Digital Consumption

Digital Consumption

Permanent Denial of Service

Darkreading reports of firmware attacks. This topic seems to be getting a bit more public attention recently (see also here).

Charles Darke | 3:26pm, 20 May 2008.

I'm thinking of upgrading my server and setting up a Xen Server so that I can share costs with others.

I'll need 5 other people to join in willing to pay £240 per year (£20 pcm) for a share.

Charles Darke | 10:31pm, 2 March 2008.

Running your own DNS server

After the recent 123-reg debacle, I did something that I probably should have done a while ago: I set up my own Authoratative name server. So the domain name 'digitalconsumption.com' is now being served by a virtual server on the same physical hardware as my webserver.

Charles Darke | 7:50pm, 22 November 2007.

123-Reg Domain server problems

123-Reg, a popular UK registrar, had huge server problems this weekend which took down thousands of UK based websites (including this one). Customers are livid at the slow response and poor communication.

Charles Darke | 2:17pm, 18 November 2007.

New RSS feeds now available, including full text feed

I've now added an experimental full text RSS feed to this site. Other new RSS features include: categories in RSS so you can filter based on topics, RSS feeds for tags so that you can subscribe to a feed for any given tag on this site and RSS feed for the cool new Mini-log.

These changes are part of a recent site overhaul which introduce various new features including tagging. More new features will be added soon.

Charles Darke | 11:23pm, 6 November 2007.

Mini-log

x86 / linux boot process

Some Thoughts on Twitter's Availability Problems

Scaling image hosting cheaply: the ex-Google engineer that started ImageShack can serve two terabyte

Vendors Are Bad For Security

The Swiss Army Knife of Data Storage

Too Much Code: The Design Crisis

Don't Click Here: The Art of Hyperlinking