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A Healthy Mind in a Healthy Body

Sit mens sana in corpore sano./
One often overlooked asset that you badly need in order to be productive (or sometimes just to be) is your body. If you get ill or die, your performance may drop dramatically.
Maybe one of the reasons so many people neglect their health is because it takes quite a long time [...]

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Attack vectors deja vu

I have to keep an eye on the IT security news. You know, “security is a process not product”. Just recently, Linux kernel vulnerability CVE-2009-1337 caught my attention. This even has l33t in its name The more interesting part is, of course, not the CVE number but the attack vector used in [...]

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IO performance monitoring

If you can measure it, you can manage it. I’m a measurement, monitoring, analysis and statistics addict
That’s why I’ve always wanted to be able to monitor the IO load of the Linux systems I’ve worked with. While there are well established monitoring and accounting tools for the CPU usage – both system wide [...]

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