Writings on various topics (mostly technical) from Oliver Hookins and Angela Collins. We currently reside in Sydney after almost a decade in Berlin, have three kids, and have far too little time to really justify having a blog.
Disclaimer: Most of this post was written in 2014, but it's been languishing in my drafts folder for a long time and I thought I'd push the publish button rather than waiting to perfect it. The original context was that I was attempting to perform integration testing on a client application that needed to handle a variety of different network behaviours - including TCP resets. I mulled over how…
And now a break from my usual programming-related posts to bring you something back on the sysadmin side of the fence, for a change. I'm in the process of setting up a new VPS for myself, and probably will move my blog over to it when it is all set up. I say VPS, but really it is an OpenVZ container (which I guess passes for VPS just about as well). The critical difference is that you are running…