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Research on Dynamic Feedback in Network Load Balancing

As part of my 2002 Honours year in Computer Science, I've been conducting research into Network Load Balancing under the supervision of Dr David Glance. In particular, improving the performance of the Linux Virtual Server project by implementing dynamic feedback of server load information.

The results were presented at the 2003 Australian Linux Conference; the paper is available here (PDF, 95kB).

The 'feedbackd' project is an implementation of dynamic feedback, and is available from the code page.

Open Source Software in Tertiary Education Institutions

In 2003, David Glance, Alex Reid and I conducted a small survey and study on the use of Open Source Software in tertiary education institutions, this paper published in First Monday outlines the findings.

nfsim at the Ottawa Linux Symposium, 2005

Presented at the 2005 Ottawa Linux Symposium, this paper (co-authored with Rusty Russell) is a brief overview of nfsim's role in netfilter testing, as well as a general promotion of wider Linux kernel verification.

Slides available here, the paper is available in volume 2 of the OLS 2005 Proceedings.

Providing Dynamic Update in an Operating System

These papers (primary author: Andrew Baumann) cover some of the recent K42 work on dynamic update.

Setting up dual monitors on a laptop using mergefb

The mergefb function of the x.org radeon driver allows you to combine two monitors into one desktop. After setting up dual monitors, I've put a few instructions here.

Linux on a Thinkpad T30

I've put some things that were helpful to get Linux set up on a IBM Thinkpad T30 together here.

Sharing a console using screen

A short document on sharing a console session between two users is over here.