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November 4th, 2017
Here someone wrote about the TriNet which is comprised of Facebook, Google and
Amazon (all american companies btw). See here.
BTW I have half a dozen websites on the Internet, but none of them do much in
terms of user interaction. Of those three companies I use Amazon, to get my
books, but I use Google less and less (use duckduckgo for searching now) and
don't use facebook at all (last use was 2011?). I think the Web is not
going to be surplanted by the TriNet like the author here says. But who knows?
If anyone has ideas how we bloggers can appeal more to people let me know.
Currently I get most traffic from the USA, this is probably directly linked
to the language I chose on this blog. Next is France, Germany, China and
Ukraine. I have room to grow really as I get 2 TB volume on my VPS that
hosts the web, but I'm not there yet. Currently the websites take up 1 GB of
traffic. So I have lots of resources that I pay for but that aren't utilized.
I wish I could say "people wake up", but wake up to what? Many people are
clueless to know that they can write a blog, or maintain it. Perhaps something
like Facebook is needed for them. Too bad Facebook is not a not-for-profit
though, and we already know my stance on the advertising. So yeah the
web is dying.
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Internet bandwidths
November 3rd, 2017
In 1994 I first had Internet. Off a 28.8 kbit/s analog modem. In 1998 then
I upgraded the analog modem to a 64 Kbit/s ISDN-NA channel. In 1999 I got
1 Mbit/s ADSL and gone were the analog modems. Today I have 100/40 Mbit/s VDSL
, so between 1994 and 2018 that is an increase of a factor of 3555.56 over a
timespan of 24 years. So in 2042 if this trend keeps up we can enjoy bandwidths of 350 Gbit/s. I think this is only doable with fibre and currently with 1
laser only 100 Gbit/s is achievable, so there is room for improvement in the
FTTH technology. I'm locked in to a contract on VDSL until 2019, but in 2020
I'm planning on upgrading my home network to 10 Gbit/s speeds. Once that is
done, my router will be switching faster than the 300 Mbit it currently does
and I'm ready for gigabit to the home. Whether that is over copper or fibre
I don't really care, but by 2024 I sure hope to have over 1 Gbit/s speeds
available at which FTTH or FTTB (I'm in a building) should be here. That's
6 years turn-around time for the Telekom or other providers to deliver.
Time will tell. BTW I'm for the government to privatise the Deutsche Telekom
and use the money to re-invest in fibre to the home.
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20 Years since I started at Globalserve.NET
November 2nd, 2017
It was in November 1997 when I started working at this ISP. At first I started
part-time but that changed to full time as I dropped a math course I was taking
at the University of Toronto. Dan M. (RIP) had introduced me to Robin D. who
was CEO of Globalserve. It launched me on a career that was like a roller
coaster. I wish Globalserve hadn't sold but there was no money to be made with
analog modems anymore so they had no choice. I worked really hard at that
place, and for low wages for the type of job. At Globalserve there was a guy
named Dustin (or Justin?) who ran OpenBSD on his laptop, which I thought was
really cool. With help from Figz on IRC I installed OpenBSD on my workstation
there too. First time I ran OpenBSD (it was 1998), the computer then was
called geeklab.globalserve.net, which was odd but I wanted to be a geek back
then or something, hehe. Am I a geek? I don't know you tell me. Some people
I met at or through Globalserve/Primus are still in my friend-circle, and I
miss some other people that I lost contact with. 20 years gone.. damn.. almost
half my life, through thick and thin, I'm still here.
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What it tells me
October 30th, 2017
I've been job-hunting for a while now. Conclusion: I'm not wanted. No matter
what I may know, if they don't like me. And they don't. They won't hire me.
It's so frustrating I want to climb a ceiling or something. Like a cat.
I'm really considering starting my own business as I don't see a chance to get
hired here by someone else.
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Network re-arranging
October 28th, 2017
Due to the KRACK attacks I have
decided to lay a cable from the hallway into the office. This will make the
access point irrelevant, but i'm keeping it around just in case. But! I'm
at a point where i need more ports in the office and my firewall uranus there
only has six ports, and all utilized. So I'm going to swap uranus with venus
eventually as venus has exactly six ports utilized with no more coming in the
foreseeable future. It also has six spare ports for a total of twelve ports
(it's a soekris that is maxed with expandability). I'll likely immediately
use up 8 ports on venus in the office, as I'm moving the access point into
the office as well (going to keep it off until it's needed, likely never since
I am going to explore using IPSEC on a roadwarrior config with freifunk).
Here is an updated network map how it should look like:
[Apple TV]----------+ [LTE FRITZBOX] +----[mercury]
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[Samsung TV]--------+ | +----[AREA52U-UPLINK]
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[Spica]-------------+-----[uranus]----------[zeta]---------+----[AREA52U-BATMAN]
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[saturn]------------+ | +----[AREA52U-BRIDGE]
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[AREA52W2-BATMAN]---+ | +----[TELEKOM pppoe]
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[VOIP phone #1]-----+------+------+---------[venus]-------+------+----[beta]
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[phone #2] | | | | |
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((=[5Ghz AP] | [earth] | [expansion]
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[AREA52O BATMAN] [delta]
So I'm likely going to get this done in the next three weeks.
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Purchased last batch of books for year
October 28th, 2017
Last year I purchased 15 books in total. I matched that this year. Here is
the last batch of books that I bought for 2017.
- Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, Global Edition - Russell, Stuart,Norvig, Peter
- Astrometry for Astrophysics: Methods, Models, and Applications - van Altena, William F.
- Fundamentals of Astrometry - Kovalevsky, Jean
I decided to buy two books on astrometry because yesterday I was sifting through
ESA's Gaia mission page and downloaded data regarding the parallax of of stars
that this mission constructed. It's unrelated to the books but if you were
curious check
here. I plan to make a small program to help me determine the closest
stars in any region in the sky. Anyhow I noticed the data was cross referenced
to the Hipparcos mission which ran earlier and did parallax astrometry as well.
I found the 13th most distant star from earth in the constellation virgo was
called Ross 128 aka HIP 57548. In the
distances paper that I got the data from it is the closest star. Why I don't
know but it is, I sorted the data and checked. Perhaps because the other 12
closer stars are too close? Or are well known? Anyhow to get to the bottom
of some of my questions I bought these books. I'll have to have a lot of
reading to do. Perhaps I can couple astrometry with artificial intelligence
one day. LOL.
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Delphinusdnsd: What's ahead in the next two months
October 27th, 2017
The year is coming to an end in 2 months, and I'm going to tell what there
is still to do until the 1.2.0 release. I'm working on patches to make
delphinusdnsd work more around the imsg functions found in OpenBSD. I'm
hoping for one more week of vacation between christmas and new years and then
I'm going to likely roll the 1.2.0 release. Right now we're a go for a
January 1, 2018 release. Time will tell if that is manageable. Beyond the
two months I don't want to speculate too much. But I'm interested in putting
CAA support in for the 1.3.0 release. Also I need to do key-rollover in
DNSSEC as my own zones need new keys (RSA 1024 bit strength currently).
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Purchased Fundraiser Tees
October 24th, 2017
I have purchased two
fundraiser t-shirts
designed by a friend of mine's daughter that will ultimately rebuild a Nunavut
school in Canada. Read the hyperlink to gain more information. Thanks goes
to Jackie who helped finding my mails in the stores Junk mail folder. The
t-shirts I have asked the store to send to my niece and nephew, also in Canada.
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Finished upgrades to 6.2
October 17th, 2017
I had finished my upgrades to OpenBSD 6.2 on saturday, but i wanted to do
a network wide backup as well. That was done last night. AFAICR my network
doesn't have any more 6.1 or 6.0 machines.
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Krack Attack, WPA2 broken?
October 16th, 2017
The rumour of the day is that WPA2 is broken.
here is a writeup
by arsetechnica. At home I'm mostly OK I think as I wrap my layer 3 in IPSEC
as well, so if WPA2 is broken there is another layer to crack. Hopefully there
will be patches though.
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