Ok, so I am a windows dude and only after docker and K8 came along did I start to get all they hype around Linux. To be fair, Linux is special and I have been blown away with the engineering effort behind this OS (and also glad to leave my book of Daniel Appleman win32 […]
Read more →Getting an application knocked out with a simple SYN flood is both embarrassing and avoidable. Its also very easy to create a SYN flood and so its something you should design against. Below is the hping3 command line that I use to test my services against SYN floods. I have used quite a few mods, […]
Read more →Today I am a happy bunny!!!! Yury Tsarev (a very clever dude) did a presentation to one of the Kubernetes co-founders Tim Hockin. The demo was one of absa banks opensource projects called K8GB (a cloud native GSLB for K8s): https://www.k8gb.io/ Why do I like K8GB? Because it uses a single CRD that integrates to […]
Read more →Below is a sample class containing a high performance timer. Example usuage: }
Read more →The following code can be used to import the contents of an excel workbook into an array from within a Visual Basic application.
Read more →Unfortunately, the following (seemingly harmless code) requires administrator rights (and on Windows 2003 you will need to be member of “Performance Monitor Users” group): In most cases this is not appropriate and certainly not in a Citrix environment. If you call it without the correct permissions you the following stack dump: Below is a light […]
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