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Great NANOG presentations

I was reminded by @dritans tweet that there a lot of great NANOG presentations which tend to get buried amongst the archives. The particular one he linked to is A Practical Guide to (Correctly) Troubleshooting with Traceroute [222KB PDF] by Richard A Steenbergen. This is a terrific primer for those who have never dug deep […]

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Bernadette McMenamin applying the spin, again…

Australian IT is carrying a blog post by Bernadette McMenamin which is just full of mis-representation and spin. One of the most horrendous developments that we have experienced in the last 15 years is the dramatic explosion in the global trade of child sexual abuse images on the internet. No one really knows the true […]

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Links of the Day: August 06, 2008

Internet Memes A reminder of everything that is wrong with the Internet. End of the road for the Mean Machine TP52 programme Frankly, it seems a bit of a cop out. They’re running 4th in a fleet of 20 boats with two regattas to go. Make it a contest all the way to the fat […]

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Links of the Day: July 02, 2008

The OSPF Default Mysteries “In this article, you’ll see how the Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) protocol uses default routes and how various OSPF-generated default routes interact in typical network scenarios.” Key differences between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 “Web 2.0 is a buzzword introduced in 2003-04 which is commonly used to encompass various novel […]

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Links of the Day: June 28, 2008

Renesys Blog: Cogent Becomes Transit-Free “Cogent (AS174) has established a direct connection to the America Online Transit Data Network (ATDN) (AS1668). This long-awaited connection completes Cogent’s effort to directly connect with every transit-free network in the world.” WWoIT – Wayne’s World of IT: Find VM snapshots in ESX/VC “Find snapshots of VMs in ESX and […]

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Google doesn’t seem to care about your privacy…

SMH is reporting about Google’s imminent launch of “Street View” in Australia. Richard Chirgwin points out the spineless journalism that let quotes like the following through to the keeper: Still reeling from the backlash by privacy activists after Street View began in the US last year, Ms Mayer said Google was developing technology to blur […]

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Links of the Day: Mar 09, 2008

More reading on the Youtube hijacking, this analysis from the RIPE project. Photo gallery of a high density Internet Exchange in LA. Commentary on the credit crunch. I’ve always been surprised that it’s the executives who get the million dollar bonuses when times are good and the million dollar kiss off when times are bad. […]

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Links of the Day: Feb 29, 2008

It was posted a few days ago, but this article on incron was interesting. Rather than run a script every so often to check for new files to be processed, this hooks into the kernel and triggers a script when a file handle event occurs. Even my Mum mentioned the “Me-Tube” [sic] incident. Renesys blog […]

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Internet “news” and those cable cuts.

I’ve followed with interest the cable cuts in the Med and Middle East that have seen rumour layered upon rumour and every armchair commentator lathered in to a frenzy with conspiracy theories. There has been excellent coverage at the Renesys blog (Parts 1, 2, 3, quash Iran rumours, 4, summary) and Data Centre Knowledge has […]

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