The Psychotic Network Ferret

Level 45, Neutral Evil, Technomage. I love UNIX systems and build carrier grade networks for fun and profit. I'm also a musician, historian, and a pretty decent cook. Lover of fuzzy animals of all sorts, but especially the kleptomaniacal, tube shaped ones.

I am completely and utterly fucking insane, a coworker once described me as, "mad-scientist level bat-shit insane."

I curse. I am a veritable fountain of fucking profanity. You have been warned. I do not fucking care if you think it makes me look bad. Plenty of things make me look like a fuck-stick shit-ass bastard. My ability to use fuck as every part of speech possible is the least of my gorram concerns. Suffice to say this account is very much NSFW. Fuck.

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2024-09-20 18:19:42

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Sure, but do you remember CD View?
And it's far shittier cousin, Tape View?

2024-09-20 12:35:06

Oh right, I should do that.
Anyone want to hire a network and systems engineer with over 20 years experience in carrier grade networks?
I also code.
#getfedihired #FediHire #fedihired

2024-09-09 02:58:31

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Well, if they have wicked awful arthritis in their knees like I do, standing up real fast is a real problem.

2024-06-15 15:25:03

You know what my problem is?
I want my computer to fucking obey me, I don't want to have to change myself to work around the latest ridiculous tech fads.

2024-06-05 13:26:00

Dear every fucking corporately owned website now: NO ONE WANTS TO INSTALL YOUR FUCKING APP THAT IS JUST A SHITTY WEB BROWSER.

2024-05-25 16:26:09

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Some say it is, but it happens all the time.
Ships on loan between the British and the USA in WW2 frequently were repainted, renamed, and issued a new hull ID. Both navies would later repaint them and return them under their original names and IDs.

2024-05-25 15:48:03

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Yes, and so named because the original Enterprise NX-01's class was actually called the NX class.
So, I've always assumed that it continued to be used in the experimental role, and that hull IDs between it and the NCC series never overlapped.
But my point is, the letter at the end wasn't even used consistently. When USS Sao Paulo became the next Defiant, she was re-hulled as NX-74205, and NOT NX-74205-A as one might expect.
Now, this was actually because the special effects budget didn't want to pay to re-shoot a bunch of stuff just to add an A to the hull.
But that is how we define canon, so, word up, j0.

2024-05-25 15:15:07

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They didn't always re-use hull IDs, nor use the letters system consistently either.
This is evident by the original USS Defiant (NCC-1764) from TOS era, and the later USS Defiant (NX-74205) from DS9, which was destroyed and replaced USS Sao Paulo (NCC-75633), and renamed to USS Defiant (NX-74205), with no A.
Which was actually done because of the re-use of stock footage in the series.
But the Enterprise beginning with the original NCC-1701 seems to be a special case. I would wager that there were several Enterprises that predate the tradition of reusing hull ID 1701. They likely did not have the insanely distinguished careers of NCC-1701.
Oh, and of course, the stated reason for NCC-1701-A being named as such at all was because of the thanks to Kirk and his crew for literally saving the Earth from destruction at the end of Star Trek IV. It was the exception, not the rule, and ships named Enterprise forever became a special case. I can't find it, but I think 1701-A was originally to be NCC-something-else USS Yorktown, but I can't find where I read that now. Then Kirk saved the Earth and they gave him a ship and a demotion instead of a Dishonorable Discharge in disgrace for defying orders in Star Trek III, stealing and destroying NCC-1701. Pretty sweat of them really.
And of course, when they introduced the NCC numbering, they quite possibly kept the NX classification system along side with non-overlapping hull IDs, as evidenced by the existence of USS Defiant (NX-74205) may years later.
Dig around Memory Alpha long enough, you will find numerous ships of the same name from different eras, that do not contain matching or even related hull IDs.
Wow, that is enough coffee and Internet for me.

2024-05-23 19:45:04

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sorry, I'm not exactly 5x5 right now.

2024-05-23 19:42:01

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Shit!
No, I didnt "break" my leg.
I just fucked it up bad, and got high on painkillers.
Important distinction!

2024-05-23 19:38:27

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yeeeees, I broke my leg!
and that is not a euphemism! my left leg is all screwed up

2024-05-23 19:26:34

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People of Walmart Aquarium?

2024-05-23 19:25:36

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I am
officially
MOAR CONFUSED!
Might be the painkillers though.

2024-05-23 19:17:48

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Was there an extra slide or something? Am I missing something?

2024-05-23 19:15:13

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I know what I like!

2024-05-23 19:11:44

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The answer is, of course, "yes."

2024-05-23 14:12:20

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ZOMG!

2024-05-15 16:44:53

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Xerox is amused.

2024-05-08 14:10:36

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Nachos and fuckin' nachos awareness.

2024-05-08 14:00:20

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Ohio has had record rainfall of late. So, my lawn has been soaked and uncuttable.
Part of it was dry enough to cut yesterday, but it was going to rain again. So I was rushing. I got about 40% of my yard down to a reasonable level, and was using the string trimmer to clean up around the house.
The grass and weeds were so high, it jammed the trimmer, jerked it out of my hand, and pulled it into the brand new siding on my house. Left a decent dent.
I screamed out, "son of a mother fucking christ nachos!"
I've been using nachos in my profanity pretty heavily ever since.

2024-05-08 13:52:53

reasons I fucking hate Mikrotik/RouterOS #64219:
Static routes are bad enough, but RouterOS will fucking CHANGE THEM ON YOU.
Legacy network has a bunch of VPNs for management access, and if the VPN flakes out, the static routes bolted onto it will get their next-hop set to "unreachable," and it will never fucking recover without manual intervention.
I'm working on ripping this bullshit out, but nachos fucking christ waffles, its a fucking STATIC route!
And as always, fuck you Chris, where ever you are.

2024-04-29 18:21:59

So, I might need a new jorb soon.
JunOS expert. EXPERT. I fucking grok networks, but I simply adore Juniper products. I run an MPLS/VPLS/VXLAN network for my home production network, and have done so for the last decade.
UNIX/Linux sysadmin, including FreeBSD/OpenBSD, Solaris and a shitload of ancient history grade UNIX.
I think in containers, I compartmentalize _everything_. VRFs, VLANs, VXLANs, jails, cgroups, zones, you name it, I can wrap my brain around it. Separation of privilege and services is my jam.
I code, I devel in perl, python, php, and C and can glue shit together with bourne shell like there is no tomorrow. I aced advanced database structures class. SQL ain't no thang.
I am not a security expert, but I care. I am security adept, I am security well informed.
I work 50+ work weeks because I get bored otherwise. I have successfully deployed IPv6 over multiple networks.
My documentation.m skills are top notch. I label _everything_ according to a standard, and enforce adherance via multiple checks.
And I think I need a new job.
#getfedihired

2024-04-17 12:31:54

I swear to god, we have all become so completely addicted to cloud services, that we have forgotten that there is a whole realm of infrastructure underneath it all, doing the actual work.

2024-04-12 16:21:40

Me: Suggestion, we standardize on ISO-8601 for all time and date formatting.
Business consultant: We can't do that, we aren't an ISO shop.

2024-04-06 15:27:27

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Hehehehehe..... "tit"

2024-04-04 13:33:07

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No SSH option? Is the CLI just editing the XML directly?

2024-04-04 12:53:56

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This would be the way to handle it.
I'm intrigued by the Firebrick, does it have a CLI, and if so, can you show me an example?

2024-04-04 12:43:51

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In the south, that is correct.
I am a Yankee, it is more face value here in the north, or at least context sensitive. I was hoping my next paragraph emphasized yes, I'm agreeing with you.
I guess not, apologies.

2024-04-04 12:42:00

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Well, I already deleted the original as I took your replies as, "you are not wanted here" and was departing the conversation.
I was agreeing with you, and emphasizing that fact by mention that I won't even own devices that support UPnP if I can help it.
Consumer routers horrify me.

2024-04-04 12:39:09

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I was agreeing with you, NAT is NOT a firewall.
I was saying bless your heart because SOOOOOOO many people fight me on this stance, it made me smile to see someone else speaking the truth.

2024-04-04 12:19:35

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"Reminder, NAT is not actually a firewall."
Oh bless your heart.
I explicitly own devices that don't support UPnP. I mean, I buy them for other reasons too, but I won't put a consumer grade NAT box on any network I run, not even my mother's house has UPnP support.

2024-03-23 13:16:42

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ISP I worked for in the 2000s had the most connected point on our network in the men's room attached to the offices in front of some grain silos.
Toilet, dust, soap, dirty porno mags...... $6500 core router.