I saw that the InfiniBand Trade Association announced the “RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE)” specification today. I’ve already discussed my thoughts on […]
First they laugh at you…
I found this article in “Network Computing” pretty interesting, although not exactly for the content. Just the framing of the whole […]
Poor choice of words
I just got a marketing email from drugstore.com with the subject “Diaper blowout: save on Pampers, Huggies, Seventh Generation and more.” If […]
Lazyweb: best Verizon data card?
I currently have Verizon mobile data service with a Kyocera PC card, and it works well with recent distros using NetworkManager. However, […]
RDMA on Converged Ethernet
I recently read Andy Grover’s post about converged fabrics, and since I particupated in the OpenFabrics panel in Sonoma that he alluded […]
Know anyone at Coverity?
The recent mention of scan.coverity.com at lwn.net reminded me that the Coverity results for the kernel (what they call “linux-2.6”) have become […]
Signs you may not be dealing with a straight shooter
A play in two scenes. DRAMATIS PERSONAE X – a senior manager X’s admin – keeper of X’s schedule Y – a […]
On over-engineering
I’ve been trying to get a udev rule added to Ubuntu so that /dev/infiniband/rdma_cm is owned by group “rdma” instead of by […]
Free Software Syndrome
While thinking about the discussion that my recent series of posts about the career benefits of contributing to the open source community, […]
The enemy within
I saw several interesting responses to my last post. I liked Val‘s succint way of putting the career impact of free software […]