IPv6 nostalgia

It is World IPv6 Day today and I’m getting nostalgic. This is how the 6BONE looked in its very last day:

The code that was constructing this diagram was running from July 16, 1998 until June 10, 2006. I had just finished reading “Practical Reusable Unix Software” (which is now available for download) and was trying to do something cool using graphviz. Yep, almost the same time as the Internet Mapping Project began.

I believe the World IPv6 Day is as close a date as we can get to a new Internet Flag Day. This time the switch will not happen in a day but gradually and very (very) slowly. Hopefully in 30 years from today, no IPv4 islands will exist.

Five sentences

I was reminded of six word stories when reading this:

five.sentenc.es is a personal policy that all email responses regardless of recipient or subject will be five sentences or less. It’s that simple.

I think I’m around to five or six. But it is always nice to see something that you instinctively practice written down. I found out about it thanks to this post by Tom Limoncelli.

gnuplot and YYYYMMDD

Note to self:

set xdata time
set timefmt "%Y%m%d"
plot "filename" using 1:2 with lines

“The Sky is the bottom”

It is not the fact that I had not been in a “doghouse”^† for 7+ years scary. It is the fact that I knew every hit.

[†] – A certain kind of Greek music scene

[sourcecode lang="text"]

Reread Posting Source Code yesterday and found out about text being an acceptable source code language.

I revised all my sendmail posts.

Happy Birthday Ethernet!!!

According to Bob Metcalfe, Ethernet was invented May 22, 1973.

38 years and counting…

OWASP Training Day στην Αθήνα: 2011-05-25

Αναμετάδοση από το blog του Ελληνικού OWASP:

“Το OWASP Greek Chapter διοργανώνει ένα OWASP Training Day την Τετάρτη, 25 Μαΐου στο Αμφιθέατρο της Γενικής Γραμματείας Πληροφοριακών Συστημάτων, Χανδρή 1 & Θεσσαλονίκης, Μοσχάτο. Πρόκειται για μία εκπαίδευση από αυτές που σπάνια έχουμε την ευκαιρία να παρακολουθήσουμε στην Ελλάδα και ταυτόχρονα μια ευκαιρία ανταλλαγής απόψεων με μερικούς από τους κορυφαίους ειδικούς στο χώρο του Application Security παγκοσμίως.”

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Αξίζει και τον χρόνο και τον κόπο.

God Emperor of Dune [haiku]

Finished God Emperor of Dune
The BeBook is lighter than the book
Time passes in the bus

Management and the Public Sector

Overheard this weekend:

The Number One rule of management in the Greek Public Sector is: “If you want something done, assign it to someone who already has too many assignments and is overloaded”.

This closely follows my decade long observation that management works with those who work, leaving the rest at peace.

“We” vs “They”

I remember reading a quote somewhere in the tubes that goes like this:

“Those who divide people between good and bad, are always with the good guys.”

I can’t remember who originally said it though