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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…
- Finally Ditched GoDaddySwitched everything over to Namecheap.Com. It’s cheaper, their policies are better; it’s worth it.
- 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…
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…
- 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:…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Room2Read Girls Scholarship ChallengeOriginally published on truman.net. See the archived copy .
- 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…
- 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,…
- 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
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…