February 2012
13 posts
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my NETGEAR GS108 died overnight
My good old NETGEAR GS108 8-port GigE switch died overnight (2012-02-27/28). This Sunday, 26th, I was watching some Showtime VoD on U-verse, and noticed some occasional packet loss, which, apparently, completely interrupts the stream with U-verse PoS STB. Also the packet loss was present at the very same time on my laptop, trying to ping www.google.com, but was very-very minimal. What I...
Feb 29th
5 tags
AT&T 6rd support is long as live (a well hidden...
written for, and discussion at, http://www.tunnelbroker.net/forums/index.php?topic=2293.0 It would appear that AT&T has quietly added IPv6 support through 6rd for, seemingly, ALL of its customers without telling anyone (specifically, without telling any of the said customers). All existing customers “are not affected” and don’t know about any such support, since...
Feb 23rd
"being a novice again"
It’s funny how the rank and seniority within a given organisation or community is not necessarily attached to the person, but to the person solely within the context of the said organisation. What happens when you switch or are on a visit elsewhere? What’s the best way to take your achieved “rank” and seniority with you? Regardless of the new community — be that study,...
Feb 21st
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firstvds перешёл на cloudflare!
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=www.firstvds.ru Какой позор! Перешли на CloudFlare, вот смеху-то! Хостер, называется! Собственно, совершенно не удивительно: как оказалось, на их глючной ISPFreeBSD8 нет поддержки динамических правил ipfw, т.е. “keep-state” и “limit” работать не будут! И от “setup” тоже толку нет! Из-за этих мудаков я в январе...
Feb 21st
2 tags
FreeBSD VPS: vr.org
Just found a seemingly absolutely great VPS provider I’ve never ever heard of before: www.vr.org! Last result on google for ‘FreeBSD VPS’ on the first page — http://www.vr.org/os/bsd-hosting/freebsd-vps . Their price structure is similar to Linode, but they start out at 256MB/10GB/200GB with 2 CPUs at only 9,99 USD. Have a Looking Glass, many DCs all over the world, including...
Feb 19th
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My new In-N-Out preference: 2 HAMB "K M Inst"
I started In-N-Out with a cheeseburger and a fries. Since I usually have just water to drink, I’ve switched to two cheeseburgers, triple-extra tomato, well-done, plus fries—light. However, it was kinda a bit heavy, and looking over at the Nutrition Facts, 25 grams of saturated fat, where the daily intake is supposed to be 20 g. Way to make it healthier? 0. Cheese. Turns out,...
Feb 19th
2 tags
Undercover Boss on CBS
I’ve been watching Undercover Boss on CBS VoD in the last month or so, and I have formed several very strong impressions that are evident throughout the series. 0. “Overpaid” individuals like the CEOs have absolutely zero skills to do the low-paid level jobs. Seriously. I highly doubt I myself could ever be successful at flipping burgers or getting the pool clean, 10 hours a...
Feb 19th
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AT&T IPv6 latency in Bay Area: Local IPv6 around...
I’m on AT&T’s IPv6 network in San Jose, CA, and I’m trying to find the best edge nodes latency-wise. Here’s what I have so far, California-wise. % alias traceroute6 traceroute6 -w2 -l % traceroute6 ipv6.akamai.com traceroute6 to a152.i6g1.akamai.net (2600:5:3700:2::c703:730b) from 2602:306:37cY:YYY0::1, 30 hops max, 12 byte packets 1 2602:300:c533:1510::5...
Feb 17th
4 tags
AT&T U-verse DNS: Cannot resolve IPv6-only zones.
There seems to be a bit of confusion over which DNS servers the IPv6-enabled customers are supposed to be using. I found that using the regular recursive DNS servers (-4 dnsr{1,2}) from the non-IPv6-enabled-2Wire directly on my OS X does work on resolving AAAA records, but ONLY if the auth NS servers for the domain zone in question are available over IPv4. Please note that in the scope of this...
Feb 16th
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6rd just works indeed, even when your OS doesn't...
Over at my FTTU and IPv4-wise, my ZyXEL router stopped working around midnight today (2012-02-15T00) for good, and the connexion seemed quite dead when trying to revive it directly at the ONT with an OpenBSD netbook, too. 2Wire PoS has been disconnected for several months, but I guess they do have that crappy authentication going on after all? Had to put the 2Wire PoS back into service, leaving...
Feb 16th
2 tags
market dominance
The best thing that you could be doing with market dominance is making a change for the better. What did Apple do with its market dominance? It killed the CPU-hungry and battery-unfriendly Adobe Flash technology, and adopted open standards that any other manufacturer can implement, too, for increased interoperability and convenience of everyone involved (other than Adobe, of course, as well as...
Feb 13th
I had a funny dream last night...
I had a funny dream last night (Saturday to Sunday, 2012-02-04/05 PT). I was somewhere like in Europe, and there was something like a tsunami, and I was on a cruise boat (like those we have in Russia), and trying to take the pictures of the thing. And then hiding in the basement of some office-like building… Surprisingly, I just discovered there was an earthquake with a predicted 1 metre...
Feb 6th
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at&t U-verse 6rd in Santa Clara County
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,26841639 Is at&t for real? printf "%02x%02x:%02x%02x\n" 76 220 xx xx ; printf "%02x%02x:%02x%02x\n" 99 124 xxx xxx 4cdc:20yy 637c:YYYY From MSK. # traceroute6 2602:304:cdc2:0yy0::1 ; traceroute6 2602:306:37cY:YYY0::1 traceroute6 to 2602:304:cdc2:0yy0::1 (2602:304:cdc2:yy0::1) from Z, 16 hops max, 12 byte packets Skipping 2 intermediate hops 3 ...
Feb 3rd