Bluecobra

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by Bluecobra 9mo ago
I recently passed the CCNA again and they really spend a lot more time on IPv6 compared to 15 years ago. It inspired me to go all in this time and configured my home network with a PD allocation from my ISP. I also came up with some fun l
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by Bluecobra 9mo ago
Heh. When I was in high school, cell phones and pagers were banned based on the assumption that only drug dealers could afford them.
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by Bluecobra 9mo ago
I was in Cub Scouts in the early 90s and got a Swiss Army knife. I thought it would be cool to show it off to the kids on the bus. It got confiscated by the principal and I was suspended for one day. I think I got off light. I can’t imag
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by Bluecobra 9mo ago
> Be aware of unintended consequences when you (try to) cut a child off from computer use. In the mid 90’s I got my first PC when I was 13 but my parents would not let me online. I ended up finding a way via nefarious means. I bought a
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by Bluecobra 9mo ago
As an ex-Mint user, Monarch has been a very useful and I feel I spend way less time monkeying around trying to recategorize transactions. I really like the budget rollover feature, it really helps smooth out things like yearly insurance re
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by Bluecobra 9mo ago
At my first job in finance I worked at a trading firm that recruited people off the street to electronically click trade futures. They would ride the intraday market moves and constantly open/close positions. At the end of the day they
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by Bluecobra 10mo ago
The Starbucks locations near me recently replaced their brewed coffee with on-demand coffee machines for each flavor, so I guess we are all destined to wait in the queue for coffee.
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by Bluecobra 10mo ago
Funnily enough Cisco’s stock has recently recovered back to its dotcom peak.
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by Bluecobra 10mo ago
I loved the MBP’s from that era. That was my first (easy) upgrade as well in addition to more memory. Those 5400 RPM hard drives were horrible. Also another slick upgrade you could do back then is to swap out the super drive with a caddy
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by Bluecobra 1y ago
Sorry I confused prefix delegation with with having an allocation. I have multiple /64’s. It looks like with PD you can have up to 16 subnets, so equal to a /60.
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by Bluecobra 1y ago
If anything they will build a backup DC in Texas so they can hold that over NJ in case the local government starts talking about transaction taxes again. The CME is currently building a “backup” private Google Cloud datacenter in Dallas.
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by Bluecobra 1y ago
Huh? I have ATT fiber and have a /56. Edit: n/m I guess I confused PD with having a larger subnet. :(
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by Bluecobra 1y ago
They are building out a new data center in Texas. Bloomberg did a mini documentary a few months ago about it. https://youtu.be/GhIJs4zbH0o
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by Bluecobra 1y ago
Yep, and I remember also buying a Cambridge Soundworks 4-speaker setup and it was awesome!
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by Bluecobra 1y ago
That being said, the cloud providers could do a better job explaining to new/naive users that great power comes with great responsibility and there is no hand holding. Someone might be more hesitant to willy nilly spin up something if
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by Bluecobra 1y ago
When I am playing around in the cloud I am super paranoid about charges, so I end up locking the ACLs to only permit traffic to my home IP. It’s too bad that they don’t have a better built in way of making sandbox labs. When I was doing c
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by Bluecobra 1y ago
This appears to be a server emulator for the defunct MMO Need for Speed World. My guess is that need they need to spoof the TLS certs and install local host entries to get the original game client to work.
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by Bluecobra 1y ago
This is exactly how I use AI at work—-to quickly generate funny meme images/inside jokes for a quick chuckle. I’m no artist and probably will never be one. My digital art skills amount to drawing stick figures in MS Paint.
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by Bluecobra 1y ago
I also liked SMF as well, but I do admit I “cheated” by using a website to make the XML service manifests.
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by Bluecobra 1y ago
You used to be able to connect two PC’s together via the parallel port. I had to do this once to re-install Windows 95 on a laptop with a hard drive and floppy. It was painfully slow but it worked.
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by Bluecobra 1y ago
It depends on the firewall. For example, a Palo Alto can match by application and do SSL decryption in where the firewall acts as a MITM. A locked down environment would likely only allow SSL on TCP/443, and block UDP/443 to den
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by Bluecobra 1y ago
Oh man those tunnels. I remember a tunnel scam where a seller would close the trade window and quickly reopen it with a lesser item that used the same icon. Not sure if the GMs did anything about it but I always made sure to carefully inspe
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by Bluecobra 1y ago
I credit ShowEQ with learning Linux and getting everything to work correctly. I remember absolutely trashing my PC a few years earlier trying to install Debian from a Boot magazine CD. Glad I didn’t break my monitor with bad XFree86 settin
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by Bluecobra 1y ago
There was a cheat program that kinda did this called ShowEQ. It analysed the EverQuest network traffic and was able to draw a map of the zone, and showed called the NPCs and players. The best part was that it even showed what loot was on
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by Bluecobra 1y ago
Not sure if I agree with it being the worst mistake. The beauty of UDP is its simplicity and you get the absolute minimum. (And that’s the way I like it!) I’ve worked on low latency financial networks that route 40+ Gb of UDP multicast da
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by Bluecobra 1y ago
I think the OP was referring to the difference in synthesizers. It sounds a heck of a lot different on an MT-32 compared to a Sound Blaster: https://youtu.be/0j4uywdNq44
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by Bluecobra 1y ago
1. SSL 2. I’m old enough to remember 56-bit SSL encryption in browsers
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by Bluecobra 1y ago
It’s probably a good thing I didn’t have the knowledge/skills I have now, it might have saved me from trouble. Back in those days I was more interested in getting Back Orfice to remotely open a CD-ROM tray on a friend’s computer. I r
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by Bluecobra 1y ago
You can definitely route multicast over the Internet via some kind of tunnel, be it stunnel, VPN, GRE. The ICE exchange uses stunnel for dev/certification multicast.
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by Bluecobra 1y ago
You don’t need a large network to participate to BGP. You just need a /24 (IPv4) or /48 (IPv6) allocation, AS number, and a business class Internet connection that can do BGP. Might be out of reach for most hobbyists but not imp

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