Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway

[ music | Depeche Mode – Route 66 ] I was in Houston a few weeks ago, and I had many hundreds of thousands of multi-megabyte files I need to shove through a 20Mbit upstream connection to Azure. Strictly speaking the problem here wasn’t how long it would take to send the file data, that […]


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Modifying a Dell 3020m micro PC for dual gigabit ethernet; adventures in Dremeling.

[ music | Lady Gaga – I Like It Rough ] I’m lucky enough to have AT&T Fiber for gigabit internet, and while the rest of my network stack in the house is Cisco Meraki, I can’t afford an MX250 to use the whole pipe, or even an MX100 for 75%. Used to use a […]


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Via Dylan

I took a tour, I rode the wind, I went to find, Went around that bend. I saw brilliance, a thousand little lights, they crashed to earth and lost their fights. We looked around to see what we could see, we saw the things we wished could be. We dropped our guard, and let out […]


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Solidarity

[ music | U2 – Freedom for My People ] Communication is key to a free society, and instrumental in helping a people liberate themselves. Radio helped win World War II. Television and helped bring down the Berlin Wall, and the Iron curtain. Right now, the Internet is helping the people of Iran try to […]


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Why APNG?

APNG is a good thing. Some people think it’s not, that it’s just Mozilla carving its own course. It’s not Mozilla just being difficult, it’s that MNG missed the mark by a mile. Don’t believe me? Turns out other companies have encountered similar situations, as Raymond Chen explains why it’s ok to reimplement a subset […]


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