It's a Holiday Miracle
I just switched to the Holiday Miracle Plan from WindMobile.ca. I thought I'd mention it since it's not advertised, but a fantastic deal. You have to sign up by December 26th, but you get to keep this...
View ArticleI am now an IPv6 Sage
Long time no blog... I've been realy busy getting the Ottawa IPv6 Summit off the ground (along with several other people from OCLUG). I'll have to blog about that soon. Anyway... I've also been...
View ArticleOttawa IPv6 Summit 2011
In the summer of 2010 a half dozen OCLUG members decided it would be a good idea to put on an IPv6 conference for Ottawa. I was one of those people! At the time IANA still had lots of IPv4 addresses,...
View ArticleWhat is IPv6, and why should I care?
[ NOTE: this article began as the front page of the IPv6 Summit.ca website ] Whenever you use the Internet, you are using an Internet Protocol (IP) - a set of rules for communication between...
View ArticlePresentation slides published!
What a busy week! As the dust of the (extremely) well attended Ottawa IPv6 Summit settles, we are working through some post conference tasks. I've just updated the presentation page on the site to...
View Articlehow to manually create a 6in4 tunnel
I'm doing some IPv6 codig for a client and needed to setup a bunch of 6in4 tunnels. Thre are many ways to do this through distribution init scripts (Debian, Fedora), but I wanted something less...
View ArticleHDD -> SDD
After reading and hearing everyone raving about SSDs for a couple of years it was hard to resists the upgrade. So I got an Intel SSD 510 120GB to replace my Seagate 2.5" laptop HDD. The prices in the...
View Articletunnelbroker vs IRC
IRC not working over HE.net 6in4 tunnel? read on... I recently switched VPS's (to Digital Ocean) and because my new co-location provider does not come with native IPv6, I had to use a tunnel....
View Articleautomount mmcblk devices
I put my camera SD/HC card into my laptop (running Debian/testing) and it didn't mount. Usually I would just run the mount command to get it going: dmesg | tail mount /dev/mmcblk0p1 /mnt That...
View Articleimproving find -exec efficiency
So today I learned about find -exec ... + $ mkdir 1 2 3 4 $ for d in 1 2 3 4 ; do touch $d/{a,b} ; done $ find -type f -exec echo {} \; ./2/b ./2/a ./4/b ./4/a ./1/b ./1/a ./3/b ./3/a $ find -type f...
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