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August 2008


main17 Aug 2008 09:23 pm

My employer outsources their HR. Part of the services they provide are flash-based courses for mandatory training.

Humorously from the Cultural Diversity applet:

And of course, you should be using IE, it’s the browser.

main17 Aug 2008 09:15 pm

iperf is a tool I find very useful on a regular basis. For those unfamiliar, it’s a CLI-based tool to push test traffic around. It can flexibly generate a lot of TCP or UDP traffic.
I mainly use it to tweak TCP parameters for maximum transport-layer performance or to gain a rough measure of the available throughput available for a given network path.

Or it can be timed to make funky bandwidth graphs: