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Archive of entries posted on December 2009

Per-Packet Load Balancing with Linux

The ISP I use at home and at work, Andrews and Arnold, support bonding of multiple lines with per-packet load balancing. Incoming traffic is handled by them using custom hardware and software – the control panel lets me select which lines should be used for each block of IP addresses and they then handle balancing [...]

Time Travelling Trains

The new National Express East Anglia timetable doubles the trains between Liverpool Street and Hertford East on a Sunday evening which is excellent – no more waiting around at Broxbourne for the Cambridge train to catch up if you happen to have got the direct train. The really shocking news however is that they seem [...]

Mapzen: First Thoughts

CloudMade have tonight launched their Mapzen flash based editor for OpenStreetMap. It’s officially described as a beta, but as they’ve made it publicly available and it is working against the live API and editing real data I assume that is more of a “Google beta” than anything else. The basic editing of roads and such [...]