Archive for the ‘Networking’ Category

Okay! Who do I blame?

While I am working on a post-fudcon report.  Its kind of hard to work when the network continues to drop packets.  Currently, I’m on-site in Los Angeles, teaching a course.  Why, oh why does this happen?
Cheers,
Herlo

June 24, 2008 • Tags: , , • Posted in: Guru, Networking, Rants, Tech, Tools • No Comments

Dig this!

Hi all,
While at work today, setting up test environments for Ubuntu Gutsy (7.10), I needed to check something with the ubuntu.com DNS entries. So I ran the following:
# dig -t ns ubuntu.com
And got something very interesting and entertaining. Can you see what it was? Yes, the mythic-beasts are definitely alive and well [...]

December 18, 2007 • Tags: , , , • Posted in: DNS, Guru, Networking, Tech, Tools, Ubuntu • No Comments

UNIX Completes Me

Okay, okay.  I’m taking a quick break from my SUSE comparisons (and I will reply to all the comments I’ve been getting as well, keep them coming, its great) to entertain you all with this lovely picture my friend Aaron Toponce just sent me.  I laughed out loud when I read it and knew it [...]

December 15, 2007 • Tags: , • Posted in: Humor, Networking, Tech • One Comment

Distro Comparison: openSUSE 10.3 first impressions

I don’t know if I can last an entire week with openSUSE 10.3. I can’t believe I even thought it possible. I am jonesing for Fedora right now, even though any other distro would probably do…
What’s wrong with SUSE you ask? Just about EVERYTHING! I’m not comfortable at all in this [...]

SCTP - a new replacement for TCP (or UDP)

Recently, I’ve been quite overwhelmed with keeping up with my latest ambition, the Utah Open Source Foundation, which has made it a bit difficult to keep up on my blog here. I’ll be doing some updates to this blog soon and you should start seeing regular updates from me here in the very [...]

October 8, 2007 • Posted in: Networking, Tech, Tools • No Comments