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Trip to India
I’m posting this from Hyderabad India, where I’ve come to interview network engineers for one of my customers.
So, what do you do when you’re in India, all the food is hot, your stomach is rebelling, and the toilet rolls come in these ‘denominations’?
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The little yellow things are called “auto-rickshaws, or 4-in-all’s – only 4 people allowed, or six schoolchildren. I took a ride in one.
I simply call them deathtraps now. Cause that’s what they are.
Compex WP18/IXP425 Port Completed
I’ve spent most of December hacking on an Intel IXP425 device, and I must say, I’m rather amazed at the performance these little things pump out. Mikrotik needs to forget about the Mips architecture. It’s outdated and performs crappily. I’ve tested this little board clocking over 80Mbps ROUTED traffic between interfaces.
The PCengines WRAP, and Routerboard 532 is dead. Intel IXP425+ is where it’s at. You cannot find another chipset with integrated VLAN support, hardware crypto acceleration, integrated USB, I2C, and all the other fancies for the same price.
The device I ported to OpenWRT and registered in the ARM machine registry is the Compex WP18 a very nice general purpose network and wireless device.
Software stacks and basic programmer courtesy
When will commercial software vendors start owning up to their “free” roots? I just installed some software tonight, that’s well over two years old, using PPPoE to communinicate with a modem, and it conflicted with my installed version of WinPCAP.
Of course, WinPCAP is not mentioned as a component in the orignal software, WHATSOEVER.
Way to stick to the licenses guys! I will quote from the WinPCAP license documentation:
1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
Total disregard. And in this case, it’s the THIRD PARTY SOFTWARE PROVIDER to the actual Hardware vendor provider who is in breach.
Man. The Software world is screwed.
The Fridge, A nightclub
I ran TheFridge (as a partner) for a number of years. Some of us a little “older” in the teeth, and with a taste for Gothic/Industrial music, might remember the club.
I will finish ranting about this at some stage, but let me tell you: being a Nightclub Owner really just isn’t worth it. It sucks your will to live.
The Fridge, is located here http://thefridge.co.za
Tribes:Vengance Server Lister
I wrote a small PHP script that uses QStat, and XML/XSL to display a Tribes:Vengeance servers’ server state. If you can’t make it work please don’t bug me for support. There is NO support for this thing and I don’t have the time to answer everyone’s queries, even though I’d like to.
It’s available here under a GPL license.