Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Forcing a higher MSS to improve TCP performance on links with asymmetric MTUs

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An interesting networking problem was recently posed to me. As context, suppose two computers, call them “A” and “B”, are networked together...
Sunday, November 17, 2013

Weekend Diversion - Conway's Game of Life using ncurses

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Seeking a bit of for-fun programming for the weekend and an excuse to refresh myself on the basics of ncurses , I decided to write my own sm...
Saturday, September 14, 2013

Modifying software for fun and music, part 2

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Author's Note: Whew! I've been on a long hiatus from posting. This post in particular is a long-overdue follow-up to a n experiment ...
Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Using ld to manually build an executable

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Author's note: further work on raop_play has been sporadic due to other happenings, though I have some new results addressing song trunc...
Wednesday, March 21, 2012

"It's all just bit-flipping and timing"

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This was stated to me by a coworker at my first job. It was at a formative moment in my life: getting ready to start college, working at a t...
Wednesday, February 22, 2012

A quick word on Bufferbloat

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I've recently been working on a conference paper and some coding in support of my dissertation research, hence the lack of updates. In t...
Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Modifying software for fun and music, part 1

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Author's Note: This is the first post in an experiment wherein I document my foray into deciphering and modifying a particular piece of ...