Archive for October, 2007:

If VoIP kills phreaking, who are tomorrow’s engineers?


Published on October 29th, 2007
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“Ma Bell is a system I want to explore. It’s a beautiful system, you know, but Ma Bell screwed up. It’s terrible because Ma Bell is such a beautiful system, but she screwed up. I learned how she screwed up from a couple of blind kids who wanted me to build a device. A certain [...]

Making the right ipv6 noises


Published on October 25th, 2007
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I’ve been allowing the webcast of RIPE55 to mutter away in my ears all week and have let myself get distracted from time to time when the topics turned relevant to networks I operate or the chatter got interesting.  A bit like the end of today’s ipv6-wg session.
Six months ago I was quite sure that [...]

Making Round Robin DNS usable.


Published on October 14th, 2007
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I have been fairly consistently telling people a lie for the last ten years – and that is that Round Robin DNS can not be used for high availability. Its a view I have held pretty strongly, but two people have shown me techniques in the last week that have made me change my [...]

The most wrong ever RSS’d article.


Published on October 3rd, 2007
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Here’s an interesting statistic for all you web2.0 syndication fans. I opened my RSS reader this morning, and found what I am going to lay claim to as the ‘most wrong article ever syndicated in the history of RSS’.
It’s one line long – eleven words to be precise. Its wrong in every [...]