Did you know there was a fork of Bacula named Bareos? Not I. Not sure whether to pronounce it "bar-ee-os" or "bear-o-s". Got Kern Sibbald, Bacula's creator, rather upset. He promises to bring over "any worthwhile features"...which is good, because there are a lot.
Post by Matthew Green titled "How does the NSA break SSL?". Should be reading that now but I'm writing this instead.
I have not read The Phoenix Project, which makes me a bad person for reacting so viscerally to things like "A personal reinterpretation of the three ways" and the self-congratulatory air of the headshot gallery. I'm trying to figure out why I react this way, and whether it's justified or just irrational dislike of people I perceive as outsiders. Seriously, though, the Information Technology Process Institute?
Got Netflix at home? Got IPv6? That might be why they think you're in Switzerland and change your shows accordingly. In my case, they thought I was in the US and offered to show "30 Rock" and "Europa Report"...until I tried to actually stream them and they figured out the truth. Damn.
Test-Driven Infrastructure with Chef. Have not used Chef before, but I like the approach the author uses in the first half of the book: here's what you need to accomplish, so go do it. The second half abandons this...sort of unfortunate, but I'm not sure explaining test infrastructure libraries (ServerSpec, etc) would work well in this approach. Another minor nitpick: there's a lot of boilerplate output from Chef et al that could easily be cut. Overall, though, I really, really like this book.
Mencius Moldbug, one of the most...I mean...I don't even. Jaw-droppingly weird. Start with "Noam Chomsky killed Aaron Swartz".
I've set up ipv6 again on my home server; a reboot + doing everything by hand + not writring it down means a) I'm a baaaad sysadmin and b) had to wait 'til now to find the time to get it going again.
I'm really curious to know what IPv6 connectivity is available at UBC. Must ask mailing list...
After coming back from LISA I've been wanting to try IPv6 at home; I've dabbled with it on and off for the last few years, but haven't made a serious go of it.
Originally I had a tunnel with SixXS.net, but:
I was having problems with uptime that, in the end, turned out to be my own silly firewall problems
The points system they use just seems needlessly complicated
Hurricane Electric was just 'way easier to set up, including getting a /64 right away
There are a number of complaints about SixXS.net arbitrarily (so it's claimed) closing accounts.
But enough gossip! Now you can visit http://ipv6.saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com. Soon as I get a chance I'll set it up so it doesn't require the separate hostname.
I spent the better part of the day yesterday setting up IPv6 at home
now that I've got my subnet from SixXS. I'm running rtadvd on
my OpenBSD firewall, and was testing it with rtsold on a laptop
running OpenbSD. I'm not sure what I was doing wrong, but for the
longest time all the laptop would pick up was the gateway; it would
not set up a global address, but stick with the link-local address
only. Every time I tried to ping the dancing turtle it would try
sending it with the fe80 address, which of course did not work.
In the end, after a few reboots of both machines, it did work. My notes were a little thin (hey, this is my vacation here :-), but I can't think of what changed…the laptop just started setting itself a global address, routing worked, and that was that. Weird.
Next up will be to get the website working on IPv6. Maybe a dancing daemon or something…
And hey, I won tickets to see William Gibson speak! "Hey, Mr. Gibson...you know that book you wrote called Virtual Light? ...It was really cool." Ah, fanboys. But my wife wants to go too, 'cos she loved Pattern Recognition. Should be a fun night.
And I just realized that although I've been generating an RSS2 feed, I've never linked to the RSS2 feed until now. Enjoy.
I've been fiddling with IPv6 for years, but have never actually done anything serious with it. When I started work at Dowco, and my web server was a 200MHz Pentium I inherited from friends of mine, my plan was to get a tunnel from Hurricane Electric, then run a tunnel broker service of my own for customers. (There was a burning thirst for IPv6 subnets, let me tell you) It foundered when it got to the point of coming up with a website that'd let you register; cookies and sessions and I don't know what all just bored me to tears.
At my next/last job, IPv6 was used in-house. The sysadmin before me had set up 6to4 because he wanted to connect to his machine at work without NAT. I kept it going long past the time he left, and as far as I know it's still there. But beyond presenting many more ways for DNS problems to screw things up, not much was ever done with it.
Last year I signed up for another account from HE, got a prefix, then lost track of it when it came time to add IPv6 rules for the firewall. Of course, there was other stuff going on too.
This year HE's registration form is borked, saying that it can't insert my MD5'd password into MySQL, so I've applied for an account with SixXS. (Sadly, it seems that despite appearances, my ISP isn't interested.) I've got a week's vacation coming up, so along with moving the server from Atlanta to home I think I'll try to get IPv6 working as well.
Next beer in Jerusalem! (Which, shet my mouth, is not even close to original.)