Decade of Storage: Analysis of Data Costs

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Yesterday, I noticed this interesting tidbit from Rackspace calculating the cost of data over the last Decade of Storage. Of course, there a few bumps in the road that made me chuckle. Interestingly, in the last couple of years it plots the cost from $0.40/GB to $0.06/GB. This ties together a whole bunch of things that I have thought about over the last couple of years. First, now is a wonderful time to be a user buying storage for personal audio and video. Second, regular people are going to have to start to learn data management strategies. Finally, this cost isn’t even close to what it is for me in my data center. It is easy for us to celebrate the cheap cost of raw storage while loosing track of the total cost of ownership for data. I will elaborate.

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Passion for the Science of Computing

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I recently read an article called “Computer. Science. Paradox?” by Ben Rockwood which pointed me to a phenomenal project called “Great Principles of Computing.” The project’s founding principle is that Computing, not Computers are the center of our study and that the Science of Computing is, indeed, a natural science. This project touches on so many issues in the teaching of Computer Science and how we index our knowledge. It also provides solutions to so many frustrations I felt while working my way through the undergraduate Computer Science curriculum at the University of Akron.

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Systems Administrator’s Lab: OpenSSH MaxStartups

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Background When performing automation using OpenSSH/Cron you will inevitably run into concurrency problems. Recently, we had a problem where one machine was receiving 21 ssh connection within one second. This is because the standard cron daemon only has a granularity of one minute. In this article, I am going to quickly elaborate on how we

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Amazon EC2 & Rackspace Cloud Servers

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Background Recently, I had the chance to work on a couple of projects that took me into the cloud. The first project had me setting up Eucalyptus on KVM. The second had me building out an infrastructure in Rackspace Cloud Servers. This has given me some hands on insight into the problems that are facing

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OpenSSH and Keychain for Systems Administrators

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This tutorial provides guidance on best practices and configuration of OpenSSH/Keychain, but also includes some important troubleshooting techniques for which documentation is somewhat lacking. These techniques took me several years to develop and I have tried to compile them here in one concise post so that others do not have to suffer through the arduous learning process

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Cleveland Python Group (Clepy) December 20th (Rescheduled, again)

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Background CLEPY will be held on Monday December 13 at LeanDog. The meeting will start about 6:30. Nick Barend will give a short introduction to Erlang: a whirlwind introduction to the language basic interactive shell usage concurrency primitives (spawn, messaging sending, message receiving) TCP communication This will be a combination of discussion and hands-on sessions.

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System’s Administrator’s Lab: Testing

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Today, I got an email from the Fedora package manager, Red, who let me know that there was a problem with Petit. I don’t think he knew it, but it was actually my fault that the whole thing got screwed up, so I felt kind of bad. Well, to make a long story short, when

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