The Pædantic Programmer

I think I just accidentally the whole Seattle EDM scene

Posted on October 27, 2015 by C.J. Collier

It was unintentional, I promise.

PS, what are you doing the night before Samhain this year? Feel like giving me and my bike a ride to Bellingham?

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Some statistics from the router at the cabin

Posted on October 26, 2015 by C.J. Collier

sip0 is a GRE tunnel between the router and the colo box in Seattle, the payload of which is encapsulated as ipsec traffic before being transmitted over the Ubiquity equipment to the switch that the CenturyLink DSL modem attaches to. I don’t get centurylink easter eggs in my search results when I use this interface.

eth9 is the local gigabit transceiver. Attached directly to a SIP phone which bridges to a gigabit switch, on which the Ubiquity equipment participates.

lo is the local loopback interface, of course. Good old 127/8

usb1 is the 100Mbit USB NIC to which the WRT54G with ssid ‘colliertech.org’ is attached. The vast majority of the traffic originates on this interface.

cjac@wanjet1:~$ uptime
 09:11:18 up 32 days, 18:33,  6 users,  load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.05
cjac@wanjet1:~$ sudo ifconfig
[sudo] password for cjac: 
eth9      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:26:b9:e3:9b:47  
          inet addr:10.0.0.7  Bcast:0.0.0.0  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::226:b9ff:fee3:9b47/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:176060020 errors:4 dropped:12 overruns:0 frame:2
          TX packets:131573705 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:216753073131 (201.8 GiB)  TX bytes:30777442696 (28.6 GiB)
          Interrupt:20 Memory:f5400000-f5420000 

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:65536  Metric:1
          RX packets:3423 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:3423 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:392714 (383.5 KiB)  TX bytes:392714 (383.5 KiB)

sip0      Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 64-40-6A-02-30-30-3A-30-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00  
          inet addr:100.64.107.2  P-t-P:100.64.107.1  Mask:255.255.255.252
          inet6 addr: fe80::200:5efe:6440:6a02/64 Scope:Link
          inet6 addr: 2607:ff08:f5:1338::6440:6b02/126 Scope:Global
          UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST  MTU:1414  Metric:1
          RX packets:468792 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:297314 errors:30556 dropped:5 overruns:0 carrier:30549
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:512744498 (488.9 MiB)  TX bytes:21652345 (20.6 MiB)

usb1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 40:3c:fc:01:35:a5  
          inet addr:172.16.67.1  Bcast:0.0.0.0  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::423c:fcff:fe01:35a5/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:131960908 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:175522396 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:28447118558 (26.4 GiB)  TX bytes:216131320364 (201.2 GiB)

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Personal Identity Verification

Posted on October 14, 2015 by C.J. Collier

The following is a true and correct representation of Ariahna R.Tidrington as of 2015-10-14

Gender: Female
Height: 5′ 7.75”
Eye color: Brown
Weight: 160lbs
Date of Birth: 1996/11/30

Signature: ______________________________

State of Washington

County of Martin Luther King Jr.

I certify that I know that Ariahna R. Tidrington is the person who appeared before me, and said person acknowledged that she signed this instrument and acknowledged it to be her free and voluntary act for the uses and purposes mentioned in the instrument.

Dated: ____________________________

(Signature)_____________________________

Title:______________________________

My appointment expires: _____________________

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Microsoft ACS announcement

Posted on September 18, 2015 by C.J. Collier

So it seems that Microsoft has developed an embedded device OS distribution called ACS and that this OS is based on the Linux kernel.

http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/tag/azure-cloud-switch/

That’s kind of neat. They’ve been consuming Linux for quite some time. It’s nice to see that they’re producing some, too. Thank you for being productive members of this community, Microsoft!

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Back on the island.

Posted on September 9, 2015 by C.J. Collier

I spent a couple of weeks straight in the city. This is the first time I’ve done this since I’ve started working with Scott and the crew at RP. It was an overwhelming period of my life. Lots of social dynamics were fluid in a way that they have not been before. I had recently had my bicycle stolen and my 36th birthday. I invited people who I love to our space on Orcas and think that they were only there out of a sense of social obligation. I spent a good deal of time thinking about my influence and impact on the world. I spent time contemplating how I’ve never lived on my own and have never been ultimately responsible for my own well being. I have always relied on others to provide the comfort that would be best coming from myself. Self received a lot of coverage in this phase of my life. Perahps to the point that I might also consider myself to maybe be the most self-centered person I know. Maybe now that Leo has left us in its wake, we should get on with the regularly scheduled program.

And so. Planning. I’m looking to get a studio where I can work on island. I’m planning on moving the rack to this studio and maybe keeping it in a sound dampening, HVAC-enabled section of the space. A workstation with a dock ready for my presence or return. That sort of thing. Maybe I should put up a sign that says professional services, and another sign that says “no vacancy” so that they know that I’m already working for someone else. :-)

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Someone once told me I was a hacker…

Posted on September 8, 2015 by C.J. Collier

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Cop glasses

Posted on September 7, 2015 by C.J. Collier

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False Positive

Posted on September 6, 2015 by C.J. Collier

Since a bit before my birthday this year, I have been uncertain where I left my notary seal. I have been trying to stay positive about the situation, but I must admit that I spent an unhealthy amount of time obsessing about its location and whether it has been used in my absence. The last time I remember having it was just prior to my birthday, when I was showing its location and combination to someone who had never seen it before. I have since found myself questioning motives and intentions of this person.

I feel relieved, after two weeks of fretting, to have discovered my seal untouched, where I thought I had left it, and in the same state it was in when last I exposed it to those I think I probably trust. Perhaps I can continue to trust these people with the contents of my REDACTED and the administrative keys to the kingdom. Or republic. Or whatever it’s hip to call this place these days.