Tag Archive for 'UConn Network Security'

Apr '05 17

To Date or not to Date

Published on 5 years, 4 months ago in School. 1 Comment Tags: .

Disclaimer: No, i’m not talking relationship advice.

When I began looking at possible database schemas for storing NetFlow data in MySQL, I was worried about space. I was working under different assumptions back then (the numbers I had for data in was 1/100th what it is now), and I was thinking that perhaps I could keep the whole database under the 32-bit boundary (for old filesystems, portability, etc.). Now that the 2GB barrier is clearly broken with the sheer amount of data I’m dealing with, I’m not concerned at all with disk space – hard drives are cheap, or so says my boss. What does this mean for the schema? No more CPU-disk tradeoffs in favor of disk space. But does that also mean I can drop additional disk space, and a bit of CPU, for coding convenience, maintainability, extensibility, and ease of use?
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Apr '05 14

Enter NIC, Soon to be Watching You

Published on 5 years, 4 months ago in School. 1 Comment Tags: .

mv Frontend NIC

The move is official, then. NIC is to be the production name of the Network Information Center we’ve been working on this semester. With any luck, NIC will hit the UConn Network this summer. Stay tuned for more – including Lina’s first post, coming tonight!

Apr '05 2

Lappy Go Bye-Byes, Reloaded

Published on 5 years, 5 months ago in Day-To-Day, Geekdom and School. 0 Comments Tags: , .

Yup, It happened again. Due to a problem identical to that described in a previous post, my laptop was sent in to Apple for repairs. This time around, I wasn’t able even to grab my latest work off of the drive, and of course, haven’t backed up in a while. I hope to have the unit back by Thursday, 2005.04.14. Sad story is, I wasn’t even able to grab my latest work off of the drive before the machine sputtered and died.

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Feb '05 5

Charlie’s PowerBook down for the count…

Published on 5 years, 7 months ago in Day-To-Day, Geekdom and School. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

Looks like my powerbook is dead at least until a service technician can take a look at it. I’ll be sending it in on Monday 2005.02.07, and expect it back around Thursday 2005.02.10. One week without a laptop.

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