Notices by Dan McDonald (danmcd@hostux.social), page 2

Today is a good day for me to have my NAT/router in an #illumos zone, where a reboot takes (checks stopwatch) mere single-digit seconds.

TFW you were born just barely pre-epoch... I'll be 68-and-change when the Y2038 event happens.
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@mwl

He was the first "elder statesman" I had actual interactions & discussions with. I found some corner-case bugs while bringing up the NRL IPv6 & IPsec code while he was at BSDI.

I know I must not be the only one who thinks we should already have cheap 10G (not just 2.5G and even 5G) BaseT infrastructure.

I was just talking with @jeffpc about how in a perfect world someone would make a cheap equivalent of Intel's X55x series of NICs. 1/2.5/5/10GBaseT, existing drivers, and a path since the low-end switch vendors don't seem to have aggressively priced >GigE switching HW.

I might be missing latest state-of-the-market, but last time I checked was last year this month.

@Edent

Wow a man-in-the-middle attack with a real life person actually in the middle! 😮

@josh @thomasfuchs

Or as Scott McNealy used to call it: CaptiveX.

Anyone who's ever used DTrace/eBPF/etc. totally understands this sentiment:

https://federate.social/@mattblaze/112361827154963078

Any recommendations for an "Intel Processor N100" (yes that model) machine that isn't hard-tied to Windows like the one I had to return to Newegg recently?

"Can install Linux/FreeBSD/illumos on its bare metal" is the bar I'm setting.

WITH A CROWBAR!!!

Given today's outage, it seems appropriate to recycle this stolen joke:

GROUCHO: some of my socials are offline.

CHICO: Ah, that's Meta.

GROUCHO: What's a Meta?

CHICO: I DUNNO, WHAT'S A META YOU?

Did you know that the D in BSoD sometimes stands for Dunks?

#illumos HAS NO CAPITAL LETTERS!

@Quinnypig Did he have any ACME products with him?

@KaraLG84 @sphakos

IIRC Eddie Van Halen tuned his in 4ths, not for any accessibility reason, but it was easier for him.

Tune your guitar any way that works, no?

Found this graphic I made for a rejected talk. It DOES explain the spectrum that spans #linux through #illumos to #freebsd as far what's covered by the most-upstream:

@Wolven

As the French tower dwellers said:

Another time I miss QT, this one from @lowqualityfacts .

Folks who work with crypto know how, "military grade," gets thrown around a lot by snake-oil salesman. I'll put LQF's picture here, so they can get credit-where-due. (1/2)

Why does this public wifi block IKE ports (500 and/or 4500)? Asking for a friend.... #punchin #IPsec #IKE #illumos

@SteveBellovin I still use old-Sun-internal test+productivity tool #punchin where my HDC's router zone hosts it.

You might not know this, but I left Oracle not because of the closing of OpenSolaris ('cause I naively believed they were gonna do the Darwin thing per the leaked internal email), but because some jackass personally demonstrated to #Solaris Team #IPsec that Oracle culture values business relationships more than its own fucking technology.

"Let's use SSL/VPN instead..." :swearing:

@SteveBellovin @letoams @mattblaze @marabou

AH was part of its time (1993-1994). Two good-at-the-time and one awful-misunderstanding reasons:

1.) EXPORT CONTROL! AH & ESP came about right as the clipper chip was dropping.

2.) Fit with then-SIP-now-IPv6. AH's structure fit in very nicely with IPv6 extension headers.

3.) (and this is the misunderstanding one). It was thought that AH could keep source-route headers safe. That thought was wrong. 1/2