A toast to differences
Once upon a time, there lived a gardener. And he grew oranges and lemons. He did not eat enough of the lemons himself, so he sold them in the neighboring village - there they grew bananas, but they...
View ArticleA new name for you
The world is steadily moving away from exchanging the phone numbers towards exchanging the online handles. For example, getting people friended on facebook.This is quite annoying for me, because, even...
View ArticleStrange.
I am at St.Pancras, in the Eurostar lounge. Got a special friendly patdown treatment - maybe because I forgot some coins in the back pocket of the jeans. Never mind - I got used to "random checks" in...
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The ads that make your page beautiful
Maybe it's my humble page with links about situation in Japan, or my periodic scouting on japanese-language sites, I got myself a Persistent Sakura House syndrome. What is it ? It's an English-speaking...
View ArticleIndexing wikipedia data dump with ZF
I have decided to try indexing the wikipedia HTML data dump with my zettair fork.The specs of the machine: 8GB RAM, 8-core Xeon X3440 machine at 2.53Ghz.multicore nature of the machine did not really...
View ArticleCoursemare incorporated promotional video
I've created this one a while ago, but did not move it from xtranormal to YouTube. The happy spectators of my little "NAT vs. IPv6" fun were asking if I did anything else - so here it is. This time our...
View ArticleYour account has been compromised. Will you finally stop reusing the passwords ?
Logging into gmail in the morning, I've got a prompt to change my password, which mentioned suspicious activity with my account. When logging in, I saw the possible reason why.The MtGox bitcoin...
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I came up with a new word today: faceboob
(v) to faceboob (someone): to earn money off the the humans' tendency to be curious, as well as to their natural tendency to trust their friends - specifically when using the social networks. Example...
View ArticleYour IETF-writing will never be the same again
I've been reading up on SPDY today, and I noticed something interesting - the spec at Mike Belshe's github repo has the extension ".xml".So what, you say ? Given that it was rendered as the html output...
View ArticleMicrobenchmarking of luajit-based server (again: this time against lighttpd)
The other day inbetween the meetings I've ported my toy event loop experiment to use ljsyscall library.Here are the results of running of ab -n 100000 -c 1000. First let's make a baseline:lighttpd# ab...
View ArticleUploading the files to the VMWare ESXi server
Every now and then I need to upload the stuff like an ISO image to my ESXi server.Since I do not use windows, my only remaining option is the CLI - which is big and clunky. However, today I digged a...
View ArticleWant my attention ? Send me something useful.
[this is an expansion of my tweet earlier today.]Getting the email address of your users and keeping in touch with them is a classic technique. So classic that it's been mentioned in umpteen different...
View ArticleHow to create a cost sharing app using Google Spreadsheets
I want to document a solution to a practical problem: a few people may want to share the expenses of various kind in a fair fashion.The straightforward way is for everyone to just announce their...
View ArticleUbuntu 12.04 bugs/quirks I hit...
Overall, when using the 12.04 in a canned version, things are pretty good. So I upgraded my workstation laptop, which is running a more customized install - fluxbox as a window manager, with a...
View ArticleWhich IPv6 prefix length to announce in the internet ?
This is mostly as a notepad entry for myself, but putting here in case anyone finds it useful.The question is - "how long is the IPv6 prefix that I can announce?".Here are some links to help understand...
View ArticleHow does NUD compare with FHRP ?
Stumbled upon this link that compares the neighbor unreachability detection in IPv6 with redundancy protocols:http://packetlife.net/blog/2011/apr/18/ipv6-neighbor-discovery-high-availability/
View ArticleQEMU/KVM nested inside ESXi 5.0
Just a note to self, based on the success from the info found at http://virtuallyhyper.com/2012/07/installing-kvm-as-a-virtual-machine-on-esxi5-with-bridged-networking/ (Which has a much more detailed...
View ArticleReading temperature from /sys
Note to self, from http://shallowsky.com/blog/linux/kernel/sysfs-thermal-zone.html:$ cat /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/temp27800
View ArticleWiFi RoamTracker 1.0
The RoamTracker is a relatively simple iOS app that I needed for myself to do some debugging, and thought that it might be useful to the others as well..Basically it is a polling loop which every...
View ArticleifConfig 1.0 for iOS - a simple free utility to show the interface addresses
I've finished building and submitted to AppStore another nice little utility, which I have called "ifConfig" - it is a very simple way to see the IPv4 and IPv6 addresses assigned to the interfaces, and...
View ArticleRandom Ramblings about DDoS and content-oriented networking...
This is not intended to be original in any form, as usual, mostly to capture my own thought processes in an exhibio- (uh... the spell checker does not take any of the variants of this word but you get...
View ArticleA comment on an article "IPv6 focus month at ISC: Filtering ICMPv6 at the...
I've started to write the comment on an ISC article about ICMPv6 filtering (https://isc.sans.edu/diary/IPv6+Focus+Month%3A+Filtering+ICMPv6+at+the+Border/15367), but the text of the comment became so...
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HappyHouse
Cupcakes, quite literally.The boyfriend has kindly, and with an impressive degree of trust, allowed me to gatecrash his blog. What follows aims to be musings and notes on the more mundane aspects of...
View ArticleZFS experiments sketch - some interesting commands
This is just a "notebook/cheatsheet page" for myself. Just to store some commands I used for my ZFS experiments.zpool create -o ashift=12 tank /dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST31000340AS_5QJ0TXXH...
View ArticleISC DHCPD programming fun: (attempting to) install routes following DHCP-PD...
For testing, I need to run both the DHCPv6 server and the router on the single box, with the CPEs running behind it doing client DHCP-PD requests.As such box I am using a Linksys E3200 running...
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