Just when I thought the i disease couldn't get any worse, I see this:

how to do iSSU in junos? Can anybody provide me the steps.

I'm going to cry.

We all know that Google has been offering IPv6 services for awhile, through their Google over IPv6 (GoIPv6) program.  GoIPv6 gives you AAAA RRs for DNS queries only if the query comes from whitelisted address space, or bouncing queries off a cache in whitelisted address space.  In my mind, this is the stupidest thing ever, for a couple reasons.

One: Using other people's DNS servers breaks GSLB (a type of DNS load-balancing that attempts to use DNS to direct clients to the closest server or DC).  Most folks who use GoIPv6 use whitelisted DNS caches that are not geographically close.  This means they may get directed to a server that's close to the DNS server, but possibly far away from the client.  Another server might actually be closer.

Two: This does nothing to help fix broken networks that cause the presence of both A and AAAA RRs to result in connectivity failure.  Lots of networks out there have RAs enabled where there really isn't IPv6 connectivity, use broken HTTP proxy servers that don't handle IPv6 connections, or host broken DNS servers that blackhole AAAA queries (don't return NXDOMAIN).  The best way to get these fixed is to bite the bullet and put A and AAAA records on globally-significant sites!  If we rely on whitelisting, administrators of broken networks may never know they're broken, and nothing will get fixed.  If nobody can get to Google in the office, the network folks will fix it quickly.

Three: It doesn't help IPv6 adoption.

That being said, as of a few weeks ago there were rumors floating around the IPv6 operations mailing list that Google was going to be ditching the whitelisting and just going full-blown dual-stack with A/AAAAs.  Not sure when this will happen, but the news was encouraging.

However, I just saw this article today that seems to indicate that other big players are going to deploy IPv6 using a similar silly whitelisting method!

Content providers say they need a DNS Whitelist for IPv6 because the Internet has so many broken IPv6 links due to problematic default behavior and incompatibilities in operating systems, home gateways and customer premises equipment.

Stupid!

I have a feeling that temporary means a few years, unfortunately.  Is this progress?

I've been running Debian GNU/Linux on my Asus Eee PC 900 for awhile, now.  One of the features that I like (and most other people hate) is the tap to click feature.  The left & right buttons on the Eee PC take a little effort to click, so I try to avoid them if at all possible.

I upgraded to Linux 2.6.32 (customized build of 2.6.32-3-686) today, and the touchpad was apparently detected as a touchpad, instead of a generic PS/2 mouse.  This is nice, but it slowed down the default tracking speed, and removed the tap to click default:

(II) config/udev: Adding input device "ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad" (/dev/input/event9)
(II) LoadModule: "synaptics"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/synaptics_drv.so
(II) Module synaptics: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
        compiled for 1.7.3.902, module version = 1.2.1
        Module class: X.Org XInput Driver
        ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 7.0
(II) Synaptics touchpad driver version 1.2.1
(**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/event9"
(II) "ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad": x-axis range 8 - 1144
(II) "ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad": y-axis range 8 - 760
(II) "ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad": device does not report pressure, will use touch data.
(II) "ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad": finger width range 0 - 0
(II) "ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad": buttons: left right middle double triple
(--) "ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad": touchpad found
(**) "ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad": always reports core events
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device ""ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad"" (type: TOUCHPAD)
(**) "ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad": (accel) keeping acceleration scheme 1
(**) "ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad": (accel) acceleration profile 0
(--) "ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad": touchpad found
(II) config/udev: Adding input device "ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad" (/dev/input/mouse0)
(**) "ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad": always reports core events
(**) "ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad": Device: "/dev/input/mouse0"

The fix was easy, I just added the following to /etc/modprobe.d/psmouse.conf:

options psmouse proto=imps

This tells the psmouse module to view the touchpad as a mouse, not a touchpad.  This is mostly a hack, and I'd prefer to be able to change the tap to click feature directly, without dumbing down the device to a generic mouse.  However, it does work (for now).

I need to stop using Facebook.  Or, I just need to find different friends.  I'm sick of seeing stupid things like this in my news feed:

Jane Doe became a fan of Intelligent, classy, well-educated women who say "F*ck" a lot.

What is the point?  The whole "fan" thing has gotten out of control.  I'm wondering when I'm going to see people becoming a fan of "breathing" or something equally silly.  Also, doesn't that statement above contradict itself just a little bit?

I guess it depends who we all have as role models.

Most of the parts for my upgrade should arrive tomorrow.  The motherboard and CPU are scheduled to ship tomorrow, though, so I'll have to wait until next weekend before I can put everything together.

I suspect I'll migrate data to the SSD and give it a spin in my old system for a few days, though.

I'm not too worried about receiving a fake processor, since I didn't order the CPU or motherboard from Newegg.  They were both cheaper elsewhere.

The community I live in is "gated," meaning for the majority of the day you either have to call someone, punch in a code, or use an RF transmitter to open a set of gates to gain access to the community.  While exiting, you just have to get close to the gate, and it starts to open.

Someone must have bumped the antenna for the call box, recently, since you almost have to be on top of it (and quite close to the gate) to trigger it to open when entering.  For some reason, I keep hearing "danger, space doors are closed" in my head whenever I get close to the gates as they start to open:

Maybe I've been watching way too much Star Trek:

Although, I don't back out of the community, usually:

How often do you ask someone if they minded if you did something, and they say "sure" without thinking about it?

About half the time I swim at the pool, I end up sharing a lane with someone else.  Before I get in, I ask them "do you mind if I share the lane with you?"  The typical response is "sure."  This is incorrect, of course, and "no" or "no problem" are more accurate responses.  I've gotten used to it, and don't think twice about it anymore.

Today I asked the same question to one of the swimmers while entering the pool, and he said sure while nodding.  A second later he corrected himself, and responded with "no, I don't mind if you share the lane with me."

Pretty weird.  I don't remember the last time I've heard someone correct themselves over this type of error.

I hate it.  I suspect I will feel like crap for the next few mornings while my circadian rhythm adapts to the darkness and the loss of an hour.

Most things (like the MRTG graph shown above) seem to tolerate the addition or deletion of an hour.  Here's a list of things that didn't:

• Cisco 7960G VoIP phone - I guess I have to upgrade the firmware on it.
• My watch
• Random clock in my den
• Wall clock in the living room
• Digital timers
• Thermostat
• Atomic alarm clock - ???

Although it wouldn't help the above, maybe NTP version 5 could carry GMT offset via.. IP geolocation, or something?  Wait, no, that's a bad idea.

In other news, I've almost gotten over my cold.  Or was it allergies?  I can never tell.