Category Archives: performance

For the DMZ

Posted on December 12, 2012 by C.J. Adams-Collier
Posted in 19.34 RCW, auditing, colliertech, debian, Dell, Eating CenturyLink's Lunch, Free Software, Hardware, investment, linux, military, network neutrality, network saturation, Networking, peering, performance, rate limiting, Telecommunications, Telephony, Unix, UTC, washington, ZyXEL | 2 Comments

Outages

Posted on November 21, 2012 by C.J. Adams-Collier

Hey all, Is it problematic for any of you that this blog is down for extended periods of time? If so, I might be able to put some effort in to stabilizing. Your operator.

Posted in Networking, Outages, performance | Leave a comment

NIST::NVD 1.00.00

Posted on July 12, 2012 by C.J. Adams-Collier

I’m leaving myself some room for bug fixes. It works for us in house. I would love to help others to give it a try. especially those who could benefit from making nearly immediately answered queries to the NIST’s NVD … Continue reading →

Posted in 19.34 RCW, auditing, Berkeley DB, Databases, debian, Eating CenturyLink's Lunch, F5, feds, Free Software, linux, MITRE, network neutrality, Networking, NIST, NIST, NVD, open source, performance, perl, pgp, rate limiting, security, Software, squeeze, Telephony, washington, work | Leave a comment

Service Interruption

Posted on June 16, 2012 by C.J. Adams-Collier

—–BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE—– Hash: SHA256 ███████████ █████, During the month of June, we experienced a service interruption which has caused our mutual customer, ███████████ ███████ ███ School, an inability to initiate outgoing calls. CenturyLink has also caused the interruption … Continue reading →

Posted in abuse, asterisk, colliertech, cryptography, debian, Free Software, GrandStream, Hardware, linux, network neutrality, Networking, performance, quagga, security, Software, Telephony, UTC, xen | 1 Comment

Vacation Tasks

Posted on June 1, 2012 by C.J. Adams-Collier

So, I’m taking vacation this week and next. Here’s a (partial) list of tasks that are left to do: Visit BC for NANOG 55 Work with Threshold Communications to verify interop is working as well as it seems to be … Continue reading →

Posted in abuse, ajax, asterisk, C.J. Insider, colliertech, debian, dns, F5, feds, Free Software, freenode, government, Hardware, irc, kvm, libvirt, linux, military, Networking, performance, perl, quagga, Software, storage, Telephony, virtualization, washington, wireless, xen | 1 Comment

software bridge loops suck, too

Posted on February 15, 2012 by C.J. Adams-Collier

I didn’t realize that I had two of my machines attached to openvpn from the same l2 segment. It caused a network outage for about 24 hours. Sorry for the downtime folks. I believe that if I turn on stp … Continue reading →

Posted in colliertech, debian, F5, Free Software, Hardware, LD1, LD11, LD36, LD40, legislative districts, network saturation, Networking, performance, perl, politics, proliant, spanning tree | 2 Comments

NIST::NVD::Store::SQLite3

Posted on February 9, 2012 by C.J. Adams-Collier

I published an SQLite3 storage back-end to NIST::NVD on the CPAN. It’s pretty quick. About as fast as the DB_File one, but without the down side of being tied to DB_File. It shouldn’t be too difficult to re-factor this code … Continue reading →

Posted in Databases, debian, F5 Networks, feds, Free Software, MariaDB, NIST, performance, perl, security, SQLite, work | 2 Comments

blog optimizations

Posted on July 6, 2010 by C.J. Adams-Collier

Thanks to some recommendations from Jeremy, Pierre and Jeff, this blog should be running a lot less slowly. I’ve installed memcached, set up wordpress plugins, tuned apache MPM parameters, tweaked iptables and tc rules and beaten on the blog with … Continue reading →

Posted in blog, C.J. Insider, colliertech, customer experience, debian, Free Software, network saturation, Networking, performance, rate limiting, Software, traffic shaping | 9 Comments

Running a console cable to the radio

Posted on March 25, 2009 by C.J. Adams-Collier

So, I’m attaching a radio to the chimney. I don’t want to have to bring it down every time I need to flash the firmware, so I’m also running an rs-232 cable up to it along with the PoE data/power … Continue reading →

Posted in amateur, colliertech, ewn, feds, government, Hardware, Networking, performance, proliant, security, sun, weather, winter, wireless | Tagged | 2 Comments

An update

Posted on April 21, 2008 by C.J. Adams-Collier

I don’t really have anything really exciting to report, so y’all get to listen to me blather. And after all, that’s what blogs are for anyway, right? Zelda is turning 11 months old this month. This is still my favorite … Continue reading →

Posted in amazon, autotools, c#, C.J. Insider, CLI, cocoa#, colliertech, debian, DLR, family, Free Software, freenode, gnome, gnome foundation, gtk+, irc, java, linux, microsoft, mono, monocast, Networking, novell, open source, performance, perl, social networking, Software, tao, ubuntu, vacation, wikipedia, wireless, work | Leave a comment