Wednesday July 23, 2008 Random ramblings
Wednesday July 23, 2008 In a similar vein to my attempt to dissuade RIPE from continuing with AS-dot format, James Spenceley has submitted APNIC policy proposal 65 to try get APNIC to change their ways.
( Jul 23 2008, 12:34:42 PM IST ) Permalink Comments [0]A new, interesting, soft/side-band approach to BGP security: Pretty Good BGP.
No crypto involved, no need for extensive deployment. Just monitoring the BGP routing table and reporting anomolous updates to the operator for further investigation. What's especially interesting is that they claim this system has discovered otherwise unknown hijacks of important prefixes.
( Jul 23 2008, 12:18:13 PM IST ) Permalink Comments [0]
Wednesday July 02, 2008 Recipe for discovering new music:
- Go to last.fm and sign-up for an account
- Configure your MP3 player's last.fm plugin with your account details (you may need to download and install a plugin if your player does not already provide one - I use rhythmbox's).
- Listen to your own, favourite music for a while (e.g. a few weeks), to "scrobble" tracks to last.fm and seed your profile.
- Use your last.fm plugin's playlist features, such as "My Neighbourhood", "Artist Similar to" and/or "Tagged with" to discover new music.
When is a Sunni fundamentalist terrorist not a terrorist?
.... Why, when they're Baluchistani 'dissidents' agitating against the Iranian regime, of course! One could perhaps predict that in 20 odd years time Baluchistanis will be identified as being behind some terrible terrorist attrocity committed in the west, but then one would need a basic sense of history!
In other news, Nelson Mandela and other ANC members have been taken off the US terrorist watch lists. ANC terrorism of course was not terrorism, but instead the noble, indiscriminate maiming and killing of people who would have gladly volunteered to have died for freedom had they been offered a chance (and those who wouldn't have must have been apartheid lovers). Anyway, it seems the only way off the terrorist watch-list (besides being a US Senator or buddies with the head of the US DHS) is to be a successful terrorist..
In other news, scientists have discovered a new shade. Said to be neither white, nor black, it has tentatively been named 'grey' and even may possibly form a continuum. It is speculated the world may in fact be full of it...
( Jul 02 2008, 04:55:55 PM IST ) Permalink Comments [0]
