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zaaon TcpKali – Fast multi-core TCP and WebSockets load generator

To give credit where the credit is due: the mascot was created by a great graphical designer - Tatyana Alexandrova (https://twitter.com/Alextanya)

zaaon WebKit based Opera for Android launched in beta

Video preview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wtrZ-Ovtq0

zaaon The Paxos algorithm for consensus in a distributed system

Zookeeper uses its own consensus protocol - ZAB (http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/ZooKeeper/Zab).

zaaon How to set up a mail server on a GNU / Linux system

Web server is installed for the web control panel, which can be disabled afterwards.

I do like step by step guides as they provide a higher level of control, but after you've performed a setup like that 2-3 times, you start to lean towards more automated installs as iredmail or custom written scripts. So why maintain your own scripts when you can start with a ready made package.

zaaon How to set up a mail server on a GNU / Linux system

Install the same in a couple of minutes with http://www.iredmail.org/

zaaon Eric Schmidt: If you can’t use your real name, don’t use Google+

Personally, I just do not understand all the drama around the issue. I absolutely support the idea that a company has exactly the same right to "fire" a customer in the same way as a customer can "fire" the company. Google does not have to offer services to anyone. A customer can accept the terms of service or just move on and choose another provider to express his/her thoughts.

zaaon Oracle Introduces New JSR to Evolve Java Community Process

"a new version of the JCP Process document and a formalized Executive Committee Members' Guide and is expected to be completed and approved within about six months."

What an irony. It will take them half an year to only come up with a process on how to modify the language, when the creators of languages like Go, Clojure, etc can modify a substantial part of their respective language during this time frame.

zaaon Why Paying Bribes Should Be Legal

Basically, this applies to a lot of developing countries (I believe, to Russia, India, Brazil, African countries, etc). USA also has it, but at a bigger scale (think of a politician supporters, the Cenate, etc). Personally, I think bribes in one or another form are just inevitable. It is just a part of human nature.

zaaon Introduction to Category Theory in Scala

Hm, posted link worked just a couple of hours ago. Thank you for the correct one!

zaaon Zappos offers new employees $3000 to quit after a week

Only 902 million. What a shame.

Sorry, could not resist this sarcasm spasm :-)

zaaon Ask HN: How do you secure yourself on public WiFi?

I bought a cheap VPS at linode.com, installed and configured pptpd and set up a PPTP connection to the VPS on my mac (using standard Network Preferences panel). When I need a secure connection I just connect over PPTP to the VPS. This enables pretty secure connection from the place with wireless access to the VPS for all tcp protocols (http, smtp, etc).

zaaon "Hello, world" in Assembly.

Yep, "nasm -f macho hello.s && ld -e _start -o hello hello.o" did the trick for me on Mac OS X 10.6

zaaon How to kill a company's morale in one easy memo

It is just a business, nothing personal :-)

zaaon Ocamlmq: a 1200-line low-key alternative to ActiveMQ and RabbitMQ.

0mq is a great solution. But, as far as I know, it does not support persistent storage, while ocamlmq provides "strong durability guarantees".

zaaon Poll: What bug tracking software do you use?

http://studios.thoughtworks.com/mingle-agile-project-managem...

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