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As some of you may have heard there is a new DNS cache poisoning ’sploit in the wild (CVE). Currently there are two exploits available, one for a domain and the other for a hostname. Check out the info on each here and here. The basic idea is described in the files.

This exploit targets [...]

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Erin and I went to Boston for a bit of vacation and for the RedHat summit. Here are some photo’s.
The Stata center at MIT.

Erin riding a duck in Boston Commons.

Fenway.

Chinatown.

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The RedHat folks decided to change the times of the seminars up and rather than at 1015 things started at 0900. Unbeknownst to me I was a little late to the first seminar.
Dynamic Grid Computing With Red Hat Enterprise MRG & Amazon EC2
Bryan Che
Enterprises today are running more and more distributed applications and workloads and [...]

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Here is day two at the summit.
Network Performance: 10GB Ethernet
Mark Wagner
Performance of 10GB Ethernet in Red Hat Enterprise Linux, MRG, and virtualization environments.
Database Performance and Scaling
Sanjay Rao
Optimizing database performance and scalability with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Making the Best of the Global File System
Curtis Zinzilieta
Best practices and performance tuning guidance for users of Red Hat’s Global [...]

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Here are the seminars that I attended today at the RedHat Summit.
RHEL Kernel Performance Optimization - Part I and II
John Shakshober & Larry Woodman

An in-depth session covering the tools, tips and tricks of performance measurement and tuning of the RHEL kernel
How to Make Good RPM Packages
Tom Callaway
A journey into the design and construction of [...]

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