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Recently I needed to connect a Rackspace subnet to an AWS subnet. Our VPN software of choice in Rackspace was Strongswan, and for Amazon...

A few days ago I needed to generate key pairs for an Amazon account again. I thought I'd write down the process. There are two key...

A few days ago I arrived home a little late, missing supper. As I approached the door, I could hear Victor and Anna bouncing in the fron...

I finally took the plunge and upgraded my MacBook Pro to Lion. Technically I went to 10.7.2. The immediate motivation was to upgrade to...

According to the Amazon Web Services Blog , they currently have 762 billion objects in Amazon S3. That's impressive. The popularity...

I spent some time this weekend rebuilding the family file server, which is a Linux box. The last time I rebuilt it was several years ago...

I don't like the idea that every page on the web with a Like button will tell Facebook that I've browsed to that page. But at le...