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Network performance measurement

Posted by John Adams on November 23rd, 2008

After building a new gigabit network here, we wanted to know exactly what our performance was like. 
I turned to CAIDA, the Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis, which has long been a provider of excellent network performance tools. Their research focuses on developing tools to measure the Internet in many amazing ways, such as this map [...]

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Taming the Leopard

Posted by John Adams on February 25th, 2008

Retina.net runs on a Mac Mini, co-located through business cable service. For the last 8 months it’s been running on Mac OS X Tiger (10.4) with very little in the way of problems. Yesterday I started an upgrade to Leopard, which created many more problems than expected.
Major issues and caveats I experienced

No more NetInfo – [...]

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