Category Archives: networking

OnLive Latency Tested

Posted on Thursday, July 8, 2010 by author-unknown

The Digital Foundry blog has done an analysis of recently launched cloud gaming service OnLive, measuring latency across several different games. Quoting:
“In a best-case scenario, we counted 10 frames delay between button and response on-screen, givin… Continue reading →

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Mother Earth Mother Board

Posted on Tuesday, July 15, 2008 by Beanbag

Published in Wired in 1996, this is still an excellent article written by Neal Stephenson, who travels across the globe to document how undersea communications cable are laid. While the article is very long (56 pages), it makes for fascinating … Continue reading →

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HOWTO – kill terminal services sessions remotely

Posted on Thursday, August 16, 2007 by Beanbag

This is a useful tip on those rare occasions when you absolutely need to get into a remote server and all of the connections are tied up. While I’m sure we all agree that this is an awesome feature, sometimes … Continue reading →

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Book: Where Wizards Stay Up Late

Posted on Wednesday, June 20, 2007 by Beanbag

Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet by Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon Touchstone, 1998 In Where Wizards Stay Up Late, Hafner and Lyon take us all the way back to the earliest days of computer networking. … Continue reading →

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Meet cGrid, the real-time P2P punisher

Posted on Tuesday, March 13, 2007 by Beanbag

A new tool has been announced in the piracy arms race. This tool can be deployed by network administrators to monitor network traffic in order to identify people using P2P services, and can automatically boot them off the network. The … Continue reading →

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Downloads: PuTTY 0.59 (Windows, Unix)

Posted on Tuesday, January 30, 2007 by Beanbag

Grab the latest version of the PuTTY SSH client and associated utilities. Link (via Digg)

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Pimp Your Router

Posted on Thursday, January 18, 2007 by Beanbag

I recently upgraded the firmware on my Linksys WRT54G router with the latest DD-WRT v23 SP2 firmware, and it works great. Among many other new features, I can now assign static DHCP leases, which I couldn’t do before with the … Continue reading →

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Bittorrent simulator

Posted on Wednesday, September 20, 2006 by Beanbag

This is an extremely cool java applet that graphically demonstrates how a file is shared over Bittorrent. Just add some seeds and peers and watch the packets fly! Link (via Digg)

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