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I think du may be the most intolerable command in linux. The info is sometimes so important but it can take hours to get. So in a search for something better I came across enh-du which does seem faster but not by enough.

Managed to catch the commit here. Looks good enough to try on a production system in the not too distant future.

So another day devoted to traffic shaping, particularly as it relates to voip. That means playing with traffic shaping rules, often with a distinct lack of documentation, and then testing to see if they make a difference. So today I learned about HFSC after reading a quote in a discussion about HTB CBQ [...]

I know ekiga is pretty well known but I was trying some different problems (after being frustrated with certain aspects of ekiga) and I stumbled on twinkle which I’m liking a lot better.  Not only does it work better than ekiga and other free and open source softphones that I’ve tested, it also has security [...]

So it’s worth reading The performance test of 6 leading frameworks though I found it lacking. The methodology is so far removed from a real world scenario that it’s hard to be swayed by the numbers. The results were that Django comes out first in performance, followed by TurboGears and Ruby on Rails [...]