Cassette tape - the flash drives of the 80's

Remember cassette tape? I remember using these tapes to save and restore programs using a ZX81 when I was fifteen. The procedure was fraught with potential issues and a person had to be real thick skinned to use it! It might take a few attempts to successfully load a program and it was all about patience, I wonder if I should add, learnt to program on a ZX81 to my CV? There was no Internet and the only reference was manuals and magazines. And then there were the programming language books. In those days they were not called dummies!!!

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easywall - Web interface for easy use of the IPTables firewall on Linux systems written in Python3.

Firewalls are becoming increasingly important in today’s world. Hackers and automated scripts are constantly trying to invade your system and use it for Bitcoin mining, botnets or other things. To prevent these attacks, you can use a firewall on your system. IPTables is the strongest firewall in Linux because it can filter packets in the kernel before they reach the application. Using IPTables is not very easy for Linux beginners. We have created easywall - the simple IPTables web interface . The focus of the software is on easy installation and use. Access this neat software over on github: easywall

No Scrubs: The Architecture That Made Unmetered Mitigation Possible

When building a DDoS mitigation service it’s incredibly tempting to think that the solution is scrubbing centers or scrubbing servers. I, too, thought that was a good idea in the beginning, but experience has shown that there are serious pitfalls to this approach. Read the post of at Cloudflare's blog: N o Scrubs: The Architecture That Made Unmetered Mitigation Possible

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