Fwd2: Mark Burgess

School in Philadelphia...) It was a middle school... and their
sculpture made by students were quite good! I bought a 'hand' since
it formed a good hand-shake... and it can be used as 'key' hangers...
on our wall ... will send you pictures...

Hope you keep UP writing/sketching/reading/ and possibly coding... if
you get someone good to show you ropes...

I personally think writing is for recording one's own 'position'
contextually... so one wouldn't forget where and why one's own choice
were made... and if any lesson might be learned from IT... I
discovered this book by Mr. Ruan... ( one of your god parents...
remember?...) as it turns OUT, Mrs. Ruan's parents had greater stories
( Mr. Ruan was an orphan... his father was body-guard for founder of
KMT...and his mother went looking for her husband body that went
missing... both of them were never found...what a 'personal' story...
so Mrs. Ruan's father had a law degree from Japan and was responsible
for managing a prisoners transfer from one city to another around Dec.
1948... He deviced a plan to have 3 of prisoners as a smallest unit
then 5 such units submitted to another 'leader-ship' class... a
pyramid scheme, so to speal. And they walked on their own ( without
any outsider guard) from 1 city to another city by the name of 张家口 ...
and all of them reported BACK to prison in the new prison... imagine
_that_... some say it was a miracle... I am not sure what sort of
'incentive' the top hat deviced to land this 'success'...what do you
think?...)

Send my regards to your bros, and thank them for taking on your legal
guardianship...

love



Advogato-style distributed trust matrices is something I've thought
about implementing in a more abstract PKI-level manner, but I think
existing technologies such as PGP/GPG are better thought-out than I
could manage, short of getting a CS degree and pouring a year or two
of my life into it. The bigger issue with such trust frameworks is
getting them put into use - computer users are generally too stupid to
put any effort into learning the underlying principle, and just click
OK when asked about a Certificate Issue or what-have you.

The only DDoS issues I've had in the past few years are the ubiquitous
SSH brute-force bots. Fail2ban does a good job of watching log files
for auth failures, and fires off an iptables rule to blacklist them
for long enough that the botnet goes away. We have a 100mbit pipe from
Hurricane Electric in Fremont, I end up wasting most of the bandwidth
seeding linux ISO torrents and the like. Nobody seems to like hitting
our Apache instances abusively.... no love, I tell you! What sort of
bandwidth levels are you getting complaints about? You should be able
to handle it with a good host.

I got a free Chromebook from Google, but I traded it away for this
Transformer because I already have a 13" dell laptop - don't need one
with a Samsung logo on it. The tablet-touch form factor is what
appeals to me more so than the OS - Android 3.x is lacking a lot of
spit 'n polish, but that's what happens when you rush code out the
door.



> I wanted to write to Mark Burgess, ask him to take a look at Raph
> Levien's design of virgule and trust matrix and if it is possible to
> extend/modularize raph's C code a distributed app with engines for
> parsing xml blogs/posts/trusts in different knowledge domain( or
> natural languages). Check out his article "Knowledge managerment and
> promises" as the design behind CFEngine's policy based automaton. But
> before that, I hope to read in depth of raph's virgule code with Mark
> Burgess's C Tutorial
>
> Then there is always network security issue.
> Raph's original intension to write virgule and trust matrix so that an
> edge/alien node can establish its legitimate spot once it won over
> majority or an authoritive node approval. I felt a tinge of revenge
> whenever I tried to create other account like 'hjclub' for copying
> Chinese web content that I am interested in advogatoers always succeed
> in killing it. Now, Steven Rainwater has to close new acct creation
> because advogato site is under some sort of DDoS attack. The average
> lifespan of my own server is ~2-3years before my ISP either gave me an
> expensive bill for excessive net traffic or a new IP when my site
> attracted DDoS. I'd like to own my allthingsgo.net in world wide west
> for the long haul. I need to know how to handle DDoS attacks.
>
> Glad to hear Peter is having fun with unicycle. I showed your email to
> Gregoriy, he can't help laughing at it.
>
> I have Asus android tablet ( Transformer as they call it?) but I
> haven't found any advantage of it over my Asus ubuntu notebook. I was
> surprised to find out Netflix supports Google's chromebook for its
> video streaming. Also once I spent $400 for lifetime membership on
> quetia.com the online library started by an attorney in New England
> who sold that business to run another startup PeoplePad. see this
> link
> http://limiao.net/3028/comment-page-1#comment-50880
> for the list of books on my questia bookshelf. Hate to say that they
> don't have a client for Android yet. Believe it or not, I can read my
> questia books on iPod Touch.
>
> had to go... keep in touch.
>
> susan
>
> On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 4:28 PM, Eugene E. Kashpureff
>> Looks interesting. I'll have to give that a thumb-through.
>>
>> I've been grabbing most of my reading materials as eBooks lately. I
>> traded my free Google Chromebook for an Android tablet(an Asus).
>> Electrons are oh-so-much lighter than dead trees.
>>
>> Pete tells me he's been falling on his face with the unicycle at cheer
>> practice regularly. I'm looking forward to seeing him do it in full
>> Bobcat uniform.
>>
>>
>>> Hello Eugene,
>>>
>>> I'm ordering Mark Burgess book 'Principles of network /system
>>> administration' to be shipping to AR. Mark wrote CFEngine. His
>>> classic C programming book is online.
>>>
>>> Here's his blog entry 'Forgetting to think'.
>>> http://www.iu.hio.no/~mark/blog_know.html
>>>
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_open_source_configuration_management_software
>>>
>>> Peter, did you get my last shipment of a book ?
>>>
>>> Best
>>>
>>> susan
>>> --
>>> BACKOFF! I'm PopeOnARope
>>>
>>
>
>
>
> --
> BACKOFF! I'm PopeOnARope
>

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