kitteh

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by kitteh 6y ago
They used UHF to talk to ATC. Related post: https://www.airlinepilotforums.com/archive/index.php/t-56350...
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by kitteh 6y ago
Kennedy Steve is pretty famous (now retired). There's an interview with him on YouTube that's neat.
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by kitteh 6y ago
The challenge was that depending on the role, the union was involved. When that came into the picture there was a long, dragged out grievance process where someone would have to violate the policy x amount of times in y months before they&#
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by kitteh 6y ago
Telcos have this level of monitoring of accounts because employees routinely would abuse this access to find details of exs, family members, friends and celebrities (billing info, call detail records, etc.). The problem was there was no pro
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by kitteh 6y ago
Correct, people keep repeating this story - it's false. I know controllers who have actually controlled the U2 and SR71 and they've explained why it's not true (they don't use the same freq, etc.). Also Brian Shul (the o
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by kitteh 6y ago
DCS has put some great training tutorials that come with it. That combined with Chuck's super detailed and colorful PDFs guides for each aircraft as amazing. Agree that multiplayer how-to's is lacking.
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by kitteh 6y ago
BGP is a routing protocol that is mostly used for propagating routing/reachability information that also includes additional data that can be used (communities as tags, etc). A few years ago folks wanted to bake in additional functiona
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by kitteh 6y ago
Flowspec strikes again. Its a super useful tool if you want to blast out an ACL across your network in seconds (using BGP) but it has a number of sharp edges. Several networks, including Cloudflare have learned what it can do. I've see
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by kitteh 6y ago
Not just discuss, but fix too :)
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by kitteh 6y ago
It's dated and not particularly useful if you want to learn how things are really done on the internet in a practical sense. So if you read it, be prepared to unlearn a bunch of stuff.
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by kitteh 6y ago
Ddos tracking sites are eye candy and garbage. Stop using them. Outages and nanog lists are your best bet, short of being on the right IRC channels.
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by kitteh 6y ago
sneak you should come back to irc :)
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by kitteh 6y ago
RPKI is a totally diff problem here, though. If people refuse to sign ROAs, then they don't get protection. The ARIN TAL thing is real and people have to keep fighting that. As it is right now you can xfer v4 out of ARIN but not v6. So
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by kitteh 6y ago
There are plenty of presentations out there. See nanog, ripe. The books are meh because they're not written by operators. They're more academic and dated. Plenty of clueful folks on the right IRC channels.
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by kitteh 6y ago
Root cause identified. Folks are turning things back on now.
46.
by kitteh 6y ago
Most of level3s settlement free peers aka "tier 1s" have shutdown or depreffed their sessions with them. Example: https://mobile.twitter.com/TeliaCarrier/status/1300074378378...
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by kitteh 6y ago
Massive reconvergence event in their network, causing edge router bgp sessions to bounce (due to cpu). Right now all their big peers are shutting down sessions with them to give level3s network the ability to reconverge. Prefixes announced
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by kitteh 6y ago
Someone I knew involved in defense procurement explained the proliferation of such devices. Basically these small companies who make these things will hound politicians saying they've got a device that can save soldiers/police liv
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by kitteh 6y ago
US LEOs are big on traffic stops + delay tactics to buy time to have the drug dog arrive and sniff a car. Back when the show "Live PD" was on it was used heavily and officer calling a "hit" on the dog in some areas somet
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by kitteh 6y ago
206s seems to be the most popular out there. Plenty of room in the back for the surveillance gear and there's a few companies that cater to fitting in all the gear in there (FLIR/TV tracking pod, additional radio gear etc.). The s
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by kitteh 6y ago
This sounds like a legit complaint. Does anyone call them out on this?
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by kitteh 6y ago
The telco Central Office I worked in had weekly tests where we'd run the generator for an hour. Everyone's desk computer required a UPS as they were on utility. Comically after a few years you'd have to get a new UPS at your
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by kitteh 6y ago
A320 and B737 had special thrust bump modes for short fields like KSNA. Going back many years to the P&W JT8D you could operate in the red provided you did it for only a certain amount of seconds and logged it down.
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by kitteh 6y ago
Yes. When I started at the phone company back in the day it was post breakup. The waste that went on when there was no competition was sickening. Many of my co-workers told me about all the abuse and theft that comes with being a monopoly -
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by kitteh 6y ago
I liked the Nortel color scheme. If youve spent enough time in COs it just seemed like a nice change. BTW the scene in Robocop (the first one) where he plugs into a computer is actually a CO with DMS100s.
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by kitteh 6y ago
I like the FORE ATM switches, the scrolling amber LEDs displaying the hostname I thought was pretty rad.
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by kitteh 6y ago
The best way I've find out if you're "on net" (have fiber going to your bldg or near it) is to befriend someone in the networking and telecom space who hoard KMZs files that map out what's installed (each telecom de
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by kitteh 6y ago
The problem is that the laws in some places will make it hard for you to become the ISP in some of those spots due to the incumbents. There are folks on the left who aren't on board with net neutrality. I'd say the common ground b
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by kitteh 6y ago
Know one major US city where the state police ran a campaign on the various interstates entering that city (and the surrounding unincorporated roads) where they were writing tickets for lights that violated state law. Went on for a few mont
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by kitteh 6y ago
I do recommend you spend some time looking at the quality Oracle provides. Their regions plug into transit providers (NTT, Level3, etc.) and their peering footprint is damn near non existent (they seem to be in the process of trying to fix

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