Posts Tagged ‘Australia

My system has a daily job to collect and aggregate the IP Blocks distributed by the five registrars into a single database, and then provide high-level WHOIS information for this data. If you want to try this yourself, the interface here.
On an extremely irregular basis, I aggregate the statistics from this data, and present it [...]

My side project, GrabPERF, is looking for a few good measurement locations.
Right now, there are only five measurement locations, two of which are in my basement, on my personal Internet connection. I am hoping, through this pledge drive, to find a number of additional locations. Areas desperately needed include:

East Coast, USA
West Coast, USA
Midwest, USA
UK
Asia-Pac
Southeast Asia
Australia [...]

Chatting with a friend in Australia, and I came up with this gem: “my code is like a tank”.
It’s slow, but built to withstand any sort of shit and abuse. I was describing the code that underlies GrabPERF. It was built to be ignored for long periods of time, performing a lot of self-maintenance.

Skype Me!

In: Life| Skype| Technology

24 Apr 2006

If you need/want to chat with me, you can now get me on Skype as well: stephen.pierzchala
UPDATE: Just talked to Ian Holsman in Australia. Other than some speakerphone-like reverb, it was like he was down the street. Ok, I know, I’m late to the party again; but Skype ROCKS!
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Soundtrack: AC/DC!

In: Life

17 Apr 2006

Ok, I look like a refined suburban husband and father. But I grew up in a small town in the British Columbia interior.
Now, for those of you who grew up in small British Columbia towns in the 1980s, you know that the hair was Mullet-extreme, the car was a black Firebird “ThunderChicken”, and the music [...]

Here are the IP Block and Address allocation by registrar, as well as the number of officially allocated IP Addresses in each country (with 65536 Hosts or more) as of September 22, 2005 00:30 UTC.
This data has been extracted from the GrabIP database

IP REGISTRAR BREAKDOWN

registry NUM_HOSTS NUM_BLOCKS
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arin [...]

Here are the IP Block and Address allocation by registrar, as well as the number of officially allocated IP Addresses in each country (with 65536 Hosts or more) as of August 29, 2005 00:30 UTC.
This data has been extracted from the GrabIP database

IP REGISTRAR BREAKDOWN

registry NUM_HOSTS NUM_BLOCKS
——– ———- ———-
arin [...]

Here are the IP Block and Address allocation by registrar, as well as the number of officially allocated IP Addresses in each country (with 65536 Hosts or more) as of August 17, 2005 00:30 UTC.
This data has been extracted from the GrabIP database

IP REGISTRAR BREAKDOWN

registry NUM_HOSTS NUM_BLOCK
——– ———- ———
arin [...]

I made the attempt. No one can fault me for that. However, I was defeated by the twisted, anarchic madness that is the ARIN database.
A step back: I was considering refining the GrabIP database to more accurately reflect the true countries where IPs are used.
APNIC, LACNIC and AFRINIC are all sanely managed. Countries and IP [...]

I love Smart Cars — Get Me A BRABUS
This idea rocks


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Stephen Pierzchala is one of a 10-year veteran of the Web performance field who also writes on topics that interest his non-linear world-view.

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