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  1. William

    EU VAT number validator

    What is 'EL'? No such country code. case "EL": if (preg_match("/^EL[0-9]{9}/", $vatNumberFull) != 1) { return false; } break;
  2. William

    Sony & North Korea & FBI

    The IP space (allegedly) used for the attack was from a Russian carrier routed by Intelsat (77.94.35.0/24) - Not out of North Koreas /22 (175.45.176.0/22) routed by CNC. The Chinese would also unlikely to be breaking their already strained relations with North Korea, they are in essence the...
  3. William

    Hosting business

    Their system however means ALL traffic is routed through Bucharest, which removes any sense with hosting in MD.
  4. William

    How do you manage your clients VPS? (Managed Providers)

    A mixture of custom scripts and ASYD
  5. William

    What do you use for your business phone system?

    I have my mobile provider forward a bunch of numbers to different mobiles, works fine. No need for landline/fixed phone.
  6. William

    Post your home network.

    More or less, the bonding and failover at this speed needs considerable CPU power (we use OpenVPN) which justifies the (measured) 36W of the router. Rest is just HW we had anyway (I purchased a lot of shit when i earned well, i still have stacks of unused mainboards, CPUs and other HW but sadly...
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    Post your home network.

    Internet connections: ADSL - 14/4 LTE - 100/5 LTE - 150/40 Router: i5 3XXX, 4GB RAM, 2x2TB HDD in RAID1 3 Dual Port Intel Network cards plus Onboard Realtek Switches: 1x 24xGE SMC 1x 24xFE Allied Telesyn WIFI: Dlink DIR-825 A/B/G/N All upstreams connect to the router and are...
  8. William

    Ever wonder how network cabling span oceans? Pretty neat video.

    Reminds me of the network map in Akamais NOC video still displaying the Soviet Union as one country...
  9. William

    Do you test your backups?

    I don't do incremental, only full and that by rsync (daily) as archive and GPG encrypt that - I do not verify them. I don't see much way for this backup to fail without being obvious (zero file size and alike)
  10. William

    [OpenVZ] Ploop 1.12.2

    ZFS on 2.6.* is in general a very bad idea.
  11. William

    Study finds that more than 80% of Tor Hidden Service visits are political dissidents

    Hidden sites itself only represent a VERY minimal % of Tor usage.
  12. William

    For those of you using GMail, how often do you backup your mailbox?

    I don't use gmail. Don't trust US/EU.
  13. William

    What are you listening to right now?

    Even speaking German (DE-DE or DE-CH) won't help people understand this Austrian music....
  14. William

    What is Your Link Building Strategy?

    ^ sounds great!
  15. William

    2015 New Years Resolutions?

    You should not buy a cat, better adopt one. I should probably smoke less, we'll see.
  16. William

    The Interview

    I did enjoy the movie while slightly intoxicated, Seth Rogen is pretty funny then.
  17. William

    How Do You Backup Your VPS/Shared? Deep Thoughts Inside

    Like this: for backupserver in $(ls -1); do date echo "Backup $backupserver" cd $backupserver month=$(date +%m) if [ ! -d $month ]; then mkdir $month; fi cd $month day=$(date +%d) if [ ! -d $day ]; then mkdir $day; fi cd $day mkdir temp cd temp...
  18. William

    Pacnet (sea fiber) Bought by Telestra (Australia) for $697 million USD

    as always 50x100GE projected.
  19. William

    Opening a business in another country

    Tax implications.
  20. William

    All of North Korea's internet is out.

    I highly doubt this numbers are correct due to the constant DDoS they usually get already.
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