For those geeky enough to remember the BOFH, here’s a modern-day (or Web 2.0 if that’s what you want to call it) variation on the same theme of dispensing evil, catastrophe-inducing advice to mind-numbingly stupid support requests.

For all that’s been said about Youtube’s massive content delivery infrastructure (in it’s post Google acquisition days), here’s a light-hearted look at what they were, or might have been like prior to that. From the days of yore when Youtube was still a (relatively) smallish start-up, Serverbeach bids a fond farewell to one of their [...]

For those of us who are (still) on Facebook, almost all of us that is, the not-so-recent changes in the structure of it’s homepage have probably changed the way we use and think of Facebook, whether we realize it or not.

I was cleaning up and reorganizing some of my things today. So I took the chance to take a few photos of the “after” part of the cleanup. The “before” part is kind of messy so I didn’t bother to take photos.

My Linux Box
Only the top-most box is in use.
It’s an old P4 desktop converted [...]

Look at the example output for the show ip bgp command below.

 7606 9837 9837 9837 18250, (Received from a RR-client), (received & used)
   198.32.212.61 (metric 20) from 203.17.96.105 (203.17.101.40)
     Origin IGP, metric 0, localpref 90, valid, internal, best
     Community: 4854:6002
     Originator: 203.17.101.24, Cluster list: 203.17.101.40, 203.17.101.22

 1221 2764 9837 18250, (received-only)
   203.62.252.39 from 203.62.252.39 [...]

Early this week a small Czech ISP, SuproNet (AS 47868) started announcing its prefix via a backup transit provider with an extraordinarily large number of AS (autonomous system) prepends, 252 to be exact.
Aside from sounding alarms all over the world with routers logging errors related to maximum AS-path limits, it also ended up triggering a [...]

I’ve been in China for awhile. The past 12 days to be exact.
I’m still pondering on what to write about next, as well as greater questions of where do I go from here.
Meanwhile, I just upgraded to Wordpress 2.7.1 with the automated upgrade tool. It works surprisingly well! Simply enter the FTP parameters (hostname, username, [...]

In a world where frustrations with technology have become a way of life for many who are unacquainted with the nuances and intricacies (or mundane stupidities) of electronic devices, it’s interesting to imagine how things that we take for granted today might have been viewed very differently several centuries ago.
Welcome to the world of Scroll [...]

Here’s a presentation I stumbled upon yesterday.

Failure is an Option – Geoff Huston at the Australian IPv6 Summit

Aside from the usual presentation (or nagging) on how IPv6 adoption hasn’t taken off as it was planned 10 years ago (the usual diagrams). This presentation discussed something a little different.

Here’s an interesting project that makes use of a community of BGP-speaking DNS slave servers to do anycast DNS.

http://www.communitydns.eu

Instead of having to run their own geographically distributed servers and deal with administrative matters like colocation and hardware maintenance, Community DNS relies on its members to run slave servers that run on a customized Linux bootable [...]