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Pet Peeves

Buying shoes for kids

The feet of kids are delicate things and as a caring parent you’re supposed to make sure that the spawn’s footwear fits his ever-growing feet. Ok, spring is coming and thus the time is near where we can stop using his #24 winter boots and give him “normal” shoes again. So off to the store […]

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IETF

IETF drinks: Regarding domains in usecases-02

I’ve written about this already a few times in various IETF / RIPE lists, but it seems to be relevant to the current draft as well, so here is a repeat: According to the usecases draft, SSPs report the public identities of their customers to the registry so that the registry can store the mapping […]

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IETF

Some comments on draft-channabasappa-drinks-usecases-requirements-02

Richard wants feedback, so here it comes. This document is a _lot_ better than -01. Much more consistent. Overall impressions: This is a telco design. Basic bell-head thinking with only some marginal sprinkling of Internet ideas. This is a document which describes how one might carry over the telco provisioning, interconnection and call routing approaches […]

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System Administration

Windows XP: Doh.

Letzte Woche: Verarschen kann ich mich selber.

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Pet Peeves

Kafka would be proud

I used to work for KPNQwest, which was a pan-European company. They tried to offer seamless service across Europe (which failed miserably) and tried things like regional service centers. Dealing with Interxion gives me Deja-Vues. They, too, try to offer the same service in all of their Datacenters across Europe. And they, too, have their […]

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Tracks

Train Tracks

This one started with a plain rounded square and then started to branch out.