Surreality TV

People are having fun with v6 addressing. Take a look at Cisco and Facebook in particular.

Tracing route to www.l.google.com [2001:4860:b009::6a]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 2001:470:8:cfb::1
...
9 17 ms 19 ms 19 ms qy-in-x6a.1e100.net [2001:4860:b009::6a]

Trace complete.

Tracing route to fpfd.wa1.b.yahoo.com [2001:4998:f00b:1fe::3000]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 9 ms <1 ms <1 ms 2001:470:8:cfb::1
...
6 17 ms 20 ms 18 ms r1.ycpi.vip.nyc.yahoo.net [2001:4998:f00b:1fe::3000]

Trace complete.

Tracing route to www.facebook.com [2620:0:1c08:4000:face:b00c:0:2]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 2001:470:8:cfb::1
2 12 ms 19 ms 18 ms 2001:470:7:cfb::1
3 9 ms 10 ms 14 ms gige-g4-12.core1.ash1.he.net [2001:470:0:90::1]
4 12 ms 88 ms 8 ms 2001:470:0:1bf::2
5 15 ms 9 ms 9 ms ae2.bb01.iad1.tfbnw.net [2620:0:1cff:dead:beef::79]
...
18 84 ms 87 ms 87 ms www-ipv6-12-01-snc2.facebook.com [2620:0:1c08:4000:face:b00c:0:2]

Trace complete.

Tracing route to cisco.v6day.akadns.net [2001:420:80:1:c:15c0:d06:f00d]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 2001:470:8:cfb::1
...
8 87 ms 87 ms 88 ms www.cisco.com [2001:420:80:1:c:15c0:d06:f00d]

Trace complete.

Fuck you Sun. Fuck you too, NetApp. You can both die in a fucking fire.

Go to Hell, don't come back.

Fuck you Sun. Fuck you too, NetApp. You can both die in a fucking fire.

Go to Hell, don't come back.

...To stop fucking with Java. I have this NetApp that is administered via Java applets, most of which don't even pretend to work with versions of Java six months prior to whatever release of ONTAP you're using on your NetApp. I've spent the last while building a VM that I will not patch, and can only hope the NetApp will feed me whatever Java version it works with when I connect to it. If it sends me to Sun, I'm going to jump off the fucking balcony. Or, better yet, I'll throw the fucking NetApp off the balcony.

I'm not sure who I hate more, Sun for breaking shit with every subsequent Java release, or vendors who rely on this fucking shit and make my job impossible without it (there's a lot I can do from the command line on this thing, but some things can ONLY be done via the Java GUI that of course doesn't even pretend to try and work).

Man, I thought Vista's network stack was aggressive, and then I met Windows 7. It does all kinds of nifty on the fly TCP optimization (sliding TCP window sizing, variable on the fly MTU, MRU, and MSS values, and rapid scaling up of data throughput as best as I can tell), which are all anticipating ten, forty, and hundred gigabit LANs as normal and expected (and moving data across links like that at wire speed is HARD). Vista's network stack is far better than XP's, and it looks like Windows 7's network stack is Vista's on overdrive. This is all well and good, except when it totally takes over our connection to the outside world and nothing else can get manage to grab any bandwidth. Current incarnations of *BSD and Linux are also doing these same things, for the same reasons. If we manage to get past our current problems and really upgrade our network infrastructure, the future is going to be awesome. The future here being half a decade away.

Man, I thought Vista's network stack was aggressive, and then I met Windows 7. It does all kinds of nifty on the fly TCP optimization (sliding TCP window sizing, variable on the fly MTU, MRU, and MSS values, and rapid scaling up of data throughput as best as I can tell), which are all anticipating ten, forty, and hundred gigabit LANs as normal and expected (and moving data across links like that at wire speed is HARD). Vista's network stack is far better than XP's, and it looks like Windows 7's network stack is Vista's on overdrive. This is all well and good, except when it totally takes over our connection to the outside world and nothing else can get manage to grab any bandwidth. Current incarnations of *BSD and Linux are also doing these same things, for the same reasons. If we manage to get past our current problems and really upgrade our network infrastructure, the future is going to be awesome. The future here being half a decade away.

Other than the WiFi bridge losing connectivity at random (sometimes it's solid for hours; sometimes it goes after twenty minutes, but it's a considerable lateral distance from the AP and on another floor) and then NOT REESTABLISHING A CONNECTION (which is not the 360's fault), I'm really liking the 360's networking bits. Vista Ultimate happily installed an MCE connector. Even easier than that, I've turned on Vista's Media Sharing and I don't even need an MCE session. I just go to My Music in the console, connect to my machine, and play my entire MP3 collection from the 360's console player, which puts up Cthugha like patterns to the music on the screen while it plays, which is pretty nifty. I'm assuming that any video I add to WMP's library will also just show up like magic, which is something I intend to play with later.

It let me connect to Windows Live Messenger in the console and I sent requests to all you peeps I have as Messenger friends who also have XBL Gamer Tags.

I watched part of Young Frankenstein last night via NetFlix streaming on the HD, which is Fucking Awesome.

Oh, and it plays games too.

Edit: Confirmed...it has access to all video and pictures in the WMP Library as well.

So, the kiddo has been wanting an Xbox360 for a while. He's got quite a chunk of change in birthday money that he's never spent, so we used that to cover part of the cost. I picked up an Elite version for him yesterday. Yeah, it's a bit more expensive than the standard box (and the Arcade wasn't even an option), but it comes with Lego Indiana Jones and Kung Fu Panda along with all the other extras the Elite throws in the box over the standard configuration, so it was worth the extra dollars. The color also matches all our AV gear, which is a nice side benny.

So, I guess maybe I'll have to pick up whatever it is y'all play regularly and join in?

Once I get it networked. Which I haven't figured out how I'm going to do. I'm not about to spend the $100 Microsoft want for what's a $15 USB WiFi adapter under the injection molded plastic. I guess I'll have to run a cable to the second machine upstairs and bring the wireles bridge it's plugged into to the AV gear. That would get the PS2 on the network also. What I need is a four foot relay rack in the basement with a nice rj48 patch panel wired to dual or quad jacks in every room, and a gbit switch that I can cross connect any of them with (and hey, it makes phone lines easy too, since POTS runs over cat6 just as well as it does over cat3, and rj11/12 plugs into rj48 just fine). Of course, trying to retrofit that kind of wiring into the house would be expensive. But I'm pretty sure it'd also be worth it.

This here post be locked me hardys, as my kiddo can't see it that way.

So, the kiddo has been wanting an Xbox360 for a while. He's got quite a chunk of change in birthday money that he's never spent, so we used that to cover part of the cost. I picked up an Elite version for him yesterday. Yeah, it's a bit more expensive than the standard box (and the Arcade wasn't even an option), but it comes with Lego Indiana Jones and Kung Fu Panda along with all the other extras the Elite throws in the box over the standard configuration, so it was worth the extra dollars. The color also matches all our AV gear, which is a nice side benny.

So, I guess maybe I'll have to pick up whatever it is y'all play regularly and join in?

Once I get it networked. Which I haven't figured out how I'm going to do. I'm not about to spend the $100 Microsoft want for what's a $15 USB WiFi adapter under the injection molded plastic. I guess I'll have to run a cable to the second machine upstairs and bring the wireles bridge it's plugged into to the AV gear. That would get the PS2 on the network also. What I need is a four foot relay rack in the basement with a nice rj48 patch panel wired to dual or quad jacks in every room, and a gbit switch that I can cross connect any of them with (and hey, it makes phone lines easy too, since POTS runs over cat6 just as well as it does over cat3, and rj11/12 plugs into rj48 just fine). Of course, trying to retrofit that kind of wiring into the house would be expensive. But I'm pretty sure it'd also be worth it.

This here post be locked me hardys, as my kiddo can't see it that way.

I hate you all.

Jamie