Hang on. Just keep hanging on.

Welcome back to the land of the living, sir!

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Good to hear.

Good to hear from you -- hang in there.

Can I make anyone happy with a Racing4Me (former Racing Underground) invite? Must be able to keep a decent up/down ratio.

Now that ESPN carries the direct Sky F1 feed, and for Bahrain carried it without commercial interruption, my need for torrents is close to zero. But it would be nice to see Ted's Notebook etc. PM me details. I have bandwidth, but I have no idea of expected storage requirements.

PM me too. Couple terabytes storage. Was poweruser on what.cd.

And will be doing so the rest of the year.

I think I still have a Racing4Me account but I haven't used it in years. I got tired of waiting for the race to be over, someone to code and upload, then download, then be able to watch.

It would be nice for V8 Supercars, DTM, BTCC. But I'd have to get an HTPC again or something else, just be a PITA.

I was sitting in a restaurant yesterday and this Springsteen song came on we've all heard and for the first time I thought, "this is a date rape anthem".

Elmer Fudd did it better.

"meteoric rise"

I don't get it.
Meteors do not rise. They fall and crash.

Why do people keep using this expression to describe success?

Our dogs will be getting their own phone numbers in a couple days.
I'm buying GPS collars.

One went AWOL for over 24 hours and eventually came home with horrible wounds and gashes on his face and neck.
I thought about the idea while driving/walking/running through various neighborhoods and calling his name.

Turns out my service provider carries them at 5 bucks a month with a two year contract.
No brainer.

This is the sort of thing that the inventors of IPv4 did not envision when they decided that 4 bytes was a sufficient amount of address space.

You know, that went right over my head.
Any way to translate that into plain English?

Not enough ip addresses for every man, woman, child, vehicle, router, printer, other device, and all the animals too, I'm guessing.

IPv4 is the common IP addressing standard that uses 4 octets of 8 bits each. Your home network is very likely on a 192.168.1.x subnet, for example. A total of 32 bits seemed like a lot at the time, but then things happened. CIDR and NAT/PAT kept things working for a while, but IPv6 is due to take over...any day now.

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Got a chance to meet Vint a few years ago - "If you had to do it over again, what would you change?" was one of the best questions from the audience - The first obvious answer was address space, the second was encryption and a close third was DNS.

You met Vint Cerf?

Dude, that's like having an audience with the pope.

I am in awe.

(And also curious as to why he felt DNS was a bad idea or needed changing. It's like the one thing that just... works.)

One of my prized possessions is his autograph on a copy of RFC1149 (aka, IP over Pigeon). It's not so much that DNS was a bad idea - it's that DNS has always been a tasty attack vector from spoofing to censorship.

To further elaborate, there was a mass panic back in the day because the IP address space was running out, due to how to it's allocated.
a) YOU GET LOTS AND LOTS
b) YOU GET LOTS
c) YOU get some

That, coupled with know-nothing illiterate tech startup morons, resulted in the IP address space almost running out. It's not so much of a concern anymore, because of NAT (Network Address Translation). In the IP Address Space world, there are a few specific network (192.168.X.X, as the prime example) which are designated as private. As in, no DNS server anywhere (unless you have specifically created an internal DNS server for specific internal reasons) will ever return one of those addresses. Millions of internal networks across the globe use 192.168.X.X addresses internally. When one of those hosts talks to the internet, when the traffic leaves the border router, the border router replaces the source IP of the internal host (which is on the 192.168.X.X private network) with its own *external* public IP address. Therefore traffic from the internet gets routed back to it, it receives it, it translates the address and re-addresses it to the internal host at 192.168.X.X, and everything is seamless as far as the internal host is concerned.

So, back to the know-nothing illiterate tech startup morons. I had a contract with I-Drive, back in the day, before I-Everything was related to Apple. Every internal device was on public IP address allocation. Even the printer. I mean, NAT was not a new concept even in 2000 ...