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2026
2023
- Music Tonight1 pick to listen to.
- Partnering with Google Cloud Video1 pick to listen to.
- Best Music Video1 pick to listen to.
- Evening Music1 pick to listen to.
- Afternoon Music3 picks to listen to.
- Morning music3 picks to listen to.
- Wednesday morning music4 picks to listen to.
- Music Tonight3 picks to listen to.
- Music to Start the YearHappy New Year! Music brings happiness and understanding. And with that, let’s take a little trip together. Starting out with the legendary Toots Hibbert singing Country Roads, that may remind you of the original from John Denver. Toots brings a nice Jamaican flavor to the whole track and adds in his own uniqueness. Now let’s…
2022
2021
- The Week AheadI am excited about the upcoming week. It is a pivotal moment, personally and professionally. The 117th World Series starts on Tuesday in Houston. We do all this work in technology, to get to this point. The see the season reach a climactic conclusion. To have winners. To have a reason to try harder than…
- Memorial WeekendManually trenched the backyard (with a shovel… ouch!) about 60 feet in length to have electricians come and install ridged metal conduit to my shed for power. A few of the electricians that came to quote the job tried to talk me out of using RMC, and instead going direct burial wire. That seemed nuts…
- Monday RecapSome random thoughts on things: Most of the SPACs that I followed in 2020, have had a rough start in 2021. EV companies have also pulled back and there is certainly enough to be said that most of them are not making profits. I continue to be a supporter of TSLA; actually ended up trading…
- Latest – 4/28/21Played The Last of Us Remastered and The Last of Us 2 on PS4. I rarely play games, but when I stumbled onto these games – and I had a brand new PS4 in a box for nearly a year, I knew I had something to try out. These games are incredible and have more…
- NFT PurchaseI was interested in the process of NFT purchases and how they work in DeFi transactions. Tonight I purchased The Kings of Leon, When You See Yourself NFT. The process worked well for me, as I have some experience with Ethereum, wallets, transaction fees, gas, mp3s and all the associated understandings. The album sounds great.…
- March 9As spring nearly arrives, I thought it was a good time to upgrade my desk, get some more standing time in — and treat work as a task: get it done, and get away from it. The standing desk seems to already set that in motion for me. Went all out with the Uplift desk…
- March 7I fell off from writing. There has been so much on in various areas. Took the boat out for a motor cruise around the harbor a week ago. A February first! After spending time away from the cold (spent time in Florida), it was still a cold and isolating time back in NJ. Continued with…
2020
- 12/28/20Getting back to running has been fantastic. When it’s chilly or late at night, I just get on the treadmill in the solarium. I am working on getting back to running half marathons. I used to run a bunch of these each year. Maybe 2021 is the year to run a full — even if…
- 12/21/20On the weekend I repaired the Ariens Sno-Tek Snow Blower. The gas had went bad over the season, and it required a full flush. While I was at it, I replaced the spark plug. While I was at it, I cleaned the carb with Gumout. There is something therapeutic with taking things apart and putting…
- Week Recap – Dec 18The snowfall was decent in NY and NJ. Unfortunately, I didn’t do the preseason checks of my Ariens slow blower. I had bad gas in the tank and lots of gunk in the carb. Started to clean in; and while doing that we had some kids pop by looking to shovel. Gave them the job…
- The Week – Dec 14 2020Had the Tesla Model S repaired. The rear passenger window failed, as the cable that connects to the motor snapped. Apparently, it’s a thing. I chatted with the mobile tech that came out to fix it. He informed me that he was fixing a few today. While my car is no longer until full warranty,…
- Long range e-bike tripsI have an e-bike (Juiced Bikes Rip Current S) which is simply amazing. The range, the speed, the quality of the bike are all super impressive. With a 1000w peak power to the motor, this thing hauls! The range around towns for decent distance is there. It supports 70+ mile range assuming not too steep…
- Water FuturesInteresting that CME is now supporting trading of California Water Index futures. Interesting to see different takes on what this means to the world. Some folks have pointed out the potential impact on scarcity in water or traded water would create a potential scenario that implies worldwide risk to a basic resource (ie. rising price…
- On catching up on movies and showsDuring Covid-19, friends are watching a lot of shows on netflix, prime, disney+, etc; and it has become commonplace to share recommendations on latest cool movie, documentary, or tv show. Just based on viewing habits, I am so far behind everyone that I know. I still haven’t finished Game of Thrones, Ozark, etc. I really…
- Time on the shedThe shed is nearly complete. What started as a simple shed to store some tools, turned into a pool house. If there was one specific thing that was accomplished during 2020; at least on the home front, it would be this shed. It’s a 10×12’ gabled roof wooden building that sits off the ground and…
- Tesla Model S FOB Went CrazyMy Tesla Model S has been a dream to drive. Over the last two years that I have had it, I have had a few things that needed repair, (a door handle, etc); but this last issue was really annoying. It was quite simple actually — The fob must have been crushed in a pocket…
- On rebooting writingI used to write thoughts on nearly everything. It really helped to better formulate complete thoughts on all different topics; what is fascinating is that I was able to somehow keep nearly all of the old journals that I had over the years. I have Marble notepads from highschool with random thoughts on what life…
2017
2016
- Winter Wonderland and Sunday ThoughtsOn Snow Fortunately, the snow arrived as expected and we were prepared. I spent time connecting up the electric snow blower to move the nearly 2 feet of snow on the 125′ driveway. It took time to push through the snow,…
- Reduce. Reuse. Recycle.Here is my presentation at Gartner 2015 in Orlando; presentation starts at 15:00: Video comments
- Back at it[An image from the original post was not archived.] I have been away from my writing for too long long. It’s time I change this and make more happen creatively. It’s been nearly a year since writing on Truman.net but it…
2014
2013
- Survivor: Season 2013 starring Bashar al-Assad[An image from the original post was not archived.] Pop Quiz: Syria is (choose one): (A) Iraq in 2003 (B) Iraq in 1991 (C) Kosovo in 1999 (D) Rawanda in 1994 (E) None of the Above If you answered any of the above, it’s…
- The Big Meaning and Meaningless BooksI wrote this short piece of fiction in the year 2000, entitled, “The Big Meaning and Meaningless Books”. It was written by pen in a notebook, a few pages at a time at night, until finally I typed it up in LaTeX and then…
- Anthony WhalenAnthony Whalen . A brother, a cousin, a son, a nephew, a scientist, a designer, a dreamer, a friend, a philosopher, an intellectual. I am so proud to have known him, to have shared this planet with him; his passion and…
- Building a Net![An image from the original post was not archived.] It seems building a network is full of disaster, there are choices to be made more sticky than plaster. Most protocols talk but the new ones do not, and we don’t want…
- Ships in the Night Cause Me FrightThere is a common trend in networking and virtualization today: Make things automated . This is a positive step. For the longest, we have rewarded complexity. Take for example, the focus of most professional networking…
- Presentation at SDN Steering Group Meeting with Financialscomments
2012
- Traditional Protocols Matter with SDNFirst of all, I have been saying this for over a year: We have been doing SDN for a long time. We, as an industry, have been programming changes into our networks, with our own vision of what needs to happen, when it…
- Roundcube on Nginx+PHP5fpm+UbuntuAt some point in time I will give full details on how I managed to get this going. But the one thing that may save someone a bunch of time: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=620218 Which essentially…
- Electric vehiclesLately I have been looking at electric vehicles as a second car. I take public transport so having a limited distance car doesn’t seem so bad. The Nissan Leaf looks the most attractive, especially with incentive leasing…
- RainWell that ominous cloud sure let the anger of Zeus come down on our soil
- Weekend arrivesAs my son would ask, “is this a weekday or a weekend”. Oh the magic of Friday as it straddles both. To me Friday evening is the weekend; a time to breath a little deeper and a time to spend time with family. The week is…
- Waiting for the trainIt’s a hot day. 5:30 in the afternoon and the subways are packed; rubbing, sliding, and congestion. Heading home so I can make it back for a family dinner. The day went well, much work completed. There is always more to…
- Rubble in the Bronx Esquire-esqRubble in the Bronx [An image from the original post was not archived.]
- Finally Ditched GoDaddySwitched everything over to Namecheap.Com. It’s cheaper, their policies are better; it’s worth it.
- 28 July 2012I have been running Unix systems (Linux, *BSD, QNX, Plan9 , etc) for over 15 years and the truth about getting into the nuts and bolts of operating systems or rather any system of parts is that you learn a lot. If you…
- Switched from Apache to NginxStill learning this, but decided to modernize and go for the lightweight Nginx + php5-fpm to power my servers. The configuration of Nginx is far simpler (but more powerful) than Apache style configurations. This reminds…
- Back on the Linux wagonI have and do run Linux from time to time, and primarily have been partially interested in features available in Linux. My interest comes in cycles; back in 1995-98 I used to run snapshot kernels and custom tweak…
- Monday April 9After years complaining to Google about a blogspot account that purported to be my Blog, I have had it removed. It’s ironical that my method was to invoke the DMCA and refer to the content as being my own, since I have…
- quick updateI have been running a bit more since I arrived back into the USA. Pretty soon after getting back I ran a quick Cupid’s Run 5k in New Brunswick, which although it was snowing (lightly), was a lot of fun. I trained a bit…
2011
- Review : Netherland by Joseph O'NeillI finished reading Netherland by Joseph O’Neill this lazy Sunday afternoon - and the thing about this book is that there is a voice ( Hans van den Broek ) that just stays with you. You want to know what is happening on…
- French Media Laws Are ésotériqueFRANCE HAS BANNED the use of the words ‘Facebook’ and ‘Twitter’ from being spoken on radio or television unless they are part of a news story in accordance with an old law.” While the Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel…
- Wordpress Again!It’s been close to a year since I had a functioning wordpress system setup. I finally spent an hour to get the system installed on a new KVM instance. Over the last year I have been using twitter more often as a quick…
2010
2008
- running like a trainIn the cool East coast, below freezing air, I went running this morning; called up Phil to see if he was up for a run as well, and sure enough he was. I should have figured that his routine would be pretty full-on and…
- traveling back to usaAt the Qantas lounge this morning, about to fly back to USA; embarking on a 30+hr total travel time back to the east coast. Looking forward to getting back to the family. This time in AU was good; met up with lots of…
- Sunday 23rd 2008A rather relaxing weekend was had here in Melbourne; staying at the Hilton on the Park near Fitzroy Gardens. There is a tram stop outside the hotel that makes getting to the CBD easy. An interesting week so far with…
- EDGE to the rescue and a new abodeWe moved into our new house on Friday with the help of friends and family; by late evening Saturday we were already enjoying the place, some old and new furniture, and our little boy was having a good time checking out…
- How to convert Decimal to Binary to HexidecimalI thought that I should write this post after I began discussing a method to covert between these base 10, base 2, and base 16 methods of conveying numbers; and since Phil and I were talking about this today, I figured…
- nearest 6to4 relay from speakeasyHere is a traceroute to the nearest relay announcing 192.88.99.1/32 from the perspective of speakeasy’s NYC pop: [truman @ inanna : ~]>traceroute 192.168.2.199 [2:14:08 on 08-09-20 : pts/5] traceroute to 192.168.2.199…
- vmware and ipv6Lots of troubles getting IPv6 working on a bridged wifi connection with IPv6. It sorta works, but not really. Basically I can not reach the IPv6 router on the subnet. Then I stumbled upon this link:…
- securecomputing.net.au’s post on IPv6 securitySecure Computing Magazine states that IPv6 presents a clear and present danger to the security of many operating systems. As true as this blanked statement is, it also lacks the necessary qualification of the real…
- routed ipv6 with radvdI tweaked with a Juniper NS5GT running 5.4r11 for an hour or so to get it to setup a tunnel to Hurricane Electric. The IPv6 support for manual IPv6in4 tunnels is still a bit difficult to setup and I found that because…
- IPv6 connectionIPv6 from a local 6to4 connection [tboyes @ squidrock.local : ~]>traceroute6 dns.suspicious.org traceroute6 to dns.suspicious.org (2001:470:1f06:248::2) from 2002:4556:4e51::21f:5bff:fece:280a, 30 hops max, 12 byte…
- Migrating from EIGRP to OSPFSooner or later enterprises will reach a point where EIGRP is no longer appropriate as the routing protocol of choice for the IGP. This is sometime due to the buggy nature of EIGRP (stuck in active issues), the lack of…
- no sneakers for youSince I started running again I have focused on running as much as I possibly can; and since moving from Melbourne I had to ditch my old pair of Nike Free shoes (that is a long story in itself), but anyway those shoes…
- smallsmall. little. bird. sing your song. we will listen. create a story with your wisdom, child.
- Lincoln Arrives!Our baby boy has arrived on the 18th of August at 5:37am. Mom and baby are doing well.
- Notes, August 15, 2008Met up with Steve last night and went to ThaiNY over on 3rd Ave and 28th Street for a dinner and a few Singha, also introduced Steve to a decent US beer - Sam Adams. For dinner, the presentation was nice; a flaming…
- Notes, August 12, 2008Today went over to ShakeShack in Madison Square Park with my parents; somehow the other day Jenny and I stumbled upon the place which funnily enough Akira had mentioned as a place that we just had to visit. The line was…
- a nice night out in new york citycurrently we have a sublet in Murray Hill, otherwise known as Curry Hill for the plethora of Indian restaurants in the area. In this area you have to try “Curry in a Hurry”, which when we lived here (full time) was a…
- Notes, August 6, 2008Recently I received a copy of my credit report from our mortgage lender and although I have seen recent reports from all 3 bureaus in the past year or so, I did not pick up that a dentist whom I had refused to pay for…
- replace keyboard on mac book proThe good news is that replacing the keyboard (see my previous post on the issues I had) on the MBP was easy enough and now the laptop is back in business. If you ever have a part on your mac become faulty I highly…
- MBP takes on some waterAfter an unbelievable rain storm that swept into central NJ, the old victorian took on a lot of water as rain poured onto the soffits , made it’s way into the house, the roof, and then finally onto the desk: of all…
- 1980s Style Brick Phones on Ebayhttp://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=230272241939 “This 1980s-style cell phone is unlocked and will work on GSM 900 / 1800 /1900 Mhz networks in the USA, Canada, Europe, Australia, and Asia. (If you are…
- over to caliFlew to California yesterday evening; the schedule for Continental Airlines flights out of Newark was the main reason that I flew them to SFO. I am not used to flying without status with the airline, so waiting in the…
- Sunday, PERL, and IPv6An interesting post I just came across on a blog, “ Perl considered harmful ” states that if you are working with PERL and IPv6 applications you will need to check to see if each library is IPv6 compliant. It reminded…
- Checking to see if DNS server is using random portsdig +short porttest.dns-oarc.net TXT @localhost [10:39:33 on 08-07-11 : pts/17] z.y.x.w.v.u.t.s.r.q.p.o.n.m.l.k.j.i.h.g.f.e.d.c.b.a.pt.dns-oarc.net. “216.254.67.211 is GOOD: 26 queries in 2.7 seconds from 26 ports with…
- ipv6 and l2tp tunnelsRecently I was asked about wholesaling scenarios or cases where there is L2TP LACs that the service provider runs and individual ISPs that run LNS in a broadband environment. When IPv6 is being used, it is possible to…
- MBP 2.0 upgraded and the start of JulyIts been a few weeks since we arrived back in the US and already there has been so much going on; although I haven’t really been writing with as much regularity as I used to; the context of my writing has been technical…
- mac power suppliesanother mac power supply bites the dust. burning at the edge of the cable, the smoke began to eat away at the electrical tape. why do mac power supplies last only a short time? i have seen the original powerbook cables…
- mac mini is back to lifeThe PPC mac mini was stuck at the blue screen with the spinning wheel; and after attempting a few reboots it required the disk utility from the OS X boot disk. First step, needed to eject a DVD that was already in the…
- packing up wine in the closetFound a few decent bottles that were getting dusty; going to store these until at least the end of Winter: Trinity Hill Chardonney 2004 Nantucket Vineyard Merlot Wyndham Estate, Bin 555 Shiraz 2004 Burnt Spur, Savignon…
- street fighting mathematicsMIT open course ware now has the material for a brilliant class online, entitled Street Fighting Mathematics; it focuses on algebra, trig, and single variable calculus. I am deeply interested in this course because it…
- Using grep to find IPv6 connections in postfix logsThe following grep and egrep commands will match on IPv6 address blocks that have been assigned so far ( I updated this to match on the AFRINIC block ) : grep smtp /var/log/maillog| egrep…
- ipv6 smtp running for a few days nowSince I enabled IPv6 on Postfix and ensured the DNS records are correct, we have been sending and receiving email with various IPv6-enabled sites. So far it is looking good, even the TLS encrypted sessions are working…
- IPv6 services on suspiciousFinally got around to enabling IPv6 on postfix for suspicious.org. For the longest time the IPv6 tunnel was up to Hurricane Electric, and yet aside from ping6, traceroute6, and the webserver, we weren’t really using…
- scammer from craigslistJust out of interest I followed up with someone selling a Volkswagon on newyork.craigslist.org; the mileage was quite low and the price seemed almost too good to be true; but sometimes people need to sell a car quickly,…
- McCain’s primitive policy on CubaThis week McCain has stated that he would not meet with Cuban leader Raul Castro unless Cuban allow free elections. In my opinion, there are many countries of the world that the US has relations with do not necessarily…
- dont let the morning roll away from youWhat a morning; let me sum it up in bullet points: Woke up at 6am. Ran to Kinko’s to print Jenny’s itinerary. The Taxi Minivan (while being loaded) rolled down the street with the driver on the hydraulic lift at the…
- how to limit scp or ftp transfer speedsIn my honest opinion, the best ftp or scp client available is lftp . It is available as packages for most unix’s and of course since it is GNU licensed it is also available as source. It is a highly feature rich client…
- ipv6 and attacks?A security article on scam and cyberfraud stated: Companies such as McAfee, of course, are on the front lines in the fight against organized cyber crime. CEO and president Dave DeWalt outlined the latest trends for…
- Room2Read Girls Scholarship ChallengeOriginally published on truman.net. See the archived copy .
- perling out to make some xmlI rarely code in PERL these days; but I wanted to aquire some experience with some flash based graphs that read XML, so I figured that I might as well take some standard text and run it through my perl scripts to…
- xml fed swf graphsRecently I was sent a really cool link to a few free (or low cost) flash based graphing libraries that just rock. I started working with the gauge and chart tools from maani.us, and began creating my own xml data to…
- love in the time of cholera; a great readI have been a big fan of Gabriel Garcia Marquez since reading One Hundred Years of Solitude , and now again I have been impressed with the vivid picture painted by Gabriel Garcia Marquez in Love in the Time of Cholera.…
- J-Connect in Australasia on JUNOScript[An image from the original post was not archived.]
- replaced the superdrive in 1st generation MBPReplaced the superdrive in MacBookPro ; finally! The factory DVD burner slowly died last year. At first it stopped reading DVDs, then data CD’s had issues, and finally it gave up on reading any media. I was able to get…
- relays.ordb.org starts returning false positivesI was wondering why email stopped flowing in; and after reading through the log file I discovered the following: bendtel.net[66.39.170.122]: 554 Service unavailable; Client host [66.39.170.122] blocked using…
- learning docbooklately started learning DocBook to write a book about network automation. Writing the XML in TextMate; processing with xsltproc, and now just getting into Apache FOP to format into PDF. At first the whole concept of…
- a nice long weekendThe lovely state of Victoria enjoyed Labour Day, this Monday the 10th of March. I had the opportunity to spend the beautiful blue sky day walking around Melbourne, taking a tram with Jenny to keep the temperature down,…
- enum/e.164 and other goodies for the weekendFinally got around to setting up ENUM support in my dialplan on Asterisk. The real benefit to using ENUM is that it is pretty seamless from a user perspective; at least when it is configured correctly. ENUM works by…
- one time email addresses and what they yield(listening to Clay your Hands Say Yeah) … inspiring polyphony with a multitude of layers of audible vibrations. I picked up “Some Lound Thunder (2007)” probably in late July 07, and somehow it was lost in my archives of…
- finishing up ‘the power of one’The Power of One is a fantastic book that I have been paging through for the past few weeks although it has been on my reading list for 3 years. Anton, when he was living in NZ, before he packed up and moved up to…
- a few Internet search trendsI used google’s trend engine to see a few comparisons on searched terms over time: The word “sleep” versus “tired”. The Winner is “Sleep” OpenBSD versus NetBSD St. Thomas versus St. John ipv4 versus ipv6 fire versus ice…
- sundayHacked on getting Squid3 and Squid-HEAD to have enabled ipv6 support to seamlessly bridge between IPv4 clients to the rest of the v6 world. Suspicious.org is connected to the ipv6 Internet by way a GRE tunnel to…
- RTTNEWS deserves public spanking: market news agency quick to hit send instead sends people in a panicI was browsing through todays news from news.google.com, when I stumbled upon a story saying that Juniper Networks stock falls on CEO leaving; this is obviously not the case; the COO (Stephen Elop) has taken a job at…
- market and other thoughtsThis recent article about the loan industry is quite interesting and paints a considerably miserable outlook for borrowers or stock holders of the Countrywide / WM / ETFC / Chase/ Wells Fargo, etc.…
- a new year, a whole lot happeningPretty soon I really need to sit down and figure out the internals of Wordpress enough to construct my own theme that looks how I would like to format the site. In the mean time I found these decent theme and decided to…
- some old writing found on the interwebhttp://web.archive.org/web/20010501194542/www.truman.net/pubdoc/cisco-fwfs/ http://web.archive.org/web/20020523130618/http://www.truman.net/
2007
- couple thingslooks like the purchase of E*trade shares at five bucks and change was a good thing. i knew this company looked really good even with the bad press that Prashant Bhatia spread in his statement around the possible…
- ron paul video clipsIn this clip, Ron Paul speaks with Ben Bernanke about the weakening of the US dollar as the fed cuts interests rates to ridiculous levels which in turn creates inflation and the general loss of buying power and wealth…
- real audio couldn’t open audio deviceStrangely enough, real audio on OS X couldn’t open the audio device, and it looks like the issue was that some audio options changed inside [applications - > utilities - > midi ... ]. This link over at macosxhints…
- flying out againOver at Melbourne international again in the Air NZ lounge. Just enjoying the dinner, fish and chips to answer your question. Yes, the broadband is good, and its a good thing that I remembered to bring my retractable…
- freakonomicsI just finished reading Freakonomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner. This book takes statistics to a new level, away from the bland and grey colored pages of text books, but into a more interesting and delectable…
- flying back to wlgToday seemed t o fly by with a few conference calls and consuming large amounts of documents. I caught the tram from Bourke and Russell over to Spencer ( after meeting up with dave over at QV) then made it to southern…
- video clips week of 22nd OctOriginally published on truman.net. See the archived copy .
- lucattini’s for dinner and moreFantastic pasta and good atmosphere over at Lucattini’s. Highly recommended great dining over on Punch Lane off of Little Bourke St in Melbourne. More to write later; but feeling a bit tuckered from a day running around…
- mid octobermid october and i am back in melbourne working on some interesting network and application stuff; caught up with david, steve, and a.j.; ate some dinner at a korean bbq place (which name kinda escapes me), but I think…
- Broadband Network Architectures[An image from the original post was not archived.] Our book (BNA) is apparently doing quite well. I just found it on Target.com : http://tinyurl.com/yulxzb ; and as of today we are #4 on Amazon in the category of…
- mellow in melOver in melbourne this week. things are going well. lots of new things to do and see. Will charge the camera tonight so I can take some shots around town. Last night enjoyed a curry chicken at myThai rest. Pretty decent…
- scu/dcuBeen working with source-class-usage and destination-class-usage (SCU/DCU) for some recent project work; it is pretty cool what you can do with JUNOS policy to accomplish some complex data accounting based on pretty…
- a sad day in phuketBloomberg news is reporting that a Thai airliner carrying 130 people crashed in Phuket. A heart breaking day for the traveler’s families and a hard time ahead for the Thai people in Phuket. This will most likely affect…
- Habibi houmousFriday night we dined at Habibi in Wellington. Lebanese food warms my appetite and the servings and presentation at Habibi do great satisfaction to the hungry restaurateurs. The meals were a tad pricey and the beverages…
- tuku plays wellingtonLast night we attended the Opera House to see Oliver “Tuku” Mtukudzi play some of his new music from his album Tsimba Itsoka as well as some of his classics. I got into listening to his music after reading about him…
- flat white with side of netAfter a fire alarm today at the office, I went over to the local coffee shop and kept working on some emails that needed to go out this morning. Signed up for 70M’s of volume usage with CafeNet in Wellington. A speedy…
- papers pleaseAn interesting article I just read that was recently slashdot’ed / boing’d / and all sorts of linkage. http://newsite.michaelrighi.com/2007/09/01/arrested-at-circuit-city/ The personal website of the michael righi…
- a cd on a dremelThis is insane, stupid, but pretty funny at the same time: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7223556731987688515&q=
- decoder ring and moreThe wind in wellington is strong and gusting while the inside of my house is nice and toasty warm. Listing to Decoder Ring ( somersault ), which is a truly inspiring epilogue of whatever you happen to want it to mean…
- phone line is back in bizThe phone lines / DSL line was severed for my neighbor and I. It appears that someone slashed through a cable that run through a hallway and thus took down our lines. I went down and patched it up tonight and…
- selinux rantsAfter configuring Apache 2.x on a redhat enterprise system for a little while, I realized that no matter what I did to enable UserDir module in Apache it did not take effect. Finally I remembered that the linux is…
- back from aklWent up to Auckland today on AirNZ; next time I should use google maps to find exactly where the destination location exists. I paid a $25 cab fee to take me 5 minutes away (flat rate from airport) to a logistics depot.…
- logical routers in junosLogical routers are really amazing. I was able to build up a whole 13 router MPLS domain with a few route reflectors and keep all of this inside a single M10. The best part about Logical Routers is that each logical…
- listening todayListening to The Cinematic Orchestra , Ma Fleur is the warm analog melodies that are required to set the mood for grey Sundays that are filled with other tasks. The music plays in the background and paints the direction…
- american english and nz englishSpeaking with a few co-workers, we diverged onto the discussion of “correct” pronounciation and “correct” spelling of English. As we are all products of colonies in some fashion or another, we would only be incorrect in…
- architecture in helsinki[An image from the original post was not archived.] The latest from Architecture in Helsinki, Places like This, is a musical fiasco with a plethora of images and sounds of polyphony. Heart it Races is a fantastic track…
- ospfv3 and ipsecToday a co-worker asked me about setting up the appropriate remote-gateway field in IPsec for the SA with OSPFv3 on JUNOS. Upon looking a bit deeper at this configuration, it appears that OSPFv3 with IPsec is used for…
- junos ccc layer 2 switching on a single PE[An image from the original post was not archived.] Similar to L2VPN, circuit cross connect is a good way to quickly build up ethernet switching on a single MPLS PE. It’s very easy to build CCC connections. Here an an…
- jpod[An image from the original post was not archived.] Douglas Coupland’s new book JPod has caused fits of hilarious and bizarre laughter and I confess that I too, shared in this laughter by reading his latest book. This…
- graffiti labs and some random ‘net musings[An image from the original post was not archived.] SomehowI stumbled onto some YouTube clips relating to LED throwies, which are being used in some urban areas to “change their surroundings”, by creating magnetic LED…
- the wii just rocks[An image from the original post was not archived.] Matt dropped off a wii for me at the office; this thing is killer. The sports games are so much fun; we played Bowling and boxing tonight and I was thoroughly…
- network delayTake a look at these traceroutes to suspicious: river:~ tboyes$ traceroute dns.suspicious.org traceroute to dns.suspicious.org (216.254.67.211), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 192.168.2.1 (192.168.2.1) 3.615 ms 5.729 ms…
- back in nz, and the magsafe adaptor burnsFinally made it back into New Zealand. Flew Singapore Airlines on a leased Boeing 747-400. Was playing a game of Command and Conquer : Generals on the macbookpro when the MagSafe adaptor started arching and started…
- the phuket problemMissing the flight out of Phuket caused a slew of troubles in connecting flights that I am only starting to catch up on. Apparently there are a few major conferences in Asia that have caused many of the airlines to be…
- almost departed, and the tug of war[An image from the original post was not archived.] I was pulling out on MI755 out of Phuket to Singapore when the tug which was pushing the plane back out of the gate to the runway had an accident with the plane. The…
- nyc’s steam systemI was thousands of miles away from manhattan when I typed in news.google.com and read the top news story surrounding the steam pipe explosion on 41st street in manhattan island. Then I started thinking, that although I…
- phuket; heading homespend a few days in phuket, thailand for a regional company gathering. The food: spicy and fantastic. The spicy dishes and the plethora of seafood choices made my mouth water with delight. Yngwie, Luo Hua and I took a…
- yeah yeahPicked up some new components and finally got around to building a new computer. A PC?! Yeah why not, as it seems like the right choice to run a whole bunch of VMware instances or maybe even some Xen instances for some…
- some new and enjoyable music[An image from the original post was not archived.] Spent some time listening to the May 2004 Album, Instant PIG, from Korean/Canadian band Clazziquai . The group is more a project than a long lived band with a…
- Married!We (finally) got married in NYC in Central Park! It was amazing that we were able to pull off all the planning in the last few weeks before our wedding. It was a beautiful ceremony and we had an adventure of a…
- just in case you were thinking of hunting via the internet in NJI was reading through recent bills that were proposed or passed by NJ representatives.. Senator Henry McNamara covered off this one … http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2006/Bills/S1000/574_S1.HTM The Senate Environment…
- sunday, 25thi dropped a message over to the freenum.org folks to setup a wildcard NAPTR record to aid in mapping our (suspicious.org) internet telephony administrative domain within the enum-like domain. it’s pretty cool. we will…
- 15 Feb 07so i am compiling up asterisk 1.2.15 for another host that will terminate the SIP calls from the public via our TRIP assignment suspicious dot org. Suspicious.org has the assignment of 422, so we will map a few…
- 12 feb 07spending some time cleaning up the harddrive by copying off some media files that have been hanging around for some time. i mostly have tv episodes in xvid that I bring on flights. Just caught up with Prison Break…
- Chatting with Yhosvanni from CubaHello Yhosvanni, I would be happy to provide enough information to you to help in your understanding of the technologies. Very nice to hear from you, all the way from Cuba. I am originally from around New York, and now…
- the week to clean up the bookThis week I have a major task a head of me, and that is to finish up the details in the book. Book you ask? Yes Broadband Network Architectures is almost finished; Chris Hellberg and Dylan Greene, and myself have put…
- we are on amazonBroadband Network Architectures Date: Feb 6th, 2007 · Comments RSS · Tags: update
- trying out wordpressfor over a year now i have used the gracious bits of code provided on blogspot to host my site. when moving things around between the various suspicious servers, it made sense to just choose a free site that worked…
2006
- 17 May 2006Upgrading the mac mini at the moment to 10.4.5. For some reason I never had the chance to upgrade this box in the past, so it ran 10.3 until tonight. Also, I plan to install Darwin Ports, then install openvpn2 so I can…
- Woke from the SlumberWoke up this morning with Calls and SMS messages hitting my cellphone and Blackberry with messages of a Tsunami warning to New Zealand. Glad to hear that Tonga is OK after the nearly 8.0 earthquake.
- Local Loop to be unbundled in New Zealandhttp://www.beehive.govt.nz/ViewDocument.aspx?DocumentID=25636 New Zealand is going LLU. Should be quite interesting.
- Flying out to AustraliaFlying out to Australia tomorrow. Just got a call back from Qantas telling me the flt has been cancelled. Quickly booked through Air New Zealand . Early morning flights are a pain, but hopefully I will be able to bang…
- Wrapping my hands up in PythonI am coding up a quick script to pull some stats from a CLI in JUNOSe. I used to write a lot of PERL, from standard regex parsing scripts, socket programming, and various network related applications. As of late I have…
- 2 days that feel like 20Had a great weekend trip that started out 7am Saturday Morning. Took a flight up to Napier, NZ. A quick 40 minutes from Wellington Airport on Air New Zealand. Spend time walking around the Art Deco city of Napier,…
- April 21 2006I ordered the new Blackberry 8700c, which is not available in New Zealand at this time. I am having it shipped here from the USA, for a fairly reasonable price. I have been looking for the perfect phone/pda thingy for…
- April 16 2006A good relaxing day today; woke up late; read the Dominion Post cover to cover, then cleaned up the home office. Passed my Access Protocols Chapter to Chris on the weekend; I need to add the DHCP section to finish it…
- Router Vendors by the PlentyI just did a search on google for some random BRAS-centric keywords, and up pops Network Equipment Technologies ' new SCREAM 100/50 specifications. This new product was interesting to me because it uses a Cisco IOS…
- Start again...Things are getting interesting: finishing up a contract tomorrow. Possibly renewing with the folks that I am working with now, or taking a little stint in Hong Kong. Looking forward to some change. My buddy Teong has…
- ALA and JNPRTheStreet.com wrote an interesting article on 22/3/06 about Alcatel eating away at Juniper's business. See: http://tinyurl.com/gsq3r The article has some points that are valid, for example Alcatel has a strong ethernet…
- puff-a-mint pattie gets crunchedI thought it was quite amuzing that a company, by the name of Beyond Bomb, operating in Oakland, California was manufacturing marajuana-laced candy and softdrinks. NBC reported that the drugs were laced into the…
- wtc memorial thoughtsThe work to build the memorial pools on the voids of the two towers is to start soon. I like the idea of water in the design. I looked through some of the designs that were submitted the the Lower Manhattan Development…
- Fat Freddy's Drop and Back to the fluffy cloudsOn the weekend, walked over to Waitangi park to catch a good concert by Fat Freddy's Drop. Real nice to see them live. Big thanks to Paul for the tickets! Had a good time there; had a Tuatara pilsner, and then took a…
- Perth, AustraliaOverall I have been very impressed by what Perth has to offer. I am sitting by the river right now, watching sailboats cruise up and down the river on the mild breeze. The city is sprawling, with large towering…
- Day 3 at APRICOT 2006Over in Perth now. It's hot, almost too hot! I gave a talk at APRICOT 2006 on Broadband and Triple Play solutions. You can grab the presentation here . The talk went well, and I felt like it touched on some topics that…
- voodoopadVoodoopad is simply the best way to manage data on your laptop. A personal wiki, and brain mapping tool all in one. I already feel so organized; I think I will throw all the papers on my desk out! This weekend having a…
2005
- Script Generator[An image from the original post was not archived.] Finished reading this book early this morning. Its a good read, an intriguing story line, and a novel concept in writing. I enjoy details. Lots of little stops and…
- update on things, and the current spam situationI am in the process of moving a handful of domains from an existing server that I maintain, over to another server. I have had some of these domains since 1998, and provided accounts for close to 50 close friends. The…
- making it happenWell, I am pushing hard on a few projects that I want to accomplish this year. It's not easy, but anything that is worth anything requires effort. I am writing a whitepaper for work, which is actually quite interesting…
- Kung Hei Fat Choi! and Waitangi Day!I am not sure if more picture perfect days could exist, but I was awestruck at the beauty of today. A good lazy day to awaken after watching Magnolia last night after the fireworks on Wellington Harbour. Woke to a blue…
- Back from the second day of sevensExhausted but content. I had a great time at the games today. Well, we got there in the afternoon, say 3ish, and just got back at close to midnight. New Zealand crushed Argentina in the final match, although things got…
- Lucky 7's[An image from the original post was not archived.] I was lucky enough to score some tickets to the New Zealand International Sevens game. It's two days long, with lots of matches, and a whole lot of fun. Everyone…
- shaken out of slumberToday I woke to an earthquake shaking the bed and making a most interesting rumble. It turns out it was a 5.4 that struck the Wellington and Wairarapa. More details here And Here
- ipfw firewall and rate-limiting icmpI was pleased that I was able to get the FreeBSD ipfw firewall to provide rate-limiting for ICMP and basically was able to apply a basic set of filtering rules for a server recently. It's been a while since I spent much…
- Back to the grindstoneSitting at the computer this morning, at home, about to head to work after a great weekend. I spent the weekend doing some biking around the harbour, worked out at the gym when it was a bit overcast. On Sunday, we met…
- enjoying the sunshineWhat a wonderful day today was. A brilliant blue sky, no clouds to be seen, warm weather that fills you with hope. I woke early, picked things up around the apartment as the real estate agents were stopping by with…
- Music of the Yasawa Islands, FijiLast August I took a trip to the Yasawa Islands of Fiji, and was just blown away by the music of the Fijians. Attached are movie clips taken on a small Canon digital camera: Fiji1.avi Fiji2.avi
- First Mini Mac's In NZ, and the trip home[An image from the original post was not archived.] It was quite an interesting trip out of California yesterday, or was it the day before yesterday? In anycase, Saturday morning, Pacific time, I didn't know if I was…
- in search of poprocks, in honour of mikey[An image from the original post was not archived.] I think I take some things for granted. I never thought that carbonated candy was one of them, but yes, I have thought that most of the world was as priviliged as…
- Amazing San Francisco[An image from the original post was not archived.] I needed a day away from technology after spending the past week in a little lab room getting MPLS and BGP to be friends for an Inter Provider VPN network. We drove…
- caltrain to sanfran; hanging out with my cuz; turtlesTook the double decker Caltrain from Mountain View to San Francisco. I was looking forward to seeing my cousin Anthony, whom just recently moved out this way. We got out of the train at the wrong stop; at 22nd and…
- going postal at the postI heard word today that my little cousin in North Carolina did not receive the Xmas present that I sent to her before New Years. I should have the registered mail receipt with tracking details somewhere in my suitecase,…
- going back to cali, to cali ... etcArrived in LAX, then caught an Embraer over to SJC. So we are here for work, however it will be good to meet up with my cousin in San Fran. It has been forever since I last saw him. The rental car has a GPS Navigation…
- nyc still rocks the blocksSo I went into the city last night to see a friend. NYC always amazes me with it's beauty. The skyline facing the East River was monumental from the rooftop of my friend's building on Wall St. If you looked between…
- Happy New Years[An image from the original post was not archived.] Happy New Years Everyone, and wishing everyone the best in 2005. It was strange to watch Dick Clark's Rocking New Years without Dick Clark. Regis held it down though.…
2004
- The gift of iSight[An image from the original post was not archived.] I received the iSight as a gift for Christmas from my parents. It's quality is amazing, as it makes other web cams look like super8 cam's. I used it with iChatAV to…
- Favourite OS X ApplicationsI use my powerbook for literally everything. I use it to configure routers, write documents, work on spreadsheets, code, surf around, and read. I have been using OS X for some time now, but moving from OpenBSD and Linux…
- So I finally get this site online after all this time ...In order to test the migration of a website to this new system ... I moved my own domain first. Well, it looks like it is working... Take a look at my old sites from circa '99 through now ... '99 '01 '02
- Bring the Noise [canceling headphones]I am really glad that I picked up a pair of Sony MDR-NC11 Noise Canceling Headphones when flying out to Beijing. This headphones are quite awesome, I used them on a noisy Air China jet from HongKong to Beijing, and they…
2003
2001
- Firewall Feature Set and CBAC with Cisco RoutersFirewall Feature Set and CBAC with Cisco Routers [www.truman.net] Truman D. Boyes Cisco FWFS is available for most models of their routers, but because it can be very taxing on the routers, it is advisable to install it…
- Subnet MasksSubnet Mask Information Number of Addresses Number of Bits Prefix Classful Notation Mask 1 0 /32 255.255.255.255 2 1 /31 255.255.255.254 4 2 /30 255.255.255.252 8 3 /29 255.255.255.248 16 4 /28 255.255.255.240 32 5 /27…
- The Big Meaning and Meaningless Booksby Truman Boyes copyright 2000 Truman Boyes I picked up the damp leather bound book from the puddle and no matter whether I was puzzled, perplexed and confused. But Mildly. I t was not disturbing, it was rather pleasant…