 | 2012-01-12 Memebase forever |
| 2012-01-11 Strange squares |
| 2011-12-22 TVV Ondernemingsportaalnl.com zuigt ezel |
| 2011-12-08 Dilbert vs Skype |
| 2011-11-29 The uncanny resilience of bulshytt |
| 2011-11-23 Another silly Trojan attempt |
| 2011-10-29 ACTA is coming our way |
| 2011-10-28 Burgernet in the Netherlands |
| 2011-10-27 Facepalm art |
| 2011-10-26 Do not drag this image |
| 2011-10-22 Off The Grid Challenge |
| 2011-10-12 PI like a boss |
| 2011-10-07 Once upon a time |
| 2011-07-13 Dutch eticket system for trains |
| 2011-07-12 Is Hell exothermic or endothermic |
| 2011-04-27 Optical Illusions |
| 2011-04-19 Odd lyrics |
| 2011-04-16 Band Revival at MON |
| 2011-03-13 Protests in the Middle East and you |
| 2011-03-10 Mac OSX Hotkey for locking your system |
| 2011-02-12 dnspb 0.06 is out |
| 2011-02-08 Would I buy this fridge |
| 2011-02-06 InstaYouth |
| 2011-02-05 The Thinker is back |
| 2011-01-17 Math challenge |
| 2011-01-11 Zero tolerance and zero intelligence |
| 2011-01-05 My interest income in 1991 |
| 2011-01-01 Your horoscope by Eddie |
| 2010-12-22 New York City Tours might be half price for you |
| 2010-12-20 Weather Forecast |
| 2010-12-14 World Economy Collapse explained in 3 minutes |
| 2010-12-13 The Salvation Army and its choice of toys |
| 2010-12-08 Elizabeth thinks highly of me |
| 2010-12-06 Should I trust my government with my data |
| 2010-12-05 Announcing dnspb |
| 2010-12-03 Realistic piechart |
| 2010-11-26 Crossroads 2.71 is out |
| 2010-11-24 8 bit Starwars |
| 2010-11-17 Six to eight black men |
| 2010-11-16 Canada wants backdoors and data and everything |
| 2010-11-11 Autumn storm over the Netherlands |
| 2010-10-08 USA wants backdoors to everything |
| 2010-10-05 Sudoku solver in Perl |
| 2010-10-02 Finally wrote up a Syscheck page |
| 2010-09-28 Neon sign fail |
| 2010-09-27 The Renault Eco Team |
| 2010-09-23 Crossroads 2.68 is out |
| 2010-09-20 How to suppress Flash cookies |
| 2010-09-15 Meanwhile on Facebook |
| 2010-09-09 The Yes Men Fix The World |
| 2010-09-07 ed is not dead |
| 2010-08-26 Installing Perl modules in a non root environment |
| 2010-08-22 Magic self leviation |
| 2010-08-20 Google Chrome does not support offline Gmail |
| 2010-08-19 The number 48 |
| 2010-08-12 Welsh trout mini HOWTO |
| 2010-08-04 Fooling a NetCache proxy into fetching forbidden files |
| 2010-07-30 The world will end on May 21, 2011 |
| 2010-07-28 Hiding or showing a textbox with image animation using JQuery |
| 2010-07-27 Manipulating browser cookies using Javascript |
| 2010-07-25 Survival of the fittest book |
| 2010-07-23 Pastafarians in Spain |
| 2010-07-22 You have two sheep |
| 2010-07-09 Highway bank fire |
| 2010-07-08 Setting up a remote git repository |
| 2010-07-06 Bye bye trusted old Macbook |
| 2010-06-28 John Cleese on Football |
| 2010-06-23 ABN Amro and the Pathetic Customer Service Dept. |
| 2010-06-22 Wally does not like criticism |
| 2010-06-14 Soccermatch Netherlands vs Denmark |
| 2010-06-13 Lazy Cat |
| 2010-06-08 Reading public Buzz using the Google API |
| 2010-06-07 A Personal Letter from Steve Martin |
| 2010-06-05 Sushi Saturday |
| 2010-06-04 Suppressing the Enter key with Javascript |
| 2010-05-31 Temporal spacial anomaly on the Dutch highway |
| 2010-05-23 Greenhost will not log your traffic |
| 2010-05-10 Jarlsberg Webapp Exploits |
| 2010-05-04 A Thought Experiment |
| 2010-05-03 SafeEdit information updated |
| 2010-05-01 Microproxy now supports ftp |
| 2010-04-30 What could get Data angry |
| 2010-04-29 Lego Mindstorm solving the Rubik Cube |
| 2010-04-28 Crossroads 2.65 is out |
| 2010-04-17 Goggomobil in its natural habitat |
| 2010-04-14 Bacon Time |
| 2010-04-11 104 More friends to connect with |
| 2010-04-10 Bacteria infested radio reporter |
| 2010-04-07 The Kubat STAR |
| 2010-03-30 Homework Essay |
| 2010-03-29 C++ mutexes again |
| 2010-03-20 Weird Eyechart |
| 2010-03-15 Microproxy 1.01 |
| 2010-03-05 Microproxy |
| 2010-03-03 Sven Kramer and the wrong lane |
| 2010-02-26 Endearing Babe Magnet |
| 2010-02-17 Speed of light measured using chocolate and a microwave |
| 2010-02-17 Never again expires after 65 years |
| 2010-02-16 encfs on the Mac |
| 2010-02-15 Hyves.nl and sexual predators |
| 2010-02-10 Funny textbook |
| 2010-02-09 DNS failing after sleep wake cycle |
| 2010-02-06 Blast from the past |
| 2010-01-28 Simple and straight Perl HTTP::Proxy |
| 2010-01-15 Avatar the Movie |
| 2010-01-08 Slightly NSFW Linux Ad |
| 2010-01-07 WTF |
| 2010-01-05 Stop Software Patents in the EU |
| 2009-12-05 HammerServer 1.02 |
| 2009-11-28 Perls Automagical Autoloading |
| 2009-10-07 Office Poster |
| 2009-10-06 The nr 1 Nerdjoke |
| 2009-10-04 WoW Startscript for my Mac |
| 2009-09-27 HammerServer section is online |
| 2009-09-26 The BING HQ |
| 2009-09-26 Digging a WOW Tunnel |
| 2009-06-29 Wee Todd |
| 2009-06-23 The On Off Switch Revisited |
| 2009-06-22 Meatspace |
| 2009-05-30 My old houses |
| 2009-05-11 LOLcats are funny |
| 2009-05-11 Civic Duty WIN |
| 2009-05-10 Vote for the baby, Sky Radio promo FAIL |
| 2009-05-05 My secure data center |
| 2009-02-15 My Valentine is sending me a dot exe |
| 2009-02-05 MacPorts trash: .mp_123456 savefiles cleaning |
| 2009-02-01 Truecrypt 6 on Linux and the ext3 filesystem |
| 2009-01-28 www versus nl.youtube.com |
| 2009-01-27 Songsmith and The Police |
| 2009-01-25 My own Ministery of Silly Walks |
| 2009-01-09 CoolIris Mini HOWTO |
| 2008-11-04 UDP and DNS balancing |
| 2008-11-02 Life in graphs |
| 2008-11-01 Skeined yet? |
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2008-10-30 New Crossroads on the horizon |
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My pet project Crossroads (a software load balancer and fail over
utility) is really taking jumps forward. There are countless people to
thank - developers, bench markers, and not in the last place: the
users. Since Crossroads got its forum at xrforum.org, the interest has increased and so has
the number of people who actively participate. There have been many
useful and new changes.
But first, version 2.30 - next stable - is about to come out.
This is basically a (hopefully) bugfree stability release,
with huge optimizations. Preliminary tests show that Crossroads
in both TCP mode and in HTTP mode outperforms comparable balancers!
There ya go.
But wait, that's not all. The next development version 2.31 is
already in the oven. It's not available as download yet - but will
soon be - so check either the Downloads section
at crossroads.e-tunity.com or check the SVN
repository at svn://svn.e-tunity.com/crossroads/trunk. What
does the future hold?
- The control script xrctl now relies on an XML
configuration file, so that all controls have been externalized from
Crossroads and from its control script.
- The performance is even better than version 2.30-stable.
- Much more flexible back end checking. The older versions would
only try to establish a TCP connection to see if a back end is
alive. Now, checks can be configured to connect to other ports or
IP's, or they can do a "HTTP get" of e.g. a health check service.
Or, as a last resort, a user-supplied program is called to do its
magic and to tell Crossroads how the back end is doing.
- The web interface is greatly enhanced. Its status has been
steadily increasing from a "nice feature" to a true reporting and
maintenance tool. All features can be viewed, and almost all
features can be set. Even new back ends can be added. Currently the
only things that can't be controlled through the web interface, are
the balancer server port and the balancing type (tcp or http).
- DNS lookups of back end addresses are cached. This ensures that
the domain name server isn't hit all the time - and again increases
performance.
- Denial-of-service (DOS) detection can now call a user supplied
program to take special measures. The detection of DOS attacks and
protection inside XR itself was written previously by Gabriel M.,
but now, e.g. iptables can be invoked to block potential
trespassers.
Big changes. I can't wait to push out 2.30-stable, so that
2.31-development can be made available as a download too. All in all,
I'm very happy with the direction that Crossroads has taken. The
complete rewrite from the "old" Crossroads-1 code has been worth
while. And of course big thanks go to everyone who's involved - all
testers, contributors, people who come up with ideas, and of course
Rene K., forum master and tireless tester, bughunter, benchmarker, and
what not.
Since images speak louder than words, here's a snapshot of the
web interface. This balancer runs in HTTP mode, and the image shows
what can be configured for it.
And here's the web interface showing a back end.
Interested? Is your curiosity tickled? Get
Crossroads and become a member of the
forum!
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| 2008-10-28 Thread safe or not |
| 2008-10-15 WOW patch 3 on a case sensitive MacOSX filesystem |
| 2008-10-15 Surprising C++ optimizations |
| 2008-10-14 Weird system message |
| 2008-10-08 Data mining against terrorism does not work |
| 2008-09-16 Crossroads at the top of Freshmeat.net |
| 2008-09-09 Stupid spammers at Computable |
| 2008-09-06 Spam prevention with Postfix and Postgrey |
| 2008-09-03 The Gnomish Flying Machine |
| 2008-08-27 Bank customer data on eBay |
| 2008-08-26 Mutexes in C++ Threads |
| 2008-08-22 4M dataloss in the UK last year |
| 2008-08-21 Dropping spam with Postfix and Spamassassin |
| 2008-08-18 Bayes and the War on Photography |
| 2008-08-13 Good marital advice |
| 2008-08-12 Squid proxy for personal usage |
| 2008-08-11 Posix threads in C++ |
| 2008-08-09 Crossroads mailing list |
| 2008-08-08 Crossroads 2.00 is out |
| 2008-08-01 Fail Pics |
| 2008-07-14 The Fish Dance |
| 2008-07-01 Big Bother and Massive Data Storage |
| 2008-06-30 MMV One of omitted Unix tools |
| 2008-06-08 Even anonymous breadcrumbs can give you away |
| 2008-05-29 Crossroads in Argentina |
| 2008-05-20 The Party at the Company Outing |
| 2008-05-19 Crossroads 1.80 is out |
| 2008-05-18 Where does technical innovation really come from |
| 2008-05-16 Corporate bs generator |
| 2008-05-15 Even the Vatican has to adapt |
| 2008-05-12 Big Brother is watching your dog |
| 2008-05-09 666 all over the place |
| 2008-04-17 Security and privacy are incompatible |
| 2008-04-16 The Hallmark E Card |
| 2008-04-15 Crosroads Solaris port is out |
| 2008-04-04 Identity theft can cost you dearly |
| 2008-04-03 Crossroads can already do that |
| 2008-03-31 A dagerous safari |
| 2008-03-28 Why some Java J2EE projects are inefficient |
| 2008-03-26 The Hummingbird |
| 2008-03-25 The Easter delusion |
| 2008-03-18 McAfee detects mass hack of 200.000 webpages |
| 2008-03-17 More predictive statistics |
| 2008-03-10 Backwards conclusions even on Slashdot |
| 2008-02-18 A fractal photograph |
| 2008-02-15 Kaprekar revisited |
| 2008-02-14 Kaprekar numbers |
| 2008-02-12 A tale of the criminal ineptitude |
| 2008-02-10 Irritating Selfregistered users in PHPBB |
| 2008-02-08 B2B Spam in the Netherlands |
| 2008-02-06 Surprising iSight Capture |
| 2008-02-05 Breadcrumbs at WickedLasers.com |
| 2008-01-29 iSight Capture Utility |
| 2008-01-28 The Male Brain |
| 2008-01-26 Searching for the next Uri Geller |
| 2008-01-24 Opt in for b2b spam |
| 2008-01-14 Bokito Revisited |
| 2008-01-13 Top Crossroads User |
| 2008-01-12 World of Warcraft Dancing |
| 2008-01-12 Justice dispensed better late than never |
| 2008-01-11 Jeremy Clarkson and Identity Theft |
| 2008-01-10 Terrorism in the Netherlands |
| 2007-12-07 The mind and bodysnatchers are among us |
| 2007-12-05 Bruce Schneier and Hildo |
| 2007-12-04 Bye bye, good Christian soul |
| 2007-12-03 Confusing mail message |
| 2007-11-30 Medion MD 85276 reviewed |
| 2007-11-29 Recent cases of data exposure |
| 2007-11-20 Bayes bites |
| 2007-11-19 Japan starts fingerprinting foreigners |
| 2007-11-14 Privacy, Yahoo and the Strange World |
| 2007-11-14 Privacy, Fall through algorithms, and Securing data |
| 2007-11-07 European airlines to retain data |
| 2007-11-03 BloggEd |
| 2007-10-30 Wilders and Marktplaats.nl |
| 2007-10-28 The goldplated Mac |
| 2007-10-26 More morons |
| 2007-10-26 Dilbert nails it again |
| 2007-10-23 Rough yet funny |
| 2007-10-05 Another silly Trojan mail |
| 2007-10-01 So ugly it is beautiful |
| 2007-09-28 Here is a nickel kid |
| 2007-09-23 Spy Shredder |
| 2007-08-29 Web svn view 1.08 |
| 2007-08-24 Caught in THE Process |
| 2007-08-21 Stupid Trojan attack |
| 2007-08-21 Back in 1994 |
| 2007-08-20 A girly iPod |
| 2007-08-17 Crossroads for RDP connections |
| 2007-08-15 Firewall art |
| 2007-08-14 jpeginfo |
| 2007-08-13 Good People |
| 2007-08-07 The Real Crossroads |
| 2007-07-30 BBC Documentaries in the Netherlands |
| 2007-07-12 No problems with Crossroads so far |
| 2007-07-11 Politically correct ad nauseam |
| 2007-07-02 Waka Waka Poem |
| 2007-07-02 Voyage of the rubber ducks |
| 2007-06-28 The On Off Switch |
| 2007-06-27 No free lunch |
| 2007-06-25 Crossroads web interface |
| 2007-06-25 Blinkenlights |
| 2007-06-21 There is no silver bullet |
| 2007-06-18 Motto of the week |
| 2007-06-18 Do not feed the troll |
| 2007-06-17 Which programming language are you |
| 2007-06-13 Crossroads support request |
| 2007-06-12 Bokito glasses |
| 2007-06-07 Apache mod_proxy balancer description |
| 2007-06-05 A ticketnumber is not support |
| 2007-06-05 403 Hammertime |
| 2007-06-04 Playground Fun |
| 2007-05-24 Ascii man |
| 2007-05-07 Cannot find the damn server |
| 2007-05-02 The BFG200 |
| 2007-04-27 Crossroads Top User |
| 2007-03-30 Crossroads Usage |
| 2007-03-25 The guy with the dark motorhelmet |
| 2007-03-22 The Process and The Result |
| 2007-03-21 Quotes attributed to Jos |
| 2007-03-20 A really nice comment about Crossroads |
| 2007-03-18 Kubat in the air |
