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academic/courses.markdown

@@ -13,9 +13,9 @@ In theory these are the areas I should have some amount of knowledge in.
 
 #### Washington University in Saint Louis ####
 
-This is a current listing of courses I have taken from Washington
-University in Saint Louis in partial fulfilment of a Ph.D. in Computer
-Science.
+This is a current listing of courses I have taken from [Washington
+University in Saint Louis](http://www.wustl.edu/) in partial fulfilment of
+a Ph.D. in Computer Science.
 
 * Computer Systems Analysis
 * Network Security
@@ -30,8 +30,9 @@ Science.
 
 #### Marquette University ####
 
-This is a listing of courses I took from Marquette University in partial
-fulfilment of a Master's of Science in Computer Science.
+This is a listing of courses I took from [Marquette
+University](http://www.mu.edu/) in partial fulfilment of a Master's of
+Science in Computer Science.
 
 * Independent Study in Embedded Systems
 * Independent Study in Parallel Algorithms

academic/index.markdown

@@ -23,10 +23,10 @@ I have taken through my academic career.
 My office is located in [Bryan
 Hall](http://eit.engineering.wustl.edu/map/map.asp), [Room
 419](http://eit.engineering.wustl.edu/map/Bryan/floor4.gif).
-I will have dedicated office hours Tuesday from 3pm--4pm and Friday
-3pm--4pm this semester.
+I will have dedicated office hours Tuesday from 3pm-4pm and Friday 3pm-4pm
+this semester.
 Otherwise, feel free to stop by to see if I'm around or send an email if
-you wish to meet (though I make no guarantees on availabilty).
+you wish to meet (though I make no guarantees on availability).
 
 * Assistant, Fall 2010, [CSE 361S: Introduction to Systems
 Software](http://arl.wustl.edu/~pcrowley/cse/361/index.html)
@@ -46,8 +46,9 @@ Appliance'' (PNA) that allows network administrators to closely monitor
 network traffic while providing line-speed (or near line-speed) detection
 of malicious content.
 
-* Michael J. Schultz, Ben Wun, and Patrick Crowley. ``A Passive Network
-  Appliance for Real-Time Network Monitoring''
+* Michael J. Schultz, Ben Wun, and Patrick Crowley. [A Passive Network
+  Appliance for Real-Time Network
+  Monitoring](http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ANCS.2011.46)
   ([pre-print](static/ancs2011-pna.pdf),
   [presentation](static/ancs2011-pna_present.pdf),
   [notes](static/ancs2011-pna.txt)).  In the *ACM/IEEE Symposium on
@@ -81,11 +82,11 @@ As such, one of the constant goals is to keep Xinu easy to understand.
   Interrupt-Driven Systems](static/thesis-2009.pdf)
   ([presentation](static/thesis-present.pdf)).  Master's Thesis, Marquette
   University, August 2009.
-* Michael J. Schultz and Dennis Brylow.  ``Adding Software Transactions to
-  the Kernel'' ([abstract](static/lctes2008-schultz.pdf),
-  [poster](static/lctes2008-schultz_poster.pdf)). Student Poster
-  Presentation at the *Conference on Languages, Compilers, and Tools for
-  Embedded Systems*, Tuscon, Arizona, June 2008.
+* Michael J. Schultz and Dennis Brylow.  [Adding Software Transactions to
+  the Kernel](static/lctes2008-schultz.pdf)
+  ([abstract](static/lctes2008-abstract.pdf)). Student Poster Presentation
+  at the *Conference on Languages, Compilers, and Tools for Embedded
+  Systems*, Tuscon, Arizona, June 2008.
 
 ### Side Projects ###
 

academic/static/ancs2011-pna.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+                     Notes from discussions about
+    ``A Passive Network Appliance for Real-Time Network Monitoring''
+
+Page 241 (3), 2nd column: "our software must first decode the [...] headers
+to extract the flow 5-tuple". Later examples show a 6-tuple, adding the
+network-protocol, the software _extracts_ a 6-tuple, but _hashes_ on the
+5-tuple described.
+
+Page 242 (4), Footnote 1: This number was derived using a packet trace from
+a previous version of the PNA kernel module in which there were only
+131,072 entries.  In the updated (> 8 million entries) version, the probe
+limit could be reduced even further without significant loss.