BOA ATMs are the second best thing since sliced bread. They can count bills and read checks (and print check images out on thermal paper!), but for god’s sake, why are they so slow? It’s as if every time you press a button it fires up a dial up modem in back and executes a MySQL query over 9600 baud.
I appreciate the tech in the machine, but the implementation of the communication architecture must be horrific…
The Humble University.
The humble tech department at the humble university.
UPDATE: This article shows that DNS Made Easy has the fastest response time of all managed DNS solutions available.
I saw the DNSMadeEasy.com free trial and jumped on it. We used them at my job this past summer, so I had experience with their API (which tragically isn’t available to the low-end tier…alas).
Continue reading DNS Made Easy: DNS Service that isn’t terrible!
Wanted to make sure my server was secure, so I was updating IPTables config. I was also curious what would happen if I configured my firewall over SSH. I was correct: my SSH connection was instantly dropped. Time for a walk to the other side of campus to hit the reset button.
UPDATE: So I managed to clear out everything and reconfigure IPTables. Seems like a program that would be cool to learn more about (re: setting up my own NAT router with a linux computer and two NICs). Overall, I’ve simply allowed all outgoing and only allowed incoming on ports that I’m actually using (just in case some random thing is running that I’m not aware of).
Of course I’m still vulnerable to the reverse SSH tunnel…
True, it’s not open source, but I’ve just discovered that my cyberpower UPS has available a set of linux binaries for a daemon and management of said daemon.
Quite cool, in my opinion. Continue reading CyberPower UPS with Linux Binaries!
I’ve been doing a lot of work with Linux (specifically CentOS) and I have the following words of wisdom for new Sysadmins: