Misadventures of a Celtic Geek

FYI, I’ve deactivated trackbacks since nobody seems to want to send me one :’(

And because spammers seem to love them :-[

No, I haven’t got a multi paged analyses lined up, I’ll leave that to Mark and others like him who can put it much much better than I can.

OTOH, here’s a couple of quotes for the day:

A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain.

- Mark Twain (attributed)

OCTOBER: This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August, and February.

- Mark Twain, Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Calendar

En me baladant sur le net ce midi, je suis retombé sur la site web de mon tout premier emploie.

La Maison des Etudiants (1991-2003) était une association d’aide aux étudiants, qui grâce aux emplois jeunes, entre autre fournissait divers service aux étudiants adhérants de l’association. Notament les copies et l’informatique (principalement ce de quoi je m’occuper):

J’y étais entre 2001 et 2003, et l’expérience était pour le moins formateur,

-Premier Boulot
-Premier Linux
-Premiers projets aussi

Vers la fin j’avais même fait un premier déploiement sur les posts disponibles ‘grand public’, qui aurait pu être pire point de vue désastre ;).

Malheureusement, pile au moment où mon Emploi Jeunes arrivait à term, la fac à décider de faire couler l’asso pour reprendre l’activité, et c’est ainsi que s’est terminé une expérience que je n’oublirai sans doute jamais.

Un coucou à tout ceux qui se reconnaîtront de cette époque (y compris l’Afev et Velocampus, dés assos nés de la MDE et qui battent toujours de leurs propres ailes): Xavier, Claire, Laurent….

Or mabey not, anyhow, here’s a quick counter to tell you how far away KDE4 is…

Just a quick link to a couple of xkcd webizodes…

Philippe, you were right, Python is the best thing since sliced bread!

And on a more sentimental note:

Dedicated to everyone who’re just to far away

A quick post to share a find someone sent me today on the necessity to go IPV6

And for those interested, I also managed to gat ahold of the lyrics:

A long long time ago
i can still remeber
when my labtop could connect elswhere
and i tell you all there was a day
the network card i threw away
had a purpose - and worked for you and me
But 18 years complety wasted

with each adress we´ve aggregated
the tables overflowing
the traffic just stopped flowing

And now we´re bearing all the scars
and all the traceroutes showing stars
the packets would travel faster in cars…
the day… the routers died

————-
Chorus ( ALL )
So bye bye , folks at RIPE 55
be persuaded zo upgrade it or your network will die

Ipv6 just makes me let out a sight
But i spose we´d better give it a try
I suppose we´d better give it a try

———

Now did you write an RFC
That dictated how we all should be
Did we listen like we should that day
Now were you back at RIPE fifty-four
Where we heard the same things month before
And people knew they´d have to change their ways…
And we - knew that all ISPs
Could be - future proof for centuries
But that was then not now
Spend too much time playing WOW
ooh there was time we sat on IRC
making jokes on how this day would be
Now there´s no more use for TCP
they day the routers died

————-
Chorus ( chime in now )
So bye bye , folks at RIPE 55
be persuaded zo upgrade it or your network will die
Ipv6 just makes me let out a sight
But i spose we´d better give it a try
I suppose we´d better give it a try

———

i remember those old days i mourn
Sitting in my room , downloading porn
Yeah that´s how it used to be…
When the packets flowed from A to B
via routers that could talk IP
there was data… that could be exchanged
between you and me…

Oh but- i could see you all ignore
The fact - we´d fill up IPv4
But we all lost the nerve
And we goz what we deserved !
And while… we threw our network kit away
And wished we´d heard the things they say
Put all our lives in disarray
the day … the routers died

————-
Chorus ( those silent will be shot )
So bye bye , folks at RIPE 55
be persuaded zo upgrade it or your network will die
Ipv6 just makes me let out a sight
But i spose we´d better give it a try
I suppose we´d better give it a try

———

Saw a man with whom i used to peer
Asked him to rescue my career
He just sighed and turned away
I went down to the net cafe
that I used to visit everyday
But the man there said i might as well just leave

And now we´ve all lost our purpose
my cisco shares completely worthless
No future meetings for me
At Hotel Krasnapolsky
and me that make us push and push
Like Geoff Huston and Rady Bush
Should´ve listened to what they told us….
The day… the routers. died

————-
Chorus ( time to loose your voice )
So bye bye , folks at RIPE 55
be persuaded zo upgrade it or your network will die
Ipv6 just makes me let out a sight
But i spose we´d better give it a try
I suppose we´d better give it a try

Finally, for those who want to know more:

Words and performance by Gary Feldman

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_y36fG2Oba0

seriouly its about this:

http://www.ripe.net/news/community-statement.html

Like a lot of people, I enjoy putting my day to music with Internet radio.

Unfortunately, some people want to impose crippling charges on webcasters, infinitely more than their hertzien cousins who have much deeper pockets.

In order to protest, to day has been proclaimed a ‘Day of Silence’ when internet radio shuts off. If you care about internet broadcasters, please show your support on http://www.savenetradio.org/.

Thank you

Comme promis, voici une photos de moi et ma chérie.

Bon, je sais, ça fait longtemps que je n’ai pas écrit… Et il est vrai que parfois 26h dans la journée seraient bien pour parvenir à tout faire, mais là c’est important. Il faut l’annoncé à tout le monde!

JE ME SUIS FIANCE!

Des photos seront à suivre bientot de moi et ma promise!

Bye!