...thermostat, refrigerator, telephone (landline), telephone (wireless), wristwatch, TV, cooking appliance, light bulb, airplane seat, keychain, guitar, lawn sprinkler, the remote control that the TV weatherman holds while standing in front of the green screen, the camera pointed at them, the camera lens, the robotic pan/tilt head that the camera is mounted on, the control panel that the camera operator is using to set up the shots, the intercom panel that the camera operator is using to talk to the director (and the AD, and the TD, and the producer, and the floor manager, and the news desk...), the microphone that the weatherman is wearing, etc.

Yeah. The number of things we use in everyday life which would not have occurred to The Authors to consider as a "computing device" is mind-blowing. I seriously wouldn't be surprised if the number of addresses used just by my own company exceeds the total envelope of IPv4.

It was kind of a point of pride back when I worked at Harris that we used real world IP addresses for even the most trivial shit. Harris was early to the party, and it made life SO much easier.

IPoAC is, without question, my favorite RFC of all time.

And I love the fact that The Unlimited actually implemented it in real life. (And it beat the landline it was competing against in throughput, though obviously not in ping times.)

It definitely is a concern, even now. IANA ran out of IPv4 address to give to regional registraties in 2011, and there are places in the world where you can't get them any more. IPv6 has been getting steadily more and more popular as a result.

There are actually large cloud companies who have used up all of the RFC 1918 space allocation (192.168/16, 10/8, etc) on their internal data center networks, to the point that they run their routers with IPv6-only addressing and require extensions to the routing protocols to allow IPv4 routes to point to IPv6 nexthop addresses.

--Ian

I was doing my best to give the "drink from the hose" example, rather than the "Here's the firehose to the face example."

You are entirely correct, Ian.

fwiw: Amazon is selling gallon jugs of Rotella T6 5/40 for $22 with $1.50 coupon and $7 rebate- free ship with prime.


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when i worked at hewlett packard, they owned the 15 and the 16 net (which they got from digital equipment corporation via compaq). addresses galore.

glomming on to the nerd herd:

what are the private ipv6 addresses?

I've heard competing answers.

Some say that it's fc00::/7 as per RFC4193. Others say that has been deprecated (that fc00 is reserved for future allocation) and that fd00::/8 should be used instead. Both of these spaces, however, are technically routable.

If you want truly non-routable addresses (eg: total isolation, or whatever they call NAT these days), that's fe80::/10, which is specifically called out as a link-local range in RFC4291.

fc00::/7 was defined as the "site-local" prefix, but that got deprecated because people couldn't figure out how to define a "site". The same problem exists to a degree with NAT -- if your ISP has run out of globally routable addresses and thus using net-10 for services that they are providing to their customers, then you're going to run into problems if you want to use 10/8 for your own local stuff.

Link-local addresses really aren't the same thing.

--Ian

So, I had a visit from Verizon today. I was expecting one engineer and maybe one manager. Instead, I had like half the local corporate office show up (20+ people), and spent four hours this morning giving them a tour of the facilities. I could tell that half of these people had never been in a machine room before. Kept having to say things like "Pay attention to what's behind you, there's 480vdc on that conductor, and it will kill you if your butt touches it."

They want to trench from the street into my building and give me 100 Gb worth of fiber. And they're paying for it.

I'm naturally suspicious....

They're making you an offer you can't refuse.

--Ian

Gents, I went ahead and got myself a TIG welder...
Looked into a bunch of entry level units and asked for advice from professionals.
Long story short, I ended up acquiring this:

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Came complete with a bottle of Argon, regulator, connectors, torch, and spare tungsten electrodes.
I also bought a nifty auto darkening helmet.
It is a pretty impressive machine - I can even stick weld with it if I need to.
Can weld aluminum, stainless, unobtanium, sheets of cardboard and ice.

Got my first "crash course" from the owner of the shop my car currently resides in for my turbo manifold, DP, exhaust and other related fab work.
He showed me some pretty neat tricks and tips.
I will be signing up for certification courses offered by Oerlikon and attend whatever training program I can get a hold of.

Successfully completed my first joining task, welding two pieces of 3" stainless exhaust pieces, and it was very satisfying.

I am excite.

Will there be a sealed room with people going in and out from time to time?

Congrats, GodlessCommie. I am excite for you.

I used my mig welder just last week and was reminded how much I want it to be a Tig welder.

I mean, I get it from a business perspective. We use Comcast and AT&T for all of our fiber stuff now. The company is in the process of migrating from AT&T to Verizon for all of our cell phones, so Verizon needs to come in and install repeaters, as this place is built like a bomb shelter. (Serious, if North Korea starts tossing nukes at the midwest, WGN is where you want to be.)

When AT&T did this about 6 years ago, they just piggybacked onto an existing data circuit. Verizon doesn't have an existing circuit into our building, so they need to pull in a new fiber. They're doing this on their dime (we buy a LOT of cellular service) and they probably have a good estimate of how much landline bandwidth we use in total, so I guess it makes sense for them to just go ahead and pull in the biggest circuit they can, so that a year from now they can say "Hey, you need a 10 gig dedicated connection to some random location in Indiana? As you may know, we already have more than sufficient capacity in your building, so it'll cost you nothing to set up."





Nice.




Haha. No, we finished the asbestos mitigation last year.

That process did, in fact, look like the scene from ET. Lots of plastic sheeting, lots of air ducting, and men in bunny suits coming and going constantly.

This will just be a couple of work crews with one of those cool horizontal drill trucks.

Also a PSA:

Please do not lick the dolphins.

Thank you.

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That brings back memories. I basically rewired our lathe and plaster 1925 home that way. Same for the home audio and security system. Found all the absurd lumber nailed into to bizarre places. Also found out the second floor burned at one point and learned "clean up" did not include all the ashes.

There was a plumbing pipe directly in the line of the switch, but the builders actually put a piece of 2x4 under it directly inline where they knew people might cut. I appreciated that -- as I used a jigsaw to cut the holes. But you can see I used my brain for once, and cut a hole in the center of the planned hole cut and pushed a shirt hanger bent into a an L shape to feel if anything was in the way just in case (2nd hole on ceiling). Luckily I did that step else I'd been covered in poo.

otherwise no hitches, smooth install, just hate filling holes.

but now you have a ceiling fan....

These photos remind me of an old Benny Hill sketch, where two Irishmen needed to move a hole, from one side of a yard to the other. They did it in small steps, moving the hole one metre at a time.
The photo above looks like you're moving a power point from one side of the room to the other, one metre at a time.

As if being covered in poo while filling holes scares miata drivers.

pretty much what I had to do. 16" at a time.

I still can't figure out what I'm looking at here:

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Yeah I'm struggling a little on that pic too. Trying to figure out if it's clever or silly.

it's a piece of sheet rock with the rock removed and paper remaining for overlapping the joint. It is screwed to a back-up board that he pre-inserted and anchored on the sides of the hole.

This way you can tightly fit the repair and cover the joint with paper so mudding is minimal and strength is retained.

presumably he removed the paper around the perimeter of the hole to keep it all flush and just screed over the gaps.

BTW Brain, that spray texture shit was a perfect match for my bathroom ceiling that I hacked up. Looks like it was never touched.

Next time, I'd spring for the whole $2 option. :dunno:

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Ah, I see it now. I was interpreting the paper as having been stuck over separately.

Never seen anyone cut only the gypsum portion and leave the paper intact. More accustomed to just cutting the whole plug to fit and either taping it or, you were really precise with the cut, using plaster alone.

My dad does this and it pisses me off to no end. When I cut drywall, it looks like ...(trying to invent a satisfactory simile here)...the result of trying to cut a dry, powdery, crumbly material with a jagged-toothed saw.

Google: California patch.

I just painted, I tried the introduce texture with light rolling and a rough roller, but not much avail. What stuff you use?

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The way I learned it was to start with a small piece of rough-cut drywall (maybe 6" larger than you need on each side), score the cut you want to make with a utility knife and a metal ruler (cut all the way through the paper and into the gypsum, but no need to go too deep), and then just snap it over the edge of a table with a sharp, forceful motion. Same basic principle as cutting sheet glass. The backside will be a tad rough, but you'll have a perfect edge on the front side.

Homax 20 oz. Wall Orange Peel Low Odor Water Based Spray Texture
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I think. hd.

Funny thing happened at the Detroit airport... I logged on here from my phone and... received this email from the site:

Which suggests verizon is on the ipv6 train.

that's what I did.

I kept each piece of drywall I cut out as a template but purchased a sheet of 2x2' drywall.

I put the template down and traced a square that was roughly 1" large diameter on each side, then traced the template shape in the middle.

I cut the larger shape out using your method. Score the back edge of the paper-liner and then snap the drywall, then cut the front paper cleanly.

So I'm left with a perfect plug, with the drywall "tape" already in place. butter the inside edge and backside of the paper-liner and smooth it all out. the ceiling turned out very well -- there's a few little lumps but no worse than some of the existing nail pops. the texture doesn't match, so you see the bald spot.

it's just the way I've always done it. I've never liked drywall tape or that mesh stuff for patching holes. With this type of patch, you basically just have to taper the paper-liner edge.

2600::0 ? You been h@x0red. :)

Back when I worked at Qualcomm I used the modem dial in pool (hey, it was 1994). All the company numbers were 769-xxxx, so of course the modem pool was 769-2600...

--Ian

verizon cereal toy


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This reference is in Ready Player One

Power to you, man..

Mazda held a track event that lasted three days, ending today.
First day (Wednesday) was reserved for dealer personnel training, and Thursday and Friday were for us Mazda folk.
Drive the whole Mazda line up, ride along with pro drivers in an ND on the track, and let it loose solo in your own or Mazda provided Miata - sorry, MX-5.
I was there on both days and about 75 people attended each day. Food was good, there was plenty of tea (and all sorts of beverages) and it was a very successful event.

Laps were timed.
I drove the 1.5 MX-5 and the RF, and several people showed up in souped up RX8s.
I came in second on Thursday, and got first place today.
​​​​​​​Felt excite.

Might be too late, but let me know if you want to say hi. I'm a med student here.

Yeah, you guys should meet up. I didn't realize you were in the same place. Roger just did a whole week up there a few weeks ago.

And, I just got back.

a) 10+ hours of driving in a 36 hour period is too damn much.

b) Ever notice that when you get contrast for a CT, your balls get warm before your head? Even the body has priorities.

c) I am no longer the star patient. At least it looks that way. I have leaks, at least one of which needs to be repaired.

d) Repair is outpatient, and is apparently not a big deal. Like a minor angioplasty.

^You really know how to cheer a guy up, lol.

xturner, that's exactly right. The old method was to open you up and quilt the aorta back together with lots of stitches. They still do it that way in most of the country. That is why this FDA trial is so important, because it's so much less invasive. Here it is, less than 4 weeks later, and I'm pretty much back to my old self, minus the threat of internal rupture. I really am much more upset that I have to make the drive all over again than the fact that there are some leaks. That should say something about how advanced this new procedure is.

So, they have tentatively scheduled the fix for the 17th. Since it's a simple outpatient, I will only be driving up the night before, and leaving soon afterwards. Not really any time for a meet. Thanks for the offer, and I may take you up on it sometime in the future when I have to come back.

I'm(We're) just glad to hear your OK. UMAss does some interesting CV stuff - some years ago they used a new hybrid ablation procedure to fix my brother's atrial fibrillation problem -a joint thing they developed with the Cleveland Clinic. Basically, gave him a normal life back, sort of like your case. Very cool, wish I could have seen all the technology he told me about.

I just wish there was some miracle cure like this for my sister. Just got back from a weekend in Florida, and though she tries to hide it (and does a fairly respectable job), it's pretty clear that her replacement lungs are wearing out. Chronic organ rejection is a bitch.

Shit. Sorry man.

It's a terrible feeling when loved ones are ill, and there is nothing you can do. Commiserations, Joe.

Sorry, Joe.

Sorry to hear about your sister, Joe.

I met this redneck girl in a bar. One thing led to another, and we ended up having sex.

Suddenly, her brother, father and boyfriend burst into the room. Boy, was he mad.

Pizza delivery is starting to get weird.

JetBlue will deliver authentic New York pizza to you in LA on the same day you order it

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Tim Wenger May 4, 2018

WHEN YOU’RE STUCK on the West coast and craving a big, thin slice of cheesy epicness, your options can be quite limited. Up until recently, your only solutions were to either fly across the country to satisfy your craving or stop by a local shop and settle for what’s likely nothing more than an imitation. New York airline JetBlue is about to revolutionize the situation with their new “Pie in the Sky” promotion.

The airline has partnered with the legendary Patsy’s Pizzeria of East Harlem, one of the city’s long-standing classics of the pizzeria circuit, to fly New York pizza to California and deliver it to customers on the same day they order it. Patsy’s is famous for its super thin crust, coal oven-fired pizza, and you can choose between plain cheese and pepperoni.

Customers place their orders on JetBlue’s website beginning each day at 12:00 AM. A set number of pies can be delivered each day, and orders will stop being taken once the limit is reached. The talented pizza chefs at Patsy’s prep the pies in their restaurant kitchen. They then pack the pizzas for flight and hand them off to JetBlue to fly across the country. Once in Los Angeles, the pies are heated and delivered right to your home.

You can track your order on the website. If you order right at midnight the night before, you might be eating New York pizza for dinner the following evening. Delivery costs have yet to be released, but one thing’s for sure: when you have the itch that only real New York pizza can scratch, there’s no price too high.

If you’ve never been to New York and feel insecure about your pizza handling skills, check out this handy video from JetBlue starring Spike Lee, where he walks you through the basics of stuffing your face with the world’s best pie, the most cardinal rule being: put the knife and fork away and learn how to fold.





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Wouldn't it simply be easier to just email the recipe?

Water makes a big difference in the dough. Having them reheated in LA probably makes them not so great.
I am hoping they at least cook them in the coal oven first and reheat in LA. The coal oven gives a unique flavor/texture to the crust.
This seems more like marketing for JetBlue than a viable source for NY pizza in LA.

NY-style pizza is incredibly overrated.