Just listened to Dire Straits “Money for nothing”. Every time I stay in a hotel and there is a TV set in the room showing with MTV I ask myself WTF happened to MTV. Is there realy music between all those ring tone commercials. I want the MTV from my youth back.
Damn I’m old.
I recently reviewed a Cisco router configuration. Access via ssh was disabled and only telnet was allowed from some host. Ok, IOS only supports key authentication starting with IOS 15 but I thing that using an encrypted channel to configure and troubleshoot a router is better than clear text. And ssh is available in the standard image for quite some time.
While installing some software I got the following error message:
Installation failed. Please check /var/log/foobar.log.
firewall[admin]#more /var/log/foobar.log
[...]
Installation failed. Please check /var/log/foobar.log
[...]
someone might have put the console cable from the test system to a productive one. Reloading the wrong box might be a bad idea.
Ok, some might argue that putting live and test equipment into one rack and using the same passwords for both is also not a very good idea. I totally agree.
And before you ask: I checked and didn’t reboot the wrong system. But it was close.
BGPmon has some statistics about IPv6 deployment per country. Quite interesting and still a lot of work to do.
Some time ago I wrote about using WLAN on board an ICE.
While cleaning up my bookmarks I found this address explaining the technology behind it. Sorry it’s in German.
Very nice presentation by Joe Klein on IPv6 security.
What is it? Why can’t people answer emails? Recently booked a hotel room via email because I had to use a special booking code.
They didn’t reply, they just booked the room for me. I had to call to find out. 
There is one thing you have to know about me. I like being ignored. You don’t have to answer my mails. Just ignore them when I’m offering support and help. Do not answer my e-mails. Just route them to /dev/null. I don’t care. But do never ask help from me again. Unless you pay for it.
I just have to remember this. As I know me I will do the same mistake all over again.
Last week I remembered why I don’t work with windows. I needed to install some vendors firewall management software on a windows machine which lead to some very strange error message which were caused by some DLLs from an older version of the software.
