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a fairly comprehensive squid configuration for proxying all the http things

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After combing through the docs and several how–tos on deploying the Squid proxy server – none of which really did everything I wanted, of course – I’ve finally gotten to the format below. Installing Squid is easy-peasy – it’s in the standard package repos for the major platforms (CentOS/Fedora/RHEL, Ubuntu/Debian, etc) – so just run…

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ben thompson missed *a lot* in his microsoft-github article

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Ben Thompson is generally spot-on in his analysis of industry goings-on. But he missed a lot in The Cost of Developers this week. Here’s what he got right about this acquisition: Developers can be quite expensive (though, $7.5B (in equity) is only ~$265 per user (which is pretty cheap)) Microsoft is betting that a future…

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volvo moving towards waze-like functionality

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Shared a TechCrunch story recently in a G+ group I’m in on Volvo debuting a new service to upload live traffic data from its vehicles to be sent to other Volvos so they can avoid problem areas. Or…a self-built and -hosted Waze. You may recall that I wrote some about these kinds of things starting back…

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don’t use symlinks unless you *know* you can

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I first ran into this on Solaris in the context of [then] Opsware SAS (then HP SA, now owned by Microfocus). Bind mounts might be OK … so unless the tarball has symlinks included, don’t use them – they get traversed differently than “real” directories. In short, when directory traversals are done, sometimes it looks…

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