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Comment Discount for slashdot folks (Score 1) 150

by kozubik (#51166533) Attached to: ZFS Replication To the Cloud Is Finally Here and It's Fast

We've had a very significant discount for HN readers for years and we'd be happy to extend that to /. readers. Just email and ask.

Really happy to be here - I am not sure why I am labeled as "new submitter" since I have been a slashdot user for ... 15 years ?

Happy to answer any questions about our service here as well.

Submission + - ZFS Replication to the Cloud is Finally Here ... and it's Fast (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by kozubik
kozubik writes: Jim Salter at arstechnica provides a detailed, technical rundown of ZFS send and receive and compares it to traditional remote syncing and backup tools such as rsync. He writes: "In mid-August, the first commercially available ZFS cloud replication target became available at rsync.net. Who cares, right? As the service itself states, If you're not sure what this means, our product is Not For You. ... after 15 years of daily use, I knew exactly what rsync's weaknesses were, and I targeted them ruthlessly."

Comment Re:Co-Locate - hurricane electric (Score 1) 225

by kozubik (#39182243) Attached to: Suggestions For Music Hosting?

Please consider hurricane electric (he.net) - they have been a great contributor to the community (with their irc.lightning.net servers and their free ipv6 tunnels, etc.) and their bandwidth is $1/megabit.

$600/mo for a full cabinet and 100 megabits/s of bandwidth. And it's not some lame fly by night ... I highly recommend them.

Comment Re:Who can blame them? (Score 5, Interesting) 203

by kozubik (#38243010) Attached to: Patriot Act Clouds Picture For Tech

Not all providers are based in a single nation.

Amazon, for instance, has AWS locations around the world, although that probably doesn't help you much given their track record.

But rsync.net (I am the founder) has storage locations in Zurich and Hong Kong, in addition to the US. These sites are protected, just like the US sites, by the Warrant Canary:

http://www.rsync.net/resources/notices/canary.txt

So while I agree that everyone in the world should be wary of USA PATRIOT, it's not a given that non-US consumers have to avoid US providers across the board.

Comment Free rsync.net accounts for io.com shell logins (Score 2) 123

by kozubik (#36310302) Attached to: A Piece of Internet History Lost: IO.com Sold, Services To Shut Down

If you have an io.com shell account, we would like to gift you a lifetime free rsync.net account for the purposes of backing up, and parking, the contents of that shell account.

I have never had an io.com shell, but between rsync and tar+gpg+ftp you should be able to quickly and easily dump the contents of your shell to an rsync.net account.

Just email info@rsync.net and we'll set this up for you. FWIW, this is a continuation of our efforts to support the work being done by Jason Scott, the "Archive Team" and the safeguarding of digital history, generally.

Comment Free Speech or Stone Age (Score 3, Interesting) 840

by kozubik (#35028884) Attached to: Egypt Shuts Off All Internet Access

The Egyptian authorities have the ability to shut down free speech in 2011, but turning off the Internet is not enough - they must completely halt modern commerce.

Since they are not, as far as I can imagine, performing mass jamming of the 2.4ghz spectrum, anyone with a laptop and "wi-fi" connectivity has everything they need to conduct insurrection. This concept is known as "Free Speech or Stone Age":

http://blog.kozubik.com/john_kozubik/2009/06/free-speech-or-stone-age.html

Unless you remove the general purpose tools of modern commerce, filtering (or even disabling) the Internet will not stop speech.
GUI

Ivan Krstić Says Negroponte's Wrong About Sugar and OLPC 137

Posted by timothy from the who-is-this-krstić-guy-anyhow dept.
Not many days ago, we mentioned ZDNet's interview with Nicholas Negroponte, in which Negroponte had some harsh things to say about Sugar and its connection to the slower-than-hoped uptake of the XO. Ivan Krstic (formerly head of the OLPC's security innovative subsystem) responded to Negroponte's claims, which he says are "nonsense." Among other things, he mentions that Sugar "was the name for the new learning-oriented graphical interface that OLPC was building, but it was also the name for the entire XO operating system, one tiny part of which was Sugar the GUI, and the rest of which was mostly Fedora Linux."
The Internet

Australian Net Filter Gets One Step Closer 129

Posted by Soulskill from the put-down-the-kangaroo-and-write-a-letter dept.
Condobolin sends in an update to the Australian government's ongoing efforts to implement ISP-level filtering. One of the hurdles they had to overcome was to build a system that would allow them to filter content without impairing other internet usage. A trial of the system has just concluded, and the results are positive — at least, for the government. Quoting: "More than half of the Internet service providers (ISPs) taking part in the Federal Government's ISP filtering trial have reported minimal speed disruptions or technology problems. Of the nine participating ISPs, iPrimus, Netforce, Webshield, Nelson Bay Online and OMNIconnect told ARN they had seen no slowdowns in Internet speeds or problems with the filtering solutions in place. Of the remaining four ISPs, Tech2U and Highway1 were unable to respond by time of publication while Unwired and Optus refused to comment. ... 'From a technical perspective we're more than confident that if the government decided to roll out a mandatory Internet filter based on or around an Australian Communications and Media Authority blacklist or subset thereof, then it can be done without any impact whatsoever to the speed of the Internet,' [said Webshield managing director Anthony Pillion]."
Data Storage

Best Home Backup Strategy Now? 611

Posted by kdawson from the all-thumbs dept.
jollyreaper writes "Technology moves quickly and what was conventional wisdom last year can be folly this year. But the one thing that's remained constant is hard drives are far too large to backup via conventional means. Tape is expensive and can be unreliable, though it certainly has its proponents. DVDs are just too small. There are prosumer devices like the Drobo, but it's still just a giant box of hard drives, basically RAID. And as we've all had drilled into our heads, 'RAID is not backup.' When last this topic came up on Slashdot, the consensus was that hard drives were the best way to backup hard drives. Backup your internal HDD to an external one, and if your data is really important, have two externals and swap one off-site once a week. Is there any better advice these days?"

Comment Built on standards vs. interoperates with them (Score 1) 141

by kozubik (#28574391) Attached to: Open Source Facing a Difficult Battle For Cloud Relevance

I couldn't care less what the cloud, or SAS, or software is running _on_. What I care about is whether or not it provides open, standards-based interoperability.

Does Amazon s3 run on linux or bsd or WIndows ? I don't know, but I do know that I can't just connect over plain old SFTP or WebDAV without major gimmickry and transformation. (FWIW, providers like rsync.net do, in fact, allow direct, standards based interaction, so it's not impossible).

On the other hand, another cloud-like provider might run on a completely closed source, proprietary foundation, but if it provides plain old standards based interaction from the outside, who cares ?

Comment Free Speech or Stone Age (Score 1) 232

by kozubik (#28496621) Attached to: The Internet Helps Iran Silence Activists
I began writing this short piece a year or two ago, titled "Free Speech or Stone Age": http://blog.kozubik.com/john_kozubik/2009/06/free-speech-or-stone-age.html The current events in Iran are a perfect illustration of two competing memes: the (mistaken) notion that a state can completely suppress anonymous free speech while maintaining a modern economy, and the (surprising to some) notion that that is impossible. Many Iranians (and even many Americans) may not realize it, but arbitrary, anonymous free speech on any subject is currently available in Iran, as well as China, etc. This is a fact. Only by freezing all international travel, confiscating all general purpose computing devices, and outlawing/jamming all standardized wireless network protocols could Iran possibly hope to curtail this speech.

Comment Re:just choose your favorite project (Score 1) 299

by kozubik (#23516954) Attached to: To Whom Should I Donate?
Please consider these two FreeBSD related bounties:

http://www.rsync.net/resources/notices/2007cb.html

(vmware 6.x working on a modern FreeBSD release)

and:

http://blog.kozubik.com/john_kozubik/2007/12/bounty-posted-f.html

Both of these items are long overdue to be fixed - having a modern version of vmware working on FreeBSD is essential to many, many developers and engineers, and because so much of the web now requires a recent version of flash to _use at all_ it is imperative that there be a method to use flash9 on a native FreeBSD browser.

I encourage everyone that is interested in FreeBSD on the desktop to look into supporting these bounties.

BBC Reports UK-U.S. Terror Plot Foiled 1792

Posted by timothy from the england-prevails dept.
j823777 was one of several readers to point out a BBC report that "A terrorist plot to blow up planes in mid-flight from the UK to the U.S. has been disrupted, Scotland Yard has said. It is thought the plan was to detonate up to three explosive devices smuggled on aircraft in hand luggage. Police have arrested 21 people in the London area after an anti-terrorist operation lasting several months. Security at all airports in the UK has been tightened and delays are reported. MI5 has raised the UK threat level to critical — the highest possible." spo0nman adds a link to the Associated Press's coverage. Update: 08/10 12:57 GMT by T : Several readers have pointed out new restrictions imposed as a result of this plot on passengers' carry-on luggage. In the UK, nearly all possession (including laptop computers) must be carried in the cargo hold; while their rules don't yet go quite as far, U.S. airlines are stepping up their enforcement of carry-on-restrictions, including banning substances like toothpaste.

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