As I sit here thinking if this site is worth my time, some words that someone said to me recently ring true. “Take from things you’re doing every day” is what Brent Salisbury of networkstatic.net said to me. He was right.
    …And it was why I originally started this site, in a way. The original goal was to make a site I could take notes on and possibly help out someone trying to solve the same issues as me or look at something from the same perspective I had.  I do…

     I’ve been doing research, carrier and service provider networking for a long time.  I my first real service provider experience was beta testing DSL for GTE back in the 1990s, I prototyped and proposed a CLEC for an employer in 1998 and went to work for the only ISP in the area rolling it’s own DSL over ATM in early 2000.
    Everything seems to come full circle, though, given enough time.  Right now I’m working on many projects, but two of them jumped out as particularly…

I’ve had a co-located server in one way or another for the last 11 years.  From hosting a bare metal box at the ISP I worked for for a while, to sharing a bare metal box at a colo provider to switching to a VPS service, I’ve always had an “offsite box”.
I just wanted to post a quick “these guys are great” comment to my current VPS provider, ARP Networks.  Not only do they have native IPv6, they also don’t oversell their VPS hosts and have unparalleled…

Recently I was poking around Mail.app, setting up my new machine. I like to keep redundant copies of everything, email being no exception. I have backups of all of my email dating back to 1998, for the most part. It has come in handy from time to time and I like it for reference reasons. It’s a small amount of actual data as far as space goes, and it’s easy to do. I remembered the days of using mutt for email (which really weren’t that long ago for me), and really liked the…

I had very high hopes for iMessage. With the release of iOS 5, one of the big new features was iMessage, the ability to do Blackberry messenger style messaging on an iOS device. I had really hoped that this would be something like wifisms or the DeskSMS app for Android. At the very least I was hoping for iChat integration with iMessage.

It looks like MacOS 10.7 (Lion) has fully functioning DHCPv6. It’s about time.

I’ve been a *BSD user since around 1997, when I installed NetBSD on a Mac SE 30 that I got for free. I was always intrigued with alternative operating systems like BeOS, *BSD, Plan9 and Linux so it made sense that I’d poke around with different systems.

*Cross posted from my personal blog since it’s a technical subject*