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An interesting approach to storage.  but if you have such a cool idea backed by good tech...why call yourself "Nutanix?"  i chortle whenever i say the name out loud.  maybe that's just me.

here's an interesting list of all the organizations in the world that own /8 ipv4 netblocks:

http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space/ipv4-address-space.xml

interesting to see the different companies on this list...the ones that were there "in the beginning" kinda thing.

Windows is the ultimate afterthought Operating System.

Anything useful in Windows, was added as an afterthought.

I tried writing a batch script and needed a "sleep" command.  It wasn't until Windows 7 that "timeout.exe" was added as a native command to accomplish what I needed to do.  Before this, intelligent folks were actually shoving things like this in the middle of their .bat scripts if they wanted to pause for 5 minutes:

ping -n 301 127.0.0.1 >nul 2>&1

Apparently there is a "sleep.exe" or something, but it's a separate download or some baloney.

in the US, and probably other complicit nations, the NSA is unlawfully intercepting internet traffic and indexing it.   yep, all of it.

IXmaps is a site that attempts to graphically represent where your data goes on the internet (in North America), and at what junctions it is being stored and catalogued.

But wait, they couldn't possibly have the means to do that...that's gotta be exabytes of data to sift through...right?!  hey, no problem.  the private sector is hard at work at providing the means.

http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2012/4/26/the_nsa_is_watching_you

Van Jacobson...made the internet possible back in the 70s and 80s with his tcp flow-control algorithms and header compression techniques. I first learned about him when working with dial-up modems, PPP and building RADIUS servers at some ISPs in the late 90s.

Example 10-3. RADIUS configuration for direct connect accounts Anna Password = UNIX-PW Service-Type = Framed, Framed-Protocol = PPP, Framed-IP-Address = 255.255.255.254, Framed-IP-Netmask = 255.255.255.0, Framed-Routing = None, Framed-MTU = 1500, Framed-Compression = Van-Jacobson-TCP-Header

Now he’s onto some next level stuff at PARC...and i love it.  clear 45min in your day to watch the first video of his talk.  This will be the future of the internet and networking architecture.  if this is embraced with the same openness of the original networking specifications, it will go far and profoundly change the internet experience forever.  i only hope corporate interests and greed don't get in the way.

http://www.parc.com/services/focus-area/content-centric-networking/

Other links:

http://www.ccnx.org

http://named-data.net

this is my IE9 user-agent string:

"Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/5.0)" 

this is an IE7 user-agent string:

"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729)"

while watching this awesome youtube vid (because Def Leppard is totally awesome, shaddup), I came across this ridiculous subdomain in my squid logs - and yes I regularly "tail -f" my access.log, ok?

o-o.preferred.iad09g05.v17.lscache2.c.youtube.com

Every subdomain in that hostname must mean something very specific.  o-o?  v17?  I wonder if it's dynamically generated.  probably, eh?  i wouldn't be surprised if there's some GSLB at play here.

So what is that?  A sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-subdomain?  I would love to see google's zonefiles and overall DNS design and architecture, because this intrigues me.  Unfortunately, google won't allow me to initiate a zone transfer.  funny, that.

perl is a masochists scripting language. sure, it can do wonderful things in the realm of text-parsing, but navigating the syntax of perl is akin to white water rafting. with no raft. in lava. random perl error of the day:

discovered today that using “lynx —dump” over “curl -o” or “wget -O” to save text from a website is preferable if you’re planning to do some parsing on the output. GNU sed doesn’t produce expected results with the curl or wget output. something to do with lynx writing linefeeds versus curl/wget writing carriage returns:

So, facebook.com thinks my Kobo Touch is an Android device, and renders accordingly. It even says “Using Android? get the FB app for Android!” (paraphrasing). It does this because the browser on the Kobo sends this as it’s user-agent string:

Mozilla/5.0+(Linux;+U;+Android+2.0;+en-us;)+AppleWebKit/533.1+(KHTML,+like+Gecko)+Version/4.0+Mobile+Safari/533.1