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Archive for March, 2016

Martin Fowler’s “Mocks Aren’t Stubs” – recommended reading

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/03/31

A classic read about Test Doubles: Martin Fowler’s Mocks Aren’t Stubs.

–jeroen

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Some links on recovery of drives on LSI megaRAID controllers.

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/03/30

Some links on recovery of drives on LSI megaRAID controllers.

–jeroen

Posted in LSI/3ware, Power User, RAID | Leave a Comment »

Some links on SSD RAID

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/03/29

In the future, I need to add my own experience as well. For now some links:

–jeroen

Posted in Hardware, LSI/3ware, Power User, RAID, SSD | Leave a Comment »

Two opinions on Netflix and blocking: they hate Netflix or contact tr@netflix.com and try to solve …

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/03/28

Basically there are two opinions on Netflix and blocking:

  • TL;DR: People use VPNs for security, Netflix fucks them up, they hate Netflix for that and just torrent that shit.
  • tl;dr If you have issues with Netflix on public Wifi, contact the provider and forward tr@netflix.com to them so they can settle issues.

I’m not a netflix user (or user of any form of DRM) as I really dislike the fact that DRM means for any reason your license can be ended. I’ve seen too many players going out of business or taking decisions turning.

So I buy CDs, DVDs, BlueRays or DRM-free media files. Now it’s my problem of making proper back-ups to ensure future access to them (:

The DRM walls and ladders war^w game has gone so far that in this case, Netflix is blocking even though the WiFi provider / proxy / VPN is in the same country like the below imgur image:

Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Cloud, Infrastructure, Netflix, Network-and-equipment, Power User, VPN | Leave a Comment »

difference between ADSLfiber and fiberfiber when both are @xs4all.

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/03/28

20150412 ping statistics from WiFi -> ADSL -> VPN -> fiber (where ADSL and fiber both are Fritz!Box machines having LAN-LAN VPN to each other):

PING 192.168.71.1 (192.168.71.1): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 192.168.71.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=63 time=19.190 ms
...64 bytes from 192.168.71.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=63 time=18.905 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.71.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=63 time=19.261 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.71.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=63 time=19.982 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.71.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=63 time=19.332 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.71.1: icmp_seq=5 ttl=63 time=26.800 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.71.1: icmp_seq=6 ttl=63 time=20.139 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.71.1: icmp_seq=7 ttl=63 time=19.498 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.71.1: icmp_seq=8 ttl=63 time=18.915 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.71.1: icmp_seq=9 ttl=63 time=19.200 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.71.1: icmp_seq=10 ttl=63 time=18.948 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.71.1: icmp_seq=11 ttl=63 time=19.524 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.71.1: icmp_seq=12 ttl=63 time=19.511 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.71.1: icmp_seq=13 ttl=63 time=20.417 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.71.1: icmp_seq=14 ttl=63 time=19.350 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.71.1: icmp_seq=15 ttl=63 time=18.690 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.71.1: icmp_seq=16 ttl=63 time=18.632 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.71.1: icmp_seq=17 ttl=63 time=18.912 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.71.1: icmp_seq=18 ttl=63 time=19.397 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.71.1: icmp_seq=19 ttl=63 time=19.257 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.71.1: icmp_seq=20 ttl=63 time=18.147 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.71.1: icmp_seq=21 ttl=63 time=18.601 ms
^C
--- 192.168.71.1 ping statistics ---
22 packets transmitted, 22 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 18.147/19.573/26.800/1.657 ms

same but LAN –> fiber -> VPN -> ADSL

Pinging 192.168.24.1 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 192.168.24.1: bytes=32 time=19ms TTL=63
Reply from 192.168.24.1: bytes=32 time=17ms TTL=63
Reply from 192.168.24.1: bytes=32 time=17ms TTL=63
Reply from 192.168.24.1: bytes=32 time=17ms TTL=63
Reply from 192.168.24.1: bytes=32 time=18ms TTL=63
Reply from 192.168.24.1: bytes=32 time=18ms TTL=63
Reply from 192.168.24.1: bytes=32 time=17ms TTL=63
Reply from 192.168.24.1: bytes=32 time=17ms TTL=63
Reply from 192.168.24.1: bytes=32 time=18ms TTL=63
Reply from 192.168.24.1: bytes=32 time=17ms TTL=63
Reply from 192.168.24.1: bytes=32 time=17ms TTL=63
Reply from 192.168.24.1: bytes=32 time=17ms TTL=63
Reply from 192.168.24.1: bytes=32 time=17ms TTL=63
Reply from 192.168.24.1: bytes=32 time=17ms TTL=63
Reply from 192.168.24.1: bytes=32 time=17ms TTL=63
Reply from 192.168.24.1: bytes=32 time=17ms TTL=63
Reply from 192.168.24.1: bytes=32 time=18ms TTL=63
Reply from 192.168.24.1: bytes=32 time=17ms TTL=63
Reply from 192.168.24.1: bytes=32 time=17ms TTL=63
Reply from 192.168.24.1: bytes=32 time=17ms TTL=63
Reply from 192.168.24.1: bytes=32 time=17ms TTL=63
Reply from 192.168.24.1: bytes=32 time=17ms TTL=63
Reply from 192.168.24.1: bytes=32 time=17ms TTL=63
Reply from 192.168.24.1: bytes=32 time=17ms TTL=63

Ping statistics for 192.168.24.1:
    Packets: Sent = 24, Received = 24, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 17ms, Maximum = 19ms, Average = 17ms

–jeroen

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