It's the end of the week, so I suppose I should post something.

Speaking of, this past week was pretty hectic.  Lots of things happening at work, some with resolutions, some without.  Hopefully they'll get wrapped up next week.

I had to send my Canon PowerShot S60 in for servicing this morning, because all my zoomed-in photos started looking like this.  Hope it's covered under warranty, I have until August 8th.

Oh, yeah, Planet #RPI now has nifty hackergotchi's for everyone who's blog is represented.  Man, I sure do look white as a ghost.

In other news, I need some posters for my home office.  Does anyone know where to get some nice Star Trek TNG posters of the Enterprise-D?  I'm thinking of the one in Picard's ready room, but I haven't seen that anywhere online.

Debian released Sarge today.  Oh boy.  What does this mean for me?  It means my sources.list is now broken.

Seriously, why do Linux distros insist on having releases?  I've always thought that if you want new stuff just pick a branch (-STABLE, -CURRENT, testing, unstable, ${ARCH}, ~${ARCH}) and just run your distro's update tool.  Does anyone actually use stable stuff?  Sheesh, the kernel in Sarge alone is over ten months out of date.

New carpet kinda sucks.

So, this evening I checked out the pool in my development.  Pretty nice.  It looks like it's about 25 yards, too ...

But, instead of actually going into the pool, I sat in a lounge chair did some reading on OSPF, and learned that my previous posts ranting about OpenVPN and Quagga were actually not problems.  It's expected behavior for point-to-point OSPF connections to be convoluted (messed-up) and completely non-intuitive.  Also, OSPFv3 exhibits the expected behavior on point-to-point links, which is why my OSPFv3 stuff was working properly, excepting obvious Quagga bugs.

As one of my coworkers always says, it's nice working for a large company.  Today was the Time Warner Cable summer picnic, held at Celebration Station.  We had the park reserved for most of the day, and a ton of people ended up attending.  I had fun, and I believe most of the other people did as well.  However, it was a very hot day, and I should have put on sunscreen.  I wonder if I'll get any sleep tonight ...

Check this out.

Linksys box running OpenWRT, no iptables rules (default to ACCEPT), I'll ping through it:

PING laplace.prolixium.com (10.3.4.5) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from laplace.prolixium.com (10.3.4.5): icmp_seq=1 ttl=63 time=1.39 ms
64 bytes from laplace.prolixium.com (10.3.4.5): icmp_seq=2 ttl=63 time=1.53 ms

Now, I execute the following:

# iptables -A FORWARD -m state --state NEW -j LOG

And get this:

PING laplace.prolixium.com (10.3.4.5) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from laplace.prolixium.com (10.3.4.5): icmp_seq=1 ttl=63 time=15.0 ms
64 bytes from laplace.prolixium.com (10.3.4.5): icmp_seq=2 ttl=63 time=15.0 ms

ip_conntrack needs a rewrite.  Now I realize why IPv6 conntrack isn't out yet.  Lessie, 4x the bits ... mmm latency.

Fun week.  I was in training all week, but still did some real work in the evenings.  The intrusion prevention products I learned about are pretty nifty, too bad the whole thing is an IE-only interface based on Java.  Looks like the old-fashion CLI-interface is being used less and less.  I'm feeling old again ...

I finally got my desk.  It took 3-4 hours to build, mostly because I was trying to use my drill sparingly, since I was assembling it at 23:00.  I only screwed up the legs, and couldn't get two parts installed (so I left them out).  Oh, yeah, that, and more pics of my place are here.

I finally saw Episode III today.  It wasn't too bad, I enjoyed it.  Anakin's conversion to the dark side was a little weak, but still good.  I didn't see the Millennium Falcon, though.

I only watched two episodes of 24: Season II this week!  I really need to catch up.  I hear everything in CTU is Cisco-powered, now.  Now that's a scary thought.

I wonder what I'm going to do tomorrow ...

Routing daemons should add and remove routes, right?  Nice that Quagga's ospf6d (OSPFv3 daemon) doesn't feel like ever removing routes.  Good thing someone already filed a bug report for it.  Too bad I'll probably have to deal with unreachability issues until it gets fixed.

Oh, and today was fun.  I tried picking up my desk today that should "fit in any car that you can fold down the back seats in," according to the guy in the showroom.  The guys at the warehouse were laughing at me when they saw that I wanted to put these oversized desk pieces in my Camry.  Lamers.  Fit in any car my foot.