A lot of people still use DSL to connect to the Internet, and most of these connections have a lower upstream bandwidth than their downstream. This can often cause latency for interactive low-bandwidth applications, like SSH and VoIP, when uploading large amounts of data because of a phenomenon called "bufferbloat". To combat this issue there are many solutions. In this article I'll tell you how I've worked around this issue. more »
Category: "Software"
Have you ever experienced that the system service "Media" climbing to the top of your application list on the Battery tab on your Android device? I had this particular problem, and it took me a very long time to actually figure out what caused the problem. more »
So, a while ago I decided that I wanted to invite the core developers of the iPXE project to my home for an extended weekend of hacking on the project. The agenda was to try and merge as many outstanding patches and pull requests that we knew about. The work the various students did as part of GSoC 2012 was on the priority list. The three people that were able to come were Michael Brown, Thomas Miletich and Marin Hannache. more »
The other day I received this email from a user of one of my CPAN modules.
This is what makes participating in an Open Source community really worth it! The tool he's talking about is XML::Rabbit. more »
During the summer season of 2012 (northern hemisphere) I've had the pleasure of being the coordinator of the iPXE network boot loader's participation in the Google Summer of Code program. This is a summary of what happened during the summer. more »