by Alec Muffett
My presentation got a short review by Geoff:
Grids for Financial Services – Alec Muffett: Intensely, relentlessly, and amusingly pragmatic and iconoclastic. But you knew that.
That’s nice. Possibly as nice as his comment from November 2002:
I find your blog bizarrely compelling. This disturbs me.
…although I do wonder whether a synthesis of bizzare, compelling, and disturbing really ought to constitute high praise, I still take it as such.
No better man!
Dude! How’s life?
Very well, thanks! I decided to flaunt unconventionality and now have a house, a kid and a wife. Oh, and an O’ Reilly book! http http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/ipv6na/ — and a photography ‘business’ http http://www.southbull.com/ and no sleep. Did I mention the no sleep?
It’s really cool the way your comment filter strips attempts at blatant self-promotion like mine. You could sell it to Parliament as a content filter for MPs. Or patent it – when the EU gets around to the final phase of rolling over for Billy boy.
Interesting book! I’ve just delegated the job of building an IPv6 tunnel/router at work (because RMITs Nortel routers won’t do IPv6, cutting us off from the native IPv6 on GrangeNet) so it might come in very handy.
Shame that there’s no mention of the 2.6 Linux kernel from what I could see in the sample chapter though. 🙁
Chris
Chris,
2.6 was a moving target before we began the book. (In fact, it may not have even been out at that time 🙂 There are also some who say that 2.6 is *still* a moving target!
There are a couple of gotchas to watch out about – only very recent 2.6.[11/12] (can’t remember which) will do stateful IPv6 firewall inspection being one of them. You also have the choice of using 2.6 kernel IPv6 or a USAGI patch-kit. Probably kernel will be the way to go in the medium- to long- term, but USAGI might get something working that otherwise wouldn’t in the short term.
Yup, I can understand all that!
I’ll be seeing if I can nag my boss into getting it this morning.. 🙂
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