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2011-03-16
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Stubby Post – I’ve Taken a New Job

After several months of semi-serious job searching, I’ve landed a new position with a local company. I don’t know how much I should reveal about them, but I’m really excited to be joining their team. I’ll pass on more details as I get a feel for what Pokies is appropriate, but I’ll say that the […]

2011-03-02
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I’ve Been Violated…Again

I noticed a few weeks back that my blog article titles were showing up in my RSS feed as ads for cheap prescriptions. Not good. I changed all my passwords, made sure I was at the latest version of WordPress (I was), and disabled all my unneeded plugins. The RSS feed cleared up, but my […]

2011-01-10
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Network Protocol Overhead

Here are some packet overhead numbers for a few popular protocols to help with doing bandwidth requirement calculations.

2010-11-11

Lessons Learned from a Bad Day

I had a really, really bad day this past Tuesday.  I mean, a really bad day.  I guess I should have seen it coming since the last #stabbytuesday was uneventful.  Here's what said cosmos had in for me and the lessons I took away.  Most of these are things we've all lived before, but, for […]

2010-11-01
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Stubby Post – A Story on VPN Hardware Acceleration

We use a hosted application that requires IPSec tunnels to the provider from different properties across the country.  The ones in the lower 48 perform adequately, but the new one in Alaska is absolutely horrible.