Confit de Canard
This years Christmas I decided to live up to the Duck Dogma (“Whenever you see Duck, eat it!”) and made Confit de Canard. Confit is a means of preparation where one starts with salting the meat and then cook it gently, …
Year: 2007
Planet Earth to M$…. beeebbb… noiisssseee… beeepppp
I just read an article on ZDnet. It describes a demo of an exploit on an un-patched XP SP1 machine on an open wireless network. The MS executive was surprised by the ease of the attack. Nick McGrath, head of platform …
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IPv6 Depletion Song
From The RIPE 55 Secret Working Group Report a long long time ago i can still remember when my laptop could connect elsewhere and i tell you all there was a day the network card i threw away had a …
Republikeins Genootschap?
Ik ben er uit. Ik hoef niet bij het republikeins genootschap. Ik noem mezelf: Gedoogmonarchist
XN–BLAFOO
Yesterday the following data appeared in the root zone… XN–0ZWM56D. XN–11B5BS3A9AJ6G. XN–80AKHBYKNJ4F. XN–9T4B11YI5A. XN–DEBA0AD. XN–G6W251D. XN–HGBK6AJ7F53BBA. XN–HLCJ6AYA9ESC7A. XN–JXALPDLP. XN–KGBECHTV. XN–ZCKZAH. in Amsterdam Zweegers was found death in a bath tub and the statistics on child death did …
Debating technique
What is the name of the debating trick that starts with making wide sweeping statements about the community of your opponent, like in: Our 61st Febember blog post on Chocolate Cookies has generated significant attention. It is gratifying to see culinary …
The Amen Break
This video contains an expose by Nate Harrisson about the “Amen Break”. I did not know about the “Amen Break” as a concept and this video is an eyeopener. A good piece of music history and theory that, when you …
GNU wins!
You probably thought this was about an open source license. (These are probably not even Gnus, but I know more about GPL than about African animals.).
The Mix Up
My brother in law gave me a late birthday present: The latest Beasty Boys album: The Mix-UP. I have had a weak spot for the Beasty Boys for many years. I am not particularly fond of their rap style, …
NAT too Smart
EDITED July 12 2007 The text below is an update from the original post (June 18, 2007), that original post turned out to contain a few errors. We have an asterisk server installed back at work and for the teleconferencing …