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Impactful? Designed and deployed credit card readers used in gas pumps back in 1979. (Sold to Gasboy) Wrote a fine tuner to allow communication between satell
by egberts1 4y ago
Impactful?
Designed and deployed credit card readers used in gas pumps back in 1979. (Sold to Gasboy)
Wrote a fine tuner to allow communication between satellites (precursor to TDRSS days). Still used to this day.
Failover of IP in ATM switches (VVRP, PXE, secondary DHCP, secondary DNS, secondary LDAP, secondary NFS). While not invented here, it is still used today as this is a Common setup to this day.
Printer drivers for big, big high-speed Xerox printers on BSD. Still used to this day by big, big high-speed printers.
Also, early IDS products (pre-Snort) at line-speed. Sold to Netscreen.
Easy zero-setup of DSL modem before some BellCore decided to complicate things (thus exploding their field deployment budgets; Southwestern Bell/Qwest enjoyed our profitable zero-setup). Sold to Siemens.
1Gps IDS/IPS before selling it to 3Com/Hewlett-Packard Packard.
Now, I'm dabbling in a few startups (JavaScript HIDS, Silent Connections, replacing the systemd-temp).
Impact? It is more about personal pride but its impacts are still being felt today.
- keepquestioning 4y agoHow did you find all these product market fits? Have you made more than a typical SWE?
- egberts1 4y agoIt was actually a wandering hyperactive/ADHD mind that often said "why isn't there one" and follows through doggedly to the very end. It is one of those traits where a mind clicks and said "this is it and how" and surprisingly gets into the most illusive hyperfocus/high-energy mode (without using any drug). Slow-path network processing (arguably me) was commercially made in Ascom Timeplex in 1982 and someone else leaked it to Cisco (or ripping AT's patent off). I got that from observing how different river bends (re)connect year-after-year while doing trout fishing trips. Money-wise, I am disabled, got abled, disabled again in different way, re-enabled, now just coasting with my own ideas: JavaScript Host-Based Intrusion Detection/Protection System, being one of them. And an portable AirPod detector (for home/auto/travel) is another idea. And DNSSEC for within private enterprise is almost done. Money is not my thing but it does help greatly in the pursuit of my ideals (so many hardwares, so many test equips).
- itsthecourier 4y agoHow did you get disabled?
- taforask272277 4y agocan you please explain what is JavaScript Host-Based Intrusion Detection/Protection System?
- egberts1 4y agoIt is simple. Too many malicious and privacy-violating JavaScript abounds, especially after being boiled down to seemingly-indecipherable WebAssembly bytecode. And a typical enterprise NIDS would not be able to see beyond those encrypted packet containing JS over 2-way-signed TLS/SSL, or HTTPv3 (QUIC) (or a few other E2E protocols). Since JavaScript won't be banned (unlike Adobe Flash/ActionScript, BTW Adobe's JavaScript is still being used within PDF files) anytime soon, this is another example of seeing a void and rushing to fill its need for the betterment of Internet citizens. Just yesterday, another "this is it and how" moment came to me: this Python PDF guy (and a few PDF experts) got me thinking "this is how to remove or make inert the JavaScript inside PDF": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33646951 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33646951
- rglover 4y agoObligatory: https://youtu.be/jjaqrPpdQYc?t=14 https://youtu.be/jjaqrPpdQYc?t=14
- tuyguntn 4y agoOMG, Who are you?