Brian Pane

Bad: I lost my work-supplied Blackberry a few days ago.

Good: I alerted the IS/IT folks, and they were able to remotely disable and reset it.

Unseemly: This remote reset, I learned today, didn’t clear emails or calendar entries already on the device.

Good: A good samaritan found the Blackberry and attempted to track down its owner.

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Recently, needing a break from spreadsheets at work, I did some performance testing of lighttpd.  Using an HTTP load generator client without keep-alive connections, I soon ran out of ephemeral port numbers on the Mac that ran the client.  Once the connections in TIME_WAIT cleared up, I could resume load testing for a very short [...]