This idea hit me this morning. Assuming you have a decent connection at home (not ADSL or Cable that is), Amazon S3 (or Jungle Disk) makes a pretty nice back-bone...

To increase the reliability of our backups at WireLoad, we wanted to utilize S3. Obviously we couldn’t just send our backups to S3 without encrypting them, so GnuPG was part...

Last night we rolled out a new version of Chronicle.IM to the production servers. The product is not quite ready yet, but you can sign up with your email address...

Yesterday I posted an article on how to monitor Apache and PostgreSQL with Monit. After setting that up I was amazed how simple and flexible Monit was, so I moved...

Monit is a great little utility that monitors your daemons. If a daemon fails, Monit will start the daemon it will automatically restart the process. It comes in very handy...

If you are new to SEO, or just want to learn more about SEO, Matt Cutts and a few colleagues did a really good presentation on Google I/O where they...

Last week I published a new version of my ZoneMinder Virtual Appliance. The virtual appliance is great if you want to easily deploy ZoneMinder without having to spend time setting...

Last week I launched ZoneMinder VA 0.2. Unfortunately there is an issue with the image that prevents it from loading properly into VMware Server 2. The root of the problem...

I just recorded a screencast of Red iGone in action. The video is a bit rough (in particular the audio), but I hope it gets the message across. Enjoy.

In the last few weeks I had to set up a few new Linux servers. Since Ubuntu is my preferred Linux dist in recent years, 10.04 LTS was a natural...