Link aggregation is said to be one of the most widely misunderstood network-related protocols. The basic premise is that you can combine individual - not limited to - gigabit ethernet links to increase the total throughput. I've seen many tech "enthusiasts" jump on the LAG bandwagon, only to discover it doesn't work the way they imagined. Well, this time I ended up like them - except I actually made it work and learned a bunch of new stuff along the way.  Continue reading

This semester has been such a shitshow that I haven't had any time working on the site, much less writing posts. When I wasn't studying for all the lab classes and failed subjects I was busy finishing my project at the company I worked for so I could finally quit and focus on passing uni tests and exams.  Continue reading

How does one obtain music in the year 2020 AD? Nowadays you can buy or download pretty much all kind of music, streaming services like Spotify and Deezer or even Jejtube are popular as they offer an enormous repository of diverse music. But what about doujin music? Those are still mostly distributed as CDs and released in limited quantities. There are but a few people whose interest is to upload and share new releases, but they releases aren't everlasting and something is bound to be lost over time. This blogpost is to describe the suffering I went through and to show how hard is nowadays to obtain old content from the internet. The subject of my "experiment" is an album titled Girl's Talk from Nomiya Ayumi's (野宮あゆみ) and Rakuno Yue's (楽乃由重) doujin circle, honey☆bitter,anima; released at C76. I plan on writing a post about Ayumi's career, because she has some other equally obscure works, too.  Continue reading