LonnieOlson

I discovered a problem with Virtual machines and traffic being broadcast out all switches and switch ports. Any traffic sent from the host machine to his guest machine was broadcast out *all* ports on *all* switches in the subnet.
The VMware Forums have detailed the reason for this problem, but I will summarize.
VMware has a limitation [...]

Occasionally I need to play with an experimental machine using VMware Workstation on my Linux host. The virtualizaton already sanboxes my disks, memory, and other resources. However I only have 3 choices for networking: Bridged, NAT, and host-only.

Bridged is often unacceptable for experimentation due to it’s unrestricted nature. It also [...]

I discovered today that I left my [tag]procmail[/tag] deliveries logging all kinds of information. I had logs that went back a month and a half. I thought why not parse them up, and generate some [tag]stats[/tag].

My procmailrc sorts most of my mail into folders for me. When I was writing the script [...]

The flat green plateau was a bittorrent I left on, and the massive mountain is Tor.
Last week I used quite a bit of bandwidth on my colocated server. Part of it was due to leaving a bittorrent of a few episodes of “Weeds” running for a few days. Those sure are popular, [...]

If only I could move to Boston.
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