2021 IT Blog Awards finalist!
I was surprised but very honoured to learn that my blog was selected as a finalist in the IT Blog Awards.
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Lenovo Thinkpad T420: Another excellent, inexpensive Linux laptop
I recently purchased a used Lenovo Thinkpad T420 laptop to replace the Lenovo Thinkpad T400 I was previously using as my main platform for researching open-source network simulators and emulators. The T420 is a five-year old product but it offers all the ports and performance I need. Because it is well past its depreciation curve,
Use ImageMagick to quickly and easily process images for your blog
When writing a blog post about a technical topic, I often capture a lot of screen shots that I need to edit before adding them to my blog article. Usually I want to add a border around each image and I sometimes want to reduce the size of images that are too large. I want
Blog status report 2014
The occasion of my fiftieth post is a good milestone to pause and look back on the two years since I started blogging about open-source routing and network simulation. I will review the blog’s performance statistics and reflect on why I started this blog and what I want to do next. The chart above shows
Lenovo T400: now an excellent, inexpensive laptop
When I started researching open-source routing and networking software, I ran the open-source Linux operating system on a virtual machine running on my Apple iMac computer. When I wanted to experiment with virtualization technologies such as KVM, which will not work inside a virtual machine, I set up my iMac to dual-boot Linux and Mac
Google Webmaster Tools
Recently, Google temporarily dropped my blog from its search results. Since over 75% of my traffic comes from first-time users who find the site through search results, this effectively caused a two-day “outage” for my site. As I tried to understand why my blog was not findable in Google, I realized that it would have