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May 2006 - Posts

The blog goes dark for a while

I'm chaperoning my son's trip to Washington DC and NYC for the next 10 days, so I'm not going to have any time to blog. I'll see what I can do about getting internet access to keep up with the moderation, but no guarantees. I'll be back after Memorial Read More...
Posted Monday, May 15, 2006 11:15 AM by LarryOsterman | 6 Comments

Making things go fast on a network, part 2

Sorry about the delay - I got nailed by a nasty sinus infection on Tuesday night last week that took me out until today. In my last post I started discussing some of the aspects of networking that need to be understood before you can make things "go fast" Read More...
Posted Monday, May 15, 2006 11:14 AM by LarryOsterman | 11 Comments

Making stuff go fast on a network, part 1

So yesterday , I commented on how I was glossing over lots of details about how to make a client/server protocol operate efficiently on a network. After I wrote it, I realized that while it's out of scope for a single post, how to make a client/server Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 09, 2006 1:22 PM by LarryOsterman | 19 Comments

Riffing on Raymond - Network performance...

I keep on doing this, clearly it's evidence of a lack of imagination on my part... Raymond's post a while ago discussed some of the problems with network latency (no, I'm not going to touch that particular can of worms). It's amazing how many people don't Read More...
Posted Monday, May 08, 2006 4:00 PM by LarryOsterman | 10 Comments

"Pippin"at the Fifth

I went to see the 5th Avenue Theater's production of " Pippin " last night. Pretty good production, wonderful minimalist sets and the typical great 5th Avenue talent (Keith Byron Kirk as the Leading Player was especially good). Pippin's an adult show, Read More...
Posted Sunday, May 07, 2006 12:23 PM by LarryOsterman | 4 Comments
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Why are computer games like restaurants?

I was chatting with one of the devs in my group a couple of minutes ago, and we got to talking about the economics of movie computer-game tie-ins. As we were chatting, I had this sudden realization. The economics of a computer video game are almost completely Read More...
Posted Friday, May 05, 2006 5:57 PM by LarryOsterman | 6 Comments

Riffing on Raymond - When caches hurt

On Tuesday, Raymond posted " A cache with a bad policy is another name for a memory leak ". Of course that immediately reminded me of a war story from back in the days of Exchange 5.0. One of the major features of Exchange 5.0 was an NNTP server. Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 04, 2006 9:35 AM by LarryOsterman | 12 Comments

What's up with Larry not blogging?

<me>Must make time to blog</me> You know it's bad when your co-workers stop by and ask why you've not written anything on your blog in a while. Mea-culpa, I've been utterly swamped working on putting Vista Beta2 to bed, and I've not made time Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 04, 2006 8:55 AM by LarryOsterman | 5 Comments
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