The starting point this time was a series of switches.
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Stupidity at Evanzo
Dear Evanzo,
the contact emails in the whois records for the domains you manage are there for a purpose: If there are troubles with these domains, the responsible people can be contacted in order to get the problems fixed.
And there is a good reason these whois data is not just a blob of Ascii, but structured data: Scripts can parse the records and e.g. automatically send email to the right address.
Getting back autoreplies stating basically “please use this web-form” is not going to cut it. We will not special-case our scripts to fill out web-forms just to accommodate your setup.
You, and your customers will simply not get our Mails regarding defaced Websites hosted by your service.
Your decision, your loss.
I tried a different starting point with this one: a series of switches branching off a central piece of track. The result was a very tight, squiggly set of tracks.
Once again, the starting point was a simple oval.
Today I gave a talk at the ISPA office concerning DNSSEC. See here for the official announcement.
Attendance was good, we had interesting questions and a lively discussion.
You can download my slides in pdf format.
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All the king’s horses …
… and all the king’s men, couldn’t get Clemens’ bread together again.
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Nokia 6120 Classic and A1 Broadband
When I got my company cell-phone two years ago, I opted for a Nokia 6120. The reasoning was simple: Nokia was supposed to have a decent user-interface, the phone could act as a 3G modem for my laptop and run various simple applications like Avantgo.
Well, …
The razor business is said to have premiered the following business model: Sell the razor really cheap, but charge a lot for the blades.
Seeing the same in IT isn’t unusual, the prime examples are Inkjet printers where the printer is ridiculously cheap, but a new ink cartridge costs almost the same as the printer.
Cisco memory is another example.
I just noticed the same with HP’s new entry-level 1U server, the HP 120G5. We bought one for evaluation purposes for slightly above 500 €. Seems like a decent hardware: 1GB RAM, a Xeon processor and a single SATA harddisk. No frills, no chrome spoilers, just a straight forward server.
But: no on-board remote management. That would be extra. You need to buy the HP DL120 G5 Lights-Out 100c kit. We just plugged one of these into a DL 180, where we really need it. It’s a very tiny card. Just a PCI-E slot, a RJ45 jack and a single chip:
The price: ~ 200 €.
Sheesh.
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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 we are and what do we find?
At the end of February, the shop is already geared towards summer shoes. i.e.: open shoes and sandals. Great. That’s about 2 to 3 months in the future.
That stocking policy might make sense for shoes for adults, but for kids? The size of their feet is highly variable. You buy when you need the shoes as you want to size them correctly.
So dear shoe industry: what’s fine in the woman’s section of the store does not make sense in the kids section. There, “just in time” shopping is much more appropriate. Please stock accordingly.