Posts by Jon 9

Official: North America COMPLETELY OUT of new IPv4 addresses

Overlapping IPs

A number of years ago I received a call saying that we couldn't reach a well-known-museum-based-in-South-Kensington's web site from our internal LAN via our proxy servers but it worked fine from the wifi network on the campus.

After much head scratching & eventually getting hold of someone at aforementioned museum I discovered that they were using the same IP range for their internal network as had been allocated to us for our public addresses and therefore NAT addresses. Consequentially return traffic was being routed to their internal LAN and not back to us... This took quite a bit of explaining...

(The Wireless wasn't affected as it was on a different subnet)

Once I'd discovered this I could re-program the NAT router to use a different set of IP specifically for traffic to the museum while they set about a program to renumber internally. This work-around was fine until I had to hand back the address space that I was using for the work-around and the problem resurfaced.... (in fairness they'd only had 2 years to renumber at this point)

The BBC wants to slap a TAX on EVERYONE in BLIGHTY

Worth the fee just for the website

Their online services alone are worth the license fee - hardly watch any broadcast stuff these days, but the online content is invaluable.

UK flights CRIPPLED by system outage that shut ALL London airspace

Generator stories....

If we're on generator stories mine from experience...

The backup generator isn't big enough to power the whole building, so there are essential and non essential supplies. The generator has a day tank with enough fuel for a few hours running and there's a bigger main tank which is below ground. There is a pump that fills the day tank from the main tank when the level drops.....

All works great, except that the pump was connected to a non-essential supply.....

Brits: Wanna know how late your train is? Now you can slurp straight from the source for free

Non-Passenger information?

Does this include information about non-passenger rail movements?

I'd love an app that will tell me whether a level crossing is going to be closed at a particular time so I could plan an alternative route.

Some level crossings around here are closed for up to 40 minutes out of the hour!

O2 quietly cans gratis Cloud Wi-Fi connectivity

2.8M sites? Male cow excrement

They get that figure by counting the BTFon sites that are turned on by default on all BT broadband routers.

They don't guarantee access even if you're a paying customer to BTOpenzone. You've never been able to get access if you're on a 3rd party (eg O2)!

I cancelled my account with them when I found this out.

Apple stores getting close to overload

Artificial Scarcity?

Apple are geniuses at using artificial scarcity as a marketing tool. What better way of hyping a new shiny thing than have idiots queuing up for days to be the first to get it "just in case it runs out". The same is true of the stores, make them look full & make the staff look busy. I seriously doubt that the stores are as busy as they make out.

The other day I had to get quite grumpy in the store when they refused to honour the appointment I had made citing that they were too busy. When I complained to the manager another appointment magically opened up, I was "Very Lucky" according to the staff - my arse, they had contingency appointments that they didn't want to give out so they could look busy.

Really, you shouldn't have to shout at people in a shop to let them have £120 for doing a 2 minute job.

Reg hacks confront really wide Oz load terror

You forgot....

The most important link when talking about the Bagger 288

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azEvfD4C6ow

Canonical's Dell and Lenovo love lets Ubuntu down

iPad "just works"?????

I got an iPad a couple of weeks ago. I have to say far from "just works" I find it a rather flakey and unreliable device.

Applications that you would expect to be rock solid (read safari, mail & itunes) crash on an alarmingly regular basis, even with the latest upgrade.

I'm glad I paid the right price for it (£0).

Orange gets UK iPhone deal

oh #@$% &#@!!!!!!!

Took out a 3gs on o2 6 weeks ago, ditching my work provided orange phone cos their selection of handsets was crap....

Now this....

Grrr....

DARPA seeks orbital wheely-bin plan

Obvious really...

They need a vacuum cleaner.....