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My masters project involves testing a large number of webservers. In order to test a large number of webservers I would obviously need a large list of them - at least 100,000. I got such a list by applying as a researcher with http://www.ircache.net. They offer (free for researchers, pay for others) trace files from [...]

Part of my masters project work involves using network measurement tools to garner information about a path to a website. One useful type of tool that I don’t believe is used that often is a bandwidth estimation tool. These type of tools employ one of a variety of methods to estimate the available bandwidth between [...]

After spending four months in India, London was a night and day difference. The air was not clean but rather was filled with the scent of western cologne. I can’t say I enjoyed it any more than the dung and garbage lots I found in India, but at least this scent was sanitary. In fact, [...]

My friends at IBM India helped me put together my travel itinerary for the rest of my trip in India. They all agreed on one thing - there is no place more beautiful than Kashmir, but going there might be the last thing I’ll ever do. Kashmir has a long history of violence and unrest. [...]

I spent the next part of my India trip with a tour group based in Pune, Foliage Outdoors. I had joined Foliage Outdoors while with IBM on a trip to Tamhini waterfall, near Pune. I had a great time and noticed in their brochure that they were organizing a tour of The Valley of Flowers. [...]