Currently Senior System Administrator for Oxygen Cloud building and scaling out their operations. Spent time in the past with various companies including Laughing Squid Web Hosting, LinkedIn, Lockheed Martin, and etc. helping from IT (LinkedIn) to Rockets (Lockheed).
We at Oxygen Cloud are always looking at ways to make the cloud more personal. A while back we stumbled over the Backblaze blog talking about “How to build cheap cloud storage” and it gave us an idea! What if we get one, but turn it up the volume to 11 by integrating the Backblaze into the Oxygen Cloud?
This is what 55TB looks like!
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Hi Keith,
We are looking at releasing a Linux build of our client in the next two weeks, so any user can install Oxygen Storage Connector on their Linux NAS to create an OC appliance.
The Oxygen Tunnel gateway is a service we provide that allows users access to their Oxygen Storage Connector without configuration of their Firewall from anywhere. Since this is part of our infrastructure I cant get too much in to details about its technical working but if you want to learn more I suggest you drop a ticket at our support desk at oxygencloud.com/support
So a few days ago the wife was reporting problems with her e-mail and one of those e-mails she was having problems with was groupon. So I decided to take a look at the e-mail headers to figure out when they were sent and I found this little gem.
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X-Recruiting: Interested in headers? Join us: http://www.groupon.com/techjobs
From: "Groupon" mail@e.groupon.com
It’s a cute trick to get people who understand headers to be interested in the company.
Did I forget to mention that we at Oxygen Cloud are hiring, http://www.oxygencloud.com/careers.html
As more and more things move to the “cloud” as a Sys Admin you might find your self tasked with managing a Database that you don’t have shell access too. That has been the case for me with my last two jobs, Laughing Squid and now as Senior Sys Admin at Oxygen Cloud. With Oxygen we needed to backup some AWS RDS Instances and wanted to do it using a server on EC2 so we don’t have the bottle next of our local internet. This same method works with Rackspace Cloud Sites which I used at Laughing Squid. Its use a little known (could not find it easily with a google search) trick with mysqldump
mysqldump -P <port#> -h <server ip>-u mysql_user -p database_name table_name > backup.sql
To restore your DB in the cloud you use a more well-known mysql technique
mysql -u mysql_user -p -h <server ip> cloud_db_name < backup.sql
Looks like the iPhone stores GPS data on you to your local backup (and maybe apple) and you can now view it using iPhoneTracker. Scary and the history mode is even more scary as you can see where you went during a day and its pretty accurate.
YouTube – DynamiteWith Me and San Francisco Giants Cody Ross & Brian Wilson.
Made a late night run to ritual coffee and saw a guy selling Vegan soup and chocolate in the corner. You can find him on facebook as Soup to Nuts
I just recently purchased a Nerf gun at Target as a impulse buy since it was under $20. I pretty much planed to buy it, go to my friends house and cause havoc and torture my friend daughter which I did. Looking at the gun you cant but think how well made it is and as if someone made it for adults and now I see why. Checking online I see all these reviews and even modders like this video on how to make your gun more powerful. Never thought Nerf gun would have such a hardcore following
YouTube – How to Modify the Nerf Alpha Trooper – Modification Tutorial.
Is there something wrong with some seven-year-old Muslim American kid believing that he or she could be President?
via Colin Powells Tribute to Muslim-American War Hero, Kareem R. Khan – Steven Waldman.
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Keith Bucknall 11:42 am on April 4, 2012 Permalink
Hi there, great post, can I ask if you could package the Oxygen storage connector into a distro to sit on top of the Blazepod – in essence creating a OC appliance?
What are the Oxygen tunnel gateways are these the same as the storage connectors?