Bits Up!

I managed to get the little 5-volt 1 wire network I mentioned earlier , built up and running. Even fishing the wires wasn't too hard, ...

So, I live in Maine. The locals say, quite correctly, that its the way life oughta be. The way we keep massive hordes away from our paradise...

Recently I implemented patches to implement DNS prefetching in Firefox. I am primarily interested in their impact on Fennec (aka Mobile Fir...

A little while back I posted about a bug in the glibc getaddrinfo() implementation which resulted in many CNAME lookups having to be repeat...

I have been working on enhancing network performance for the upcoming Firefox on Mobile . I jokingly refer to this work as "finding use...

I have been spending some time recently improving the network behavior of Firefox in mobile (i.e. really high latency, sort of low bandwidt...

I have had reason to do a little server side WebDAV work these days. WebDav clients for Linux aren't all that common. There is a filesy...

A little while back I wrote about how prominent likely() and unlikely() are in the Linux kernel, and yet I could not find any performance m...

Yesterday I read a mailing list query asking how to get event driven Linux IP address changes (i.e. without having to poll for them). I agr...

IP Georeferencing is a pretty cool toolbox item on today's web. Simply put, its the process of taking an IP address and converting it t...

Last year I tossed an e-mail from the Linux kernel networking list in my "projtodo" folder. The mail talked about how the Linux TC...

The other day on kernelnewbies, the able Robert Day wondered whether or not anyone had quantified the effects of the likely() and unlikely(...