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		<title>Virtual Box Notification Applet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the really powerful features of Virtual Box is that it lets you start VMs in a headless mode. You can connect to the VMs using RDP or just let them run in the background and do their job. The problem with running a lot of VMs in headless mode is trying to determine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>USB 3.0 Module XHCI Breaks Suspend on Linux</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just got a brand new Lenovo ThinkPad W510 for work.  It&#8217;s a great machine.  Really fast.  Unfortunately, it hasn&#8217;t been suspending for me in Linux.  It starts to suspend and then fails.  It turns on the Linux module, XHCI, used for USB 3 is broken. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/522998 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=623573 To remedy the problem, I just did: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.toadhead.net/index.php/2011/02/17/usb-3-0-module-xhci-breaks-suspend-on-linux/</link>
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		<title>CPU/Thread Affinity in Java</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been reading about Receive Packet Steering on Linux. I have heard anecdotal evidence that this can greatly improve performance. It made me wonder if you could improve performance even more by telling the kernel that you want the thread the processes the IO for a particular interface to run on the same CPU that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.toadhead.net/index.php/2011/01/22/cputhread-affinity-in-java/</link>
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		<title>Web Socket protocol support in Java using JBoss Netty</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been playing with Web Sockets using Google&#8217;s Chrome browser. Web Sockets, put simply, is a really nice way for a web application to talk to a remote server and allows the remote server to talk back. There are currently various ways of doing this with using Comet. But let&#8217;s be honest. Comet is a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.toadhead.net/index.php/2009/12/19/web-socket-protocol-support-in-java-using-jboss-netty/</link>
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		<title>Performance comparison of Apache MINA and JBoss Netty Revisited</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been meaning to post these results for a while and with the Thanksgiving break here in the US, I have time to finally do it. When I ran my my original comparison, both the tests and databases were running on the same host connecting over the loopback interface. Using the loopback interface is a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.toadhead.net/index.php/2009/11/25/performance-comparison-of-apache-mina-and-jboss-netty-revisited/</link>
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		<title>Why is DataInputStream.read(byte[] b, int off, int len) declared final?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Why is DataInputStream.read(byte[] b, int off, int len) declared final? Stupid. Stupid. Stupid.]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.toadhead.net/index.php/2009/06/20/why-is-datainputstreamreadbyte-b-int-off-int-len-declared-final/</link>
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		<title>Utah Google Technology User Group</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am a big GWT fan and am excited about Google App Engine which is why some of my friends and I are starting the Utah Google Technology User Group. We&#8217;re just getting started and don&#8217;t yet have a place to meet but we&#8217;re working to get the word out. If you&#8217;re interested in participating, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.toadhead.net/index.php/2009/06/16/utah-google-technology-user-group/</link>
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		<title>Performance comparison of Apache MINA and JBoss Netty</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of my big complaints with Apache MINA is the high latency that&#8217;s incurred when sending data. MINA uses a set of I/O threads to handle reads and writes. This is typical of many non-blocking I/O frameworks. Netty is much more clever than MINA. In Netty, when you make a call to send data and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.toadhead.net/index.php/2009/03/03/performance-comparison-of-apache-mina-and-jboss-netty/</link>
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		<title>Van Jacobsen on Distributed Content Delivery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently saw this fascinating Google Tech Talk from Van Jacobsen. It&#8217;s a few years old but it&#8217;s one of those things I wish I would have scene years ago when I started grad school doing research in networking and the Internet. This talk really puts into perspective the importance of things like distributed hash [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.toadhead.net/index.php/2008/12/30/van-jacobsen-on-distributed-content-delivery/</link>
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		<title>My Picture on the Spring homepage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was just looking for some Spring documentation when I cam across this posting, http://springframework.org/node/654 that was linked from the Spring home page.  In the picture on the left, there&#8217;s a shiny head that I happened to recognize as my coworker, Jason Allen.  I looked a little closer and found myself in the picture.  I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.toadhead.net/index.php/2008/06/02/my-picture-on-the-spring-homepage/</link>
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