We Don’t Negotiate With Terrorists or Threenagers Now don’t get me wrong, we really can’t complain with George, he doesn’t have many tantrums at all. I’d like to lay claim to that being down to me, but in reality it’s Karen and her DNA. Today however was one of those, “How can I be so heartless?” moments, as today there was no negotiation, it really was “Our way or our way”.
5Ghz Here We Come A few months ago I changed my home router from a Mikrotik RB2011 router to a Linksys WRT1900ACSv2 - Not a particularly cheap router, it’s still £ even now. I changed because I wanted 5Ghz wireless as the 2.4Ghz around here is massively congested, plus I wanted some faster speeds for copying photos to my NAS. I’ve got Gigabit wired to most rooms, but I just can’t be bothered to find a cable most of the time to hook up to - I don’t usually have one long enough at home, work tends to stay at work these days.
The Problem When you connect to an internet peering exchange, the IP addresses you’re given for your interfaces will most likely have been used by someone else prior to you, that has left the exchange. This means, because we’re not all good at housekeeping, that you’ll end up with ISPs trying to open up BGP sessions with your routers and if you’re not firewalling them out then you’ll end up with a lot of messages about BGP Opens being received from unconfigured neighbours.
I’ve been busy the last couple of months putting things in place to get Ilumia Images up and running as its own business and as part of that I needed some printing done for business cards and some other items. I spent quite a bit of time on Google looking at options etc. and send off for sample print packs from 4 different printers Printed.com Solopress.com digitalprinting.co.uk JAK Inc Delivery The first three of those all arrived within 3 days and all presented very nicely.
If you’ve gone to edit your site and suddenly found that your chosen IDE won’t connect to upload any more via FTPS (FTP using TLS encryption) and your web host runs cPanel, then chances are they’re running v56 and your IDE is written in Java. I hit this issue with another website late last week, where the DH params had already been re-generated to 2048 bit, but that change removed. Your IDE probably just says it can’t connect, that’s what JetBrains WebStorm and PhpStorm do although the logs did give more information: