Author: Chris Johnson
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There is a reason…
The problem that people have been attempting to solve, for years, is the lack of space in the IPv4 addresses space. There are currently more devices attached to the Internet or “the network” than there are addresses in the IPv4 space. This requires address overlap. The smallest section of a network is the “subnet”. A…
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Cheering For the Loss
I did not want Jimmy Carter to win. Neither did my parents. When he was elected, we were willing to cheer for him to succeed. He didn’t. As much as Biden and Clinton messed up this country, no single President comes close to Jimmy. Most of the mess in the Middle East can be laid…
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Happy Thanksgiving!
This is a special day for me. It has been years since we gathered as a family at my parents’ home for a Thanksgiving feast, but that is a memory I hold dear. No, this comes from something my mentor gave me. When he was in collage, he had many good friends. Friends he kept…
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Tax the Rich! Tax Corporations!
Much of the noise in the MSM and social media (X) is leftist, attempting to call more than half the country “stupid”. “How could you vote for a convicted felon?” ask many. Well, we’ve just seen that case evaporate. It should never have been brought. And as Justice Thomas said, …the Attorney General purported to…
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Tuesday Tunes
Sexual assault is a real thing. It happens, way too often. It is likely underreported. The statistics on sexual assault can’t be trusted due to this. In high school, we had to do a mock trial. Because I knew the District Attorney for the area, I spoke to him and asked if he could provide…
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Are Those Level 4 Plates? (I wish, Nerd Bable)
Sunday was supposed to be the day I migrated a couple of machines. I have a new physical device which is described as a Level 2 switch with SFP+ ports. The idea is to replace my small mixed routers, 2 SFP+ ports plus some RJ45 ports with either a L2 SFP+ only switch or an…
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Why Is It So Slow? Or How Many Bottlenecks?
My mentor, Mike, use to say “There is always a bottleneck.” What he meant by this, was that for any system, there will be a place which limits the throughput. If you can find, and eliminate, that bottleneck, then you can improve the performance of the system. Which will then slam into the next bottleneck.…
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Big Mac Index
One of the most difficult tasks economists have is to judge the cost of things. If I’m paying $3/dozen for eggs and you are paying $1/dozen, do your eggs or mine cost more? This gets even more complex when you start to consider currency differences. When I’m discussing past prices, I like to convert the…
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Unburdened by what has been
Conversations with friends can be difficult. One of my friends is burdened by the inequity of the world. Because he is conservative and a strong supporter of the Second Amendment, his issues with inequity are putting him in serious mental anguish. What Has Been You struck out, westward, when you found a place to your…
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Something SIGnificant
Monday, I had an opportunity to visit the SIG Academy/SIG Experience Center. In the late 70s, I had a chance to visit NYC for the first time. That feeling of awe, looking up at the skyscrapers. Trying hard not to have pidgin droppings fall into our open mouths. That is sort of how I felt…