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In my weblog I've written an article about Big ISP, little ISP, local internet exchanges about what little ISPs can gain if transit ISPs join the local internet exchanges. Short version: the transmit ISPs can end up delivering your traffic much faster than what you pay for, but (of course) it is possible for the transmit ISPs to overcome this "problem" if they design their network properly.

The OpenBSD 4.1 Release Song can be found at the OpenBSD Multimedia Resources List.

The list is using the same sources as the other *BSDs Multimedia Resources Lists :-)

The OpenBSD 4.1 Release Song can be found at the OpenBSD Multimedia Resources List.

The list is using the same sources as the other *BSDs Multimedia Resources Lists :-)

OPTE is using LGL to make their graphs. Their website is at http://bioinformatics.icmb.utexas.edu/lgl/.

I have tried to get it running on Linux and FreeBSD, but it doesn't want to compile due to mismatches in their C++ classes. This is with gcc 2.95, 3.3 and 3.4. (See http://www.mavetju.org/~edwin/lgl.fail.txt for the full log)

Has anybody gotten LGL to compile on their machines? Or does know patches to get it working?

Thanks in advance, Edwin

It's a complete OS.
It's not a clone.
Everything runs faster.
It doesn't mess up with your MBR.
It does not come with a particular browser pre-installed.
It's always fun to run FreeBSD.

With DNS tracer, you can see how much damage they do:

[~] edwin@k7>dnstracer -s . -o blaat.burps.ploeps.thisdomaindoesnotexistabcdef.co m
Tracing to blaat.burps.ploeps.thisdomaindoesnotexistabcdef.co m via A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET, timeout 15 seconds
A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET [.] (198.41.0.4)
|\___ M.GTLD-SERVERS.NET [com] (192.55.83.30)
|\___ E.GTLD-SERVERS.NET [com] (192.12.94.30)
|\___ K.GTLD-SERVERS.NET [com] (192.52.178.30)
|\___ J.GTLD-SERVERS.NET [com] (192.48.79.30)
|\___ F.GTLD-SERVERS.NET [com] (192.35.51.30)
|\___ L.GTLD-SERVERS.NET [com] (192.41.162.30)
|\___ D.GTLD-SERVERS.NET [com] (192.31.80.30) Got authoritative answer
|\___ B.GTLD-SERVERS.NET [com] (192.33.14.30) Got authoritative answer
|\___ I.GTLD-SERVERS.NET [com] (192.43.172.30)
|\___ C.GTLD-SERVERS.NET [com] (192.26.92.30) Got authoritative answer
|\___ H.GTLD-SERVERS.NET [com] (192.54.112.30)
|\___ G.GTLD-SERVERS.NET [com] (192.42.93.30)
\___ A.GTLD-SERVERS.NET [com] (192.5.6.30) Got authoritative answer


Personal opinion: stupid idiots who wrongly mix political goals with technical capabilities. Just because we can doesn't mean we should.

The Linux version of BPF is not an obfuscation of the BPF code. It is a clean-room re-implementation of BPF by Jay Schulist of the Linux developers, sharing none of the original source code, but carefully following the documentation of the Lab's product.

Linux BPF doesn't use /dev/bpf (or any other device), making it impossible for people to run network sniffers (for a legal reason) without having to fall back to sudo and/or the root password.

See my page about tcpdump for mortals about it.

At least I now have a name to blame! Yay!

edwin@mavetju.org

spambot fool day

Or maybe take a look at this The Twelve Days of Code-Freeze

Or this:
FreeBSD songbook

/usr/ports/sysutils/pkg_tree

Manpage

Of course, it's not graphical, but it's the same sort of thing.

Mine too, because non-titanium frames didn't last long. The protective layer around them was corroded[sp?] away within a year due to the acid level of the sweat. Since I'm using titanium frames I don't have to worry about that anymore.

Oh, and it matches nice with my wedding ring which has a piece of titanium in it. The place where we bought the rings told us that he would never make this design anymore because it was very hard to get the piece of titanium on top of the whitegold.
thumbnail 1 and thumbnail 2. The big pictures can be found on the website too, but that was before I learned about the macro-option on the camera :-/

Mine too, because non-titanium frames didn't last long. The protective layer around them was corroded[sp?] away within a year due to the acid level of the sweat. Since I'm using titanium frames I don't have to worry about that anymore.

Oh, and it matches nice with my wedding ring which has a piece of titanium in it. The place where we bought the rings told us that he would never make this design anymore because it was very hard to get the piece of titanium on top of the whitegold.
thumbnail 1 and thumbnail 2. The big pictures can be found on the website too, but that was before I learned about the macro-option on the camera :-/

Just FYI:

The root-servers know where to find everything which is below the root (like com, edu, net, nl, au, cn, tw, us).

The gtld-servers (global top level domain, i.e. the non-country codes) know where to find everything which is like philips.com, freebsd.org and berkely.edu.

The country-code-servers know where to find xs4all.nl, org.au and co.uk.

In the past I've made a small tool called dnstracer (shameless plug) which shows you what queries your DNS server is doing to get the answer for a hostname.

If you play a little bit around with it you'll see how easy it is to live without connectivity to the root-servers.net machines, thanks to caching etc. Well, for the first two days that is :-)

That there sometimes is, or isn't, a release for FreeBSD is confusing.

If you see the time-scale it came in the ports-collection for the 0.9.6 release:

ftp.mozilla.org: Nov 21 01:10 mozilla-source-0.9.6.tar.bz2

In the ports-collection: Revision 1.74 / [...], Wed Nov 21 16:27:41 2001 UTC (4 weeks, 2 days ago) by sobomax: Update to 0.9.6. [...]

That's the same day!

Please wait a couple of days and get it from your own ports-collection or download it in binary format from ftp.freebsd.org (or your local mirror) in /pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4-stable/www.

About favicon.ico, I've written a small manual how to make them in a unix-environment

Checkout my CodeRed and Nimda spammer which I use every night to inform the owners of the domain (according to whois and DNS SOA record) and the administrative addresses related to that domain.

Been there, done that. Made a nice report of it at http://www.mavetju.org/ -> networking -> Getting contact info on the internet and Why Mail Fails.

Technically the internet works, administratively not :-/

Six years ago when I was looking for switching from OS/2 to (any) Unix I had the same problem. Single White Nerd looks for New Operating System. Clean harddisk available etc. I didn't understand how Linux worked (regarding organisation and development that is) and I choose FreeBSD because I understood how their development-model worked.

See http://www.mavetju.org/unix/whyIdontuselinux.phtml

I've made a small script to do this. It takes the hostname or IP address of a machine to find out information from the whois-database or the SOA fields of the zone.

It's available from http://www.mavetju.org/networking/tools.phtml as coderedspammer.

Don't think that this will solve your problems, because there are many many badly inconfigured mailers/dns-servers/whois-databases on the internet. See http://www.mavetju.org/networking/whymailfails.pht ml for an overview.

Edwin

I've made a small script to do this. It takes the hostname or IP address of a machine to find out information from the whois-database or the SOA fields of the zone.

It's available from http://www.mavetju.org/networking/tools.phtml as coderedspammer.

Don't think that this will solve your problems, because there are many many badly inconfigured mailers/dns-servers/whois-databases on the internet. See http://www.mavetju.org/networking/whymailfails.pht ml for an overview.

Edwin

I've made a small script to do this. It takes the hostname or IP address of a machine to find out information from the whois-database or the SOA fields of the zone.

It's available from http://www.mavetju.org/networking/tools.phtml as coderedspammer.

Don't think that this will solve your problems, because there are many many badly inconfigured mailers/dns-servers/whois-databases on the internet. See http://www.mavetju.org/networking/whymailfails.pht ml for an overview.

Edwin

I've made a small script to do this. It takes the hostname or IP address of a machine to find out information from the whois-database or the SOA fields of the zone.

It's available from http://www.mavetju.org/networking/tools.phtml as coderedspammer.

Don't think that this will solve your problems, because there are many many badly inconfigured mailers/dns-servers/whois-databases on the internet. See http://www.mavetju.org/networking/whymailfails.pht ml for an overview.

Edwin

I agree, the complex is impressive, but winter 2000 when I was there (read: july 2000 :-) the restaurant had a sign saying that it was closed forever and the museum didn't have any information really related to this complex.

Oh, and the security guard didn't want to let us go past the STOP sign...

http://www.mavetju.org/holiday/2000-au/index.html