This is the blog of Ronald Bartels that wanders on and off the subject of problem management (that is how it started). Mostly now the topics are about IoT and SD-WAN.
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Play-Doh - the failed cleaning product that became a successful toy - the Awesome World of Things
Before being found ground into
the rugs of child-rearing homes everywhere, Play-Doh was ironically
created to be a cleaning product. The paste was first marketed as a
treatment for filthy wallpaper—before the company that produced it
began to go down the tubes. The discovery that saved Kutol
Products—headed for bankruptcy—wasn't that their wall cleaner worked
particularly well, but that schoolchildren were beginning to use it to
create Christmas ornaments as arts and crafts projects. By removing the
compound's cleanser and adding colours and a fresh scent, Kutol spun
their wallpaper saver into one of the most iconic toys of all time—and
brought mega-success to a company headed for destruction. Sometimes, you
don't even know how brilliant you are until someone notices for you.
Find out more about this toy over at LinkedIn here.
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
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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