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Pillow Talk

B: I hate your guts
D: Why? Do I remind you of yourself?
B: Nah… you murdering sonofabitch. I only scare them, break their legs, and occasionally cause a cardiac arrest –frighten them to death– while you continue to cross the line.
D: Which line, your line?
I never cross my line. Harry’s code helps me to …
B: Henry’s fucking code. You working on my nerves, damned. It never takes more than 20 seconds before you bring up Henry’s code. Its a damned lame excuse for your nocturnal cutting-a-psychopath tours.
D: And how are those different from your nocturnal scaring-a-psychopath tour?
… [silence]…
D: and his name is Harry, not Henry, you fuckface
B: You sound like your sister now
.. [silence]…
D: According to the code I should kill you
B: And I should make you relive your worst nightmare a dozen times… That kind of terror worked with others.
D: Not with me, not with me, thanks to Harry.
B: Fuck Harry.
D: Fuck you, Bruce
B: Not today Dexter, sleep well.
D: sleep well, sweet dreams

Export Article

WIRED seems to think I am an export article:
 
 Olaf Kolkman, a Dutch networking export, says there’s no time to waste. The only way for DNSSEC to work is for the top-level zone file — which lists the specifics for top-level domains like .gov — to be signed by a trusted authority.

Design your own life

The other day I received a brochure from IKEA, the last page featured an advertisement by “DELA” a dutch funeral insurance company. Even though the disclaimer at the bottom of the add that the advertisement was not an initiative by IKEA it made me think about the essential missing products in the IKEA “design your own life” philosophy.
Design your own life
 
Aska

Swedish Urn
colors

  • Sunday Grey
  • Heaven White
  • Bat Black
  • Blood Red
€ 149.00
Kista
Swedish Pine Coffin
€ 349.00
Off course this is all parody and the marvelous IKEA company is not associated with any of the above.

BubbleBable


Seems like I was mentioned… I hope in a favorable context.

Q12　最近メインで使っている言語は？　なぜその言語に引かれたのですか？

Perl。それまではawkやCを使っていて、今でもたくさん使っているけれど、PerlはCでやりたいことをプロトタイピングするのに実は便利。システムコールとかよく似た名前で扱えるしね。後、よいライブラリがそろっている。DNS関連では、オラフ・コルクマン（Olaf Kolkman）のNet::DNSなんか結構素敵。

　Cは知っておくと困らない。おかげで今もなんとかメシが食えてます。別に簡単な統計計算をCでやったっていい。32ビット同士のかけ算で、結果が64ビットであってほしい、というのをアセンブリ言語以外で書くのって結構面倒だからね。

　オブジェクト指向的なものにはイマイチ慣れなくて、使わずにいるんだけど、データや実行しているコードの流れさえつかめば、どういう言語でも対応はできると思う。Concurrency（同時に複数のコードが走っていること）を考えると、順番が書かれている通りに実行されるわけじゃないから、難しいけど。

　言語オタクにはなれなかったというか、劣等感があります。Prologとか、全然分かっていない。LISPのS式は、素晴らしいと思うし、教養の1つとして知っておくべきだと思うけど。JavaとCommon Lispが近縁なんだよな、そういえば。

　ツールというか、ゴチャマンとした処理系としては、Rは面白いと思ってます。プログラミング言語というよりは、統計処理関連アプリだけど :-）

IPv6 Depletion Song

From The RIPE 55 Secret Working Group Report

a long long time ago
i can still remember
when my laptop could connect elsewhere

and i tell you all there was a day
the network card i threw away
had a purpose – and worked for you and me….

But 18 years completely wasted
with each address we’ve aggregated
the tables overflowing
the traffic just stopped flowing….

And now we’re bearing all the scars
and all my traceroutes showing stars…
the packets would travel faster in cars…
the day….the routers died

Chorus (ALL!!!!!)

So bye bye, folks at RIPE 55
Be persuaded to upgrade it or your network will die
IPv6 just makes me let out a sigh
But I spose we’d better give it a try
I suppose we’d better give it a try

Now did you write an RFC
That dictated how we all should be
Did we listen like we should that day

Now were you back at RIPE fifty-four
Where we heard the same things months before
And the people knew they’d have to change their ways….

And we – knew that all the ISPs
Could be – future proof for centuries

But that was then not now
Spent too much time playing WoW

ooh there was time we sat on IRC
Making jokes on how this day would be
Now there’s no more use for TCP
The day the routers died…

Chorus (chime in now)

So bye bye, folks at RIPE 55
Be persuaded to upgrade it or your network will die
IPv6 just makes me let out a sigh
But I spose we’d better give it a try
I suppose we’d better give it a try

I remember those old days I mourn
Sitting in my room, downloading porn
Yeah that’s how it used to be….

When the packets flowed from A to B
via routers that could talk IP
There was data..that could be exchanged between you and me….

Oh but – I could see you all ignore
The fact – we’d fill up IPv4

But we all lost the nerve
And we got what we deserved!

And while…we threw our network kit away
And wished we’d heard the things they say
Put all our lives in disarray

The day…the routers died…

Chorus (those silent will be shot)

So bye bye, folks at RIPE 55
Be persuaded to upgrade it or your network will die
IPv6 just makes me let out a sigh
But I spose we’d better give it a try
I suppose we’d better give it a try

Saw a man with whom I used to peer
Asked him to rescue my career
He just sighed and turned away..

I went down to the net cafe
that I used to visit everyday
But the man there said I might as well just leave…

And now we’ve all lost our purpose..
my cisco shares completely worthless…

No future meetings for me
At the Hotel Krasnapolsky

and the men that make us push and push
Like Geoff Huston and Randy Bush
Should’ve listened to what they told us….
The day…the routers….died

Chorus (time to lose your voice)

So bye bye, folks at RIPE 55
Be persuaded to upgrade it or your network will die
IPv6 just makes me let out a sigh
But I spose we’d better give it a try
I suppose we’d better give it a try

 

Words and performance by Gary Feldman