiegeekon Metal as a Service

One key difference is that MAAS is free as in beer and free as in speech. It's great for private clouds.

sparkiegeekon Metal as a Service

Along with Juju, this is a key technology which (literally) powers the Ubuntu Orange Box - http://www.ubuntu.com/cluster‎

sparkiegeekon The Internet is a surveillance state

Is there a subscription list you use to increase privacy or are these custom filters?

sparkiegeekon Measuring fragmentation in Android

Would be interesting to see a comparison to iOS - are there figures available?

sparkiegeekon Poll: What database does your company use?

LDAP as a hierarchical data store with same flat schema for each node containing application specific serialised Python dictionaries.

Oh, and PostgreSQL for reporting.

sparkiegeekon Sony Apologizes for Online Data Breach

Key points from the conference summarized on reddit's /r/gaming: http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/h1anz/key_points_fro...

sparkiegeekon The Readers of Hacker News: 86% male

100% when you look at data for UK, though it appears we're less educated - 23% "High School"

sparkiegeekon This link says it's from YouTube but it's not

The redirect I found on https://www.google.com seems like it did have a whitelist. Luckily youtube.com was on the whitelist, so I could re-use the exploit from there. So even whitelists aren't totally safe (and YouTube isn't using the redirect for known friendly sites - seems to be more for tracking purposes).

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1259844 for the google.com URL

sparkiegeekon This link says it's from YouTube but it's not

https://www.google.com/accounts/CheckCookie?continue=http%3A...

This link looks like it's from google.com but it's not.

Incidentally I think this only works if you're currently signed in to a Google account, oh yeah it's bouncing from an HTTPS address as well.