“[…]the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars…”
-Jack Kerouac
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IPv4 and MAC Address Mapping
Brief Overview As we have all learned from our CCNA studies, unicast traffic flows over destination-based routes. If a sender transmits to a receiver within the same VLAN, traffic is frame-forwarded to the receiver. If the sender does not have the receiver’s corresponding MAC address, an ARP request that contains the packet encapsulated in a…
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Midnight Rendezvous with Telix: Musings of a BBS Junkie
It was one school night in Spring 1992–hell, it could have been any given evening from 1992 to 1999. I lived, breathed, ate and shat anything DOS and BBS-related. I was obsessed with pirating as much commercial software as my humble 120MB hard drive and massive floppy, Zip disk and tape libraries could store. It’s…
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Butterfly in the Shadows
So beautiful, wings with heavenly patchwork fluttering to find the light,but alas the light is Satan’s insidious silver ring’s reflection of the boiling sun,Red and yellow torment of God’s omnipotence,of the torment of a helpless little larvaeinching its way to enlightenment, looking for Mama Mothso sad, enshrouded its thickening cocoon, should be safe and it…
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Wayfarer 14
If I were to name one childhood thing that my parents got for me that I cherish the most, it would be my unforgettable cross-country trip with American Trails West in the summer of ’89. Back before America’s veritable stick was shoved as far up its legally paranoid ass as far as the colonoscope can…
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Sweet & Sour Cabbage Soup
Warm up this winter with a healthy bowl of sweet and savory cabbage soup with a ton of vitamin C!