Docker vs. Ansible
I recently gave a talk to the local Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee Linux User Group describing some similarities between Docker and Ansible. Both give you a repeatable configuration by executing some sort …
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What a crock! How badly documented can a facility be? There are lots of tutorials on the basics of Microsoft Mail Merge, but there is a dearth of information for …
INCLUDEPICTURE in Microsoft Word Mail Merge Read MoreMore Fun with Docker Tooling
I continue to enjoy using Docker to encapsulate developer tooling so that it doesn’t pollute my laptop with varying versions of software I don’t use regularly. (See Jonathan Bergknoff’s Run …
More Fun with Docker Tooling Read MoreMigrating Snowpack to Vite (and Docker!)
About eighteen months ago I migrated a small Javascript app to use Snowpack development tooling. (This was mostly for fun, I had already had it working with Webpack.) Snowpack claimed …
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macOS Monterey ships with a tool that measures the responsiveness of your network connection. It saturates the network with traffic for 20 seconds, then measures the rate of short transactions …
Using Apple’s RPM tool Read MoreNameD•Tective — mDNS over AppleTalk
[From the Archives of Amusing Technology…] Back in the ’90s, Dave Fisher and I created NameD•tective, a Macintosh control panel that gave any Mac on the Dartmouth network a static …
NameD•Tective — mDNS over AppleTalk Read MoreComcast modems decrease bufferbloat
Last month, Comcast released a paper Improving Latency with Active Queue Management (AQM) During COVID-19 that shows that their PIE AQM dramatically decreases lag/latency (by a factor of 10X — …
Comcast modems decrease bufferbloat Read MoreToward a Consumer Responsiveness Metric
At a recent videoconference, I advocated strongly for a consumer-facing measurement of latency/responsiveness. I had not planned to speak, so I gave off-the-cuff comments. This is an organized explanation of …
Toward a Consumer Responsiveness Metric Read MoreInternet Draft: Responsiveness under Working Conditions
The link below goes to the current Internet Draft for Responsiveness under Working Conditions. It is available at: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-cpaasch-ippm-responsiveness/
Internet Draft: Responsiveness under Working Conditions Read MoreBest Bufferbloat Analogy – Ever
My friends frequently ask, “Why is my network so slow?” And often, the answer is “latency” or the screwy term, “Bufferbloat” – the “undesirable latency caused when a router buffers …
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