27 January 2009
By Carl Mercier
In Defensio, Startup and business
It is my pleasure to announce that my latest venture, Defensio (Karabunga Inc), has been acquired by leading Internet security company, Websense, Inc (NSDQ: WBSN).
I’m not quite moving to the Caribbeans just yet as I’m now employed by Websense as Director of Software Development. Needless to say, this is an exciting challenge for me and an amazing opportunity to further protect the web from all the malicious content that’s being posted nowadays. Our users should rejoice because we have a lot of amazing ideas already cooking!
Read the official acquisition announcement here for more details...
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acquisition, Defensio, goodnews, websense
26 October 2008
By Carl Mercier
In Uncategorized
Hola! I just started a new project on GitHub, I’m calling it ec2-extra-tools. It’s basically a set of extra command line tools that I find useful on Amazon EC2. Right now, it only has 2, but I will add more in the future and encourage other people to collaborate on the project.
Here’s what’s included so far:
- ec2-identify-instance: returns the current EC2 instance id
- ec2-identify-volume: returns the EBS volume id of a device
I needed ec2-identify-volume to automate EBS snapshots, so I thought I’d release my work on GitHub.
Here’s what I added in /etc/crontab to automate EBS snapshots:
0 2 * * * root ec2-create-snapshot `ec2-identify-volume /dev/sdj` >> /var/log/ebs_snapshots
The great thing about this line is that I don’t need to know the volume id beforehands. If a new volume is attached at /dev/sdj, I don’t have to change my crontab file either. In my situation, this is very convenient.
Hope you find ec2-extra-tools useful!
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25 October 2008
By Carl Mercier
In Cool/funny/stupid stuff, Technology
Macintosh computers are great. Not only are they more stable than their PC counterpart, but they totally get out of your way. On the Mac, things just work, as you would hope or expect they would. All the little nifty things the Mac offers really add up. OS X is by far the best operating system around, in my opinion.
Ok, since you’re reading this, you’re probably already convinced of that so let’s jump to the meat.
Long story short, I had this paper document I wanted to send by email. I could have done it in a dozen steps, but I felt lazy. Here’s a trick I figured out to make it very quick and easy:
- Fire up Image Capture.
- Change Automatic Task to “Mail.app”. To do so, click the dropdown menu, then “Other”, then browse to Mail.app in your Applications folder.
- Give your document a name in “Name” and set all the other settings as necessary.
- Hit overview/scan
- Mail opens up automatically after the scanning process. Just type in the email address of the recipient and you’re done!
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email, mac, macosx, mail, mailapp, nifty, osx, scan, scanner, tip, trick
