Archive | April, 2010

The three-way handshake of love

We came across this entry on a blog called Ksplice.com entitled “Dating is rough at the transport layer” and just had to republish it. I mean, we’ve come up with some ways of making TCP easier to understand before and broached the subject of falling in love with your network management tools, but this is just awesome:

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ReRun: A lack of job security leads to a lack of innovation

As we transition to a new editor at NetworkPerformanceDaily.com, we’re going to be reprinting some of the best articles from our archives for a little while. We’ll have new content up shortly. Originally Published February 09, 2007 By Brian Boyko When your job can be quantifiably measured in the terms of ROI, many companies are [...]

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Blue Angels & Comedians & Network Engineers…Oh My!

We’re gearing up for the 9th annual NetQoS Symposium to be held May 2-5 in beautiful Austin. The conference is designed for network engineers, managers and other IT professionals to learn from NetQoS experts and each other about the trends and best practices in network and application performance management. This year is especially exciting since [...]

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ReRun: Dungeons & Dragons & Networks.

As we transition to a new editor at NetworkPerformanceDaily.com, we’re going to be reprinting some of the best articles from our archives for a little while. We’ll have new content up shortly. Originally Published March 16, 2007 By Brian Boyko The greatest barrier to creativity is a lack of boundaries. Counter-intuitive – almost zen-like – [...]

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ReRun: Lessons about dehumanization and technology from a man living under the gun

As we transition to a new editor at NetworkPerformanceDaily.com, we’re going to be reprinting some of the best articles from our archives for a little while. We’ll have new content up shortly. Originally Posted May 18, 2007 Add a Comment Now – We Want to Hear From You   By Brian Boyko I recently interviewed [...]

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ReRun: VoIP and online games – a basic understanding

As we transition to a new editor at NetworkPerformanceDaily.com, we’re going to be reprinting some of the best articles from our archives for a little while. We’ll have new content up shortly. Originally Published August 22, 2007 By Brian Boyko Editor, Network Performance Daily Recently, World of Warcraft released a patch which enabled players to [...]

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ReRun: “Aren’t Routers Boring?” the developer asked.

As we transition to a new editor at NetworkPerformanceDaily.com, we’re going to be reprinting some of the best articles from our archives for a little while. We’ll have new content up shortly. Originally Published: December 15, 2006 Compiled by Brian Boyko We (and many other experts) believe that there needs to be an industry discussion [...]

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