Coding Relic

An article in the March 8 issue of the journal PLoS Computational Biology (as reported by Science Daily) states: Upon pre-synaptic excit...

In software development sometimes you spend time on an implementation which you are unreasonably proud of, but ultimately decide not to use ...

In addition to its role in assigning IPv4 addresses, DHCP has an options mechanism to send other bits of data between client and server. For...

When building the software for a new device there are a ton of things which need to go into the filesystem: binaries, libraries, device node...

SOPA isn't dead. It hasn't been defeated. It hasn't been stopped. Its just regrouping. Their main mistake was in allowing it t...

Last week Greg Ferro wrote about the use of merchant silicon in networking products. I'd like to share some thoughts on the topic. ...

Earlier this week Sam Biddle of Gizmodo published How the Hashtag Is Ruining the English Language , decrying the use of hashtags to add add...

The utilities used to run from poles, now they are underground. The functionality is unchanged, but the implementation is cleaner.

Earlier this year I donated seed funding to the Ada Initiative , a non-profit organization dedicated to increasing participation of women in...

Last week Google introduced Currents , a publishing and distribution platform for smartphones and tablets. I decided to publish this blog a...

This weekend Greg Ferro published an article about jumbo frames . He points to recent measurements showing no real benefit with large fram...

In August this site published a series of posts about the Juniper QFabric . Since then Juniper has released hardware documentation for ...

Last week Martin Casado published some thoughts about using OpenFlow and Software Defined Networking for simple forwarding . That is, does ...

Modern commodity switch fabric chips are amazingly capable, but their functionality is not infinite. In particular their parsing engines are...