Sean’s Obsessions

A coworker sent me a link to RFC 1375, Suggestion for New Classes of IP Addresses, where a few new series of address space are broken out to handle /30’s and such. Compare this to CIDR, where we finally treat IP addresses as a 32 bit integer and move completely classless. What would […]

$699 for a uniprocessor licence? No way.
Sean

Even though I live in the socialist haven of Canada, I’m a strong believer in the free market.
If it is true that SCO has a right to charge licencing fees on Linux, then the SCOX market capitalization should include both the value of SCO and the “value” of Linux.
Today, the market cap is almost $160M. […]

Still a work in progress, but I’ve joined the BlogRoll. Took a bit of work to get the BlogRoll plugin going, though. As it turns out the line

$$html .= “<li><a href=’”.$site->{htmlUrl}.”‘>”.$site->{title}.”</a></li>n”;

should really have been

$$html .= “<li><a href=’”.$site->{url}.”‘>”.$site->{title}.”</a></li>n”;

(Note that the url tag changed). Special thanks to the Data::Dumper module for helping me find […]

“Solution” is a strong word, but what can we do to reduce spam? Craig from Securely Speaking asked if using a public list of open relays as input to a firewall ACL was a good idea? I think not, but what is?
One of the problems with reducing spam is determining the identity of […]