Daily Archives: September 26th, 2007

Throughput sensitive fputs/fwrite (in php)

I’d be glad for anyone who cares to look to read and comment on these functions. The idea is to be able to abort and retry, or fail, an operation on a slow link. I’ll work on fgets replacements tomorrow…

Anatomy of a mostly-dead network catastrophy

One of the things that you hear over and over again is that “the network is not reliable.”  You hear people say it, blog it, write it down in books, podcast it (I’m sure.) You hear it, you think to yourself “oh… that makes sense…” and you go on your merry way.  You’re developing your [...]