technical misery

Lazily awoke at 08:00, EDT. I was brushing my teeth when I somehow started thinking about women in engineering and why there are no swimsui...

When a system becomes sufficiently complex, so as to confound our efforts to predict its behavior, we begin speaking of probabilistic, rathe...

All networking types daily make use of arithmetical operations optimized to deal with a fixed number of digits in base-2. These operat...

One of my coworkers noticed a large and sudden increase in unallocated bogons on the Internet. This normally indicates a new set of IP alloc...

In 2009, I posted some code to document a network's topology from a layer-3 perspective. Since that time, the quick-and-dirty BASH scri...

One of the many oddball questions festering in the back of my skull for the last year had to do with finding the volume of a cylinder. The m...

I was fortunate enough to attend the first day of the NCSA's biennial workshop: Building the Data Center of the Future. It was a great e...

The networking monster, Radia Perlman, has been busy doing something I've only ever dreamed of doing: unborking layer-2 and layer-3 in e...

I was flipping through one of my bookshelf faves, Gary A. Donahue's  Network Warrior , when I came across a blatant miscommunication reg...

GNS3 0.7 is now available as a DMG, python-related stuff included! It was actually announced on March 6, so I'm late, as ever, but still...