tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-154611482024-03-18T16:52:45.016-04:00Vin's WorldVincehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18136855206137771382noreply@blogger.comBlogger315125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15461148.post-55890181740857052572024-03-11T08:30:00.015-04:002024-03-11T08:30:00.132-04:00Airborne Networking Research - Emulation 101Modeling a fixed, wired network is a tricky endeavor. There are so many interactions at the network protocol level and the application data plane that make it far more stochastic than deterministic. Now, make the modeled network wireless and you've elevated the degree of difficulty. Modeling free space propagation loss, signal, noise and interference as well as antenna gain patterns and Vincehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18136855206137771382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15461148.post-17669601027337634032024-01-15T08:29:00.003-05:002024-01-15T08:30:53.528-05:00The Meaning of Life"The purpose of life is to discover your gift.
The work of life is to develop it.
The meaning of life is to give your gift away."
~ David ViscottVincehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18136855206137771382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15461148.post-24115354153951192582023-06-30T13:57:00.004-04:002023-06-30T14:08:41.044-04:00June 10K EverydayMy latest - and last planned challenge of this year - is done! I've been running at least the mileage of the month number every day of the month, so:
at least 1 mile every day in January,
at least 2 miles every day in February,
at least 3 miles every day in March,
at least 4 miles every day in April,
at least 5 miles every day in May,
and at least 6 miles every in June was so Vincehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18136855206137771382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15461148.post-11322882510205699722023-06-29T13:55:00.003-04:002023-06-29T13:55:53.575-04:00Metric Mile MathIt's too bad the conversion between miles and kilometers is just over 1.6 (closer to 1.609 kilometers / mile). At just under 1.6, closer to 1.592 (just 17 less meters) we'd have:
5 km / 1.592 miles/km ~ 3.14 miles
Or as we in the maths field like to say, π (pi) miles.
And then of course, my 10 km a day would be:
2 * 5 km = 10 km / 1.592 miles/km ~ 6.28 milesVincehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18136855206137771382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15461148.post-38536415431585583772023-06-16T12:47:00.002-04:002023-06-17T07:06:48.721-04:0010K .. every day .. for 30 days .. half way ..I just passed the half way of running 6.21371 miles (10K) for every day in June - the sixth month of the year; hence, 6(+) miles every day. I'm getting tired and it's a bit unexpected.
This year I've been plotting and running monthly challenges to augment my mile-a-day streak - continuous since mid-2016.
January: One More Lap
February: Calendar Club-lite
March: Goggins Challenge
Vincehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18136855206137771382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15461148.post-40097415869020396282023-05-24T16:02:00.002-04:002023-05-24T16:02:45.586-04:00Horseneck Half MarathonI had a great time at the 2023 Horseneck Half Marathon, beating my goal of 1:37:30 and finishing in the top 20!
My plan was to run a 7:27 pace to put me in at my time goal, but also knew that was somewhat conservative and I could push on the back end of the race. The first 2 miles out of the Horseneck parking lot were relatively flat as we got to Drift Rd. There were some soft rolling hillsVincehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18136855206137771382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15461148.post-67794564526862547282023-04-16T18:03:00.004-04:002023-04-16T21:08:35.867-04:00Rhode Run Ultra
Is it possible to go out tomorrow, and with my base fitness run 50 km with no specific training for that distance?
No ...
... because I just did it today!
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We started just after 10am at the Moosup Valley State Park Trail off Plainfield Pike in Sterling, CT. I say "we" because while all I did was run, my lovely wife Jen crewed for me which meant navigating andVincehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18136855206137771382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15461148.post-50600470346655646612023-04-08T11:09:00.007-04:002023-04-08T11:09:55.854-04:00The Adventures of Rich and Vince
Characters courtesy of SP StudioVincehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18136855206137771382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15461148.post-80953303883079896032023-03-21T15:32:00.002-04:002023-03-21T15:32:45.932-04:00Guarding Against Extremes
I'm reading "The Wizard and the Prophet" and see them as the extreme viewpoints of an answer; one campaigning for one side of the solution, the other one advocating the opposite; bouncing us back and forth between extremes, getting no closer to a workable answer.
The natural progression of technology seems to oscillate between two extremes, breaking new ground and then accounting for the Vincehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18136855206137771382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15461148.post-11235683435774282152023-03-05T15:47:00.031-05:002023-03-21T15:55:12.445-04:00Goggins Challenge - accepted and DONE!Run 12 of #GogginsChallenge DONE! pic.twitter.com/OqgaADwRgf— Vince (@VinsWorldcom) March 5, 2023
Run 11
Run 10
Run 9
Run 8
Run 7
Run 6
Run 5
Run 4
Run 3
Run 2
Run 1
Vincehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18136855206137771382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15461148.post-49319511508066336292023-02-16T08:56:00.002-05:002023-03-30T07:46:36.567-04:00February Calendar Club-liteI completed my February running goal of the "Calendar Club Challenge" for the first half of the month. For those that don't know, the "Calendar Club Challenge" is running a mile for the date of the month. So for example, February 1st is 1 mile, February 10th is 10 miles and February 14th - Valentines Day - half-way through the month, is 14 miles.
For reasons that will become clear later, I Vincehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18136855206137771382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15461148.post-37357246848869714202023-01-31T09:25:00.003-05:002023-01-31T18:11:12.024-05:00No More LapsJust completed the Nick Symmonds #OneMoreLap challenge!
Started mid-January after I realized I was already on pace with my normal daily road runs and finished today on the track with 31 laps!
Vincehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18136855206137771382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15461148.post-21695818409182444352023-01-15T12:16:00.000-05:002023-01-30T11:54:54.946-05:00On (Off) Track with One More LapAfter looking at my running for the first two weeks of January, I see I am on track - that is to say, mileage wise - with the Nick Symmonds #OneMoreLap challenge.
Of course, this is all on road for me, not actually the track, but I'll just keep adding 1 mile starting January 17th (to be 5 miles that day) and every fourth day thereafter to keep pace and complete the challenge.Vincehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18136855206137771382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15461148.post-46663433343530591142022-05-27T21:02:00.005-04:002023-01-30T11:45:54.449-05:00Misty
November 21, 2008 - May 27, 2022 .. Good Grrrl!Vincehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18136855206137771382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15461148.post-53923069795799676252021-03-29T15:12:00.005-04:002022-01-24T07:27:31.912-05:00Play on WorksWork is a contact between you and someone else guaranteeing your compliance in an unsatisfying activity for an agreed upon price.
Fun is an agreement with yourself or others to do something for which no monetary compensation is required to asuage dissatisfaction.
Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy everything else.Vincehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18136855206137771382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15461148.post-70237882492599547902020-09-13T20:00:00.011-04:002023-01-30T11:52:17.245-05:00Multi-day Marathon MayhemWith no rest days:
1 mile/day for 26 days = Started 6 July,
2 miles/day for 13 days
3 miles/day for 9 days
4 miles/day for 7 days
5 miles/day for 5 days
7 miles/day for 4 days
9 miles/day for 3 days
13 miles/day for 2 days
26.2 miles/day for 1 day = Ended 13 September!
Vincehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18136855206137771382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15461148.post-34707401845239338392019-03-16T17:36:00.001-04:002019-03-16T17:46:03.547-04:00Notepad++ Git Integration**I've been trying to get Git integration in Notepad++ with a plugin for some time now. I came up with a project based on someone else's attempt at converting an SVN plugin to Git. It works, but certainly not ideal. It basically provides buttons to call command lines of Git for Windows, which I always have installed.
I'd heard of Tortoise Git, but didn't want another version of Git installed - Vincehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18136855206137771382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15461148.post-8589215592517413622017-12-24T14:28:00.001-05:002017-12-24T14:28:42.520-05:00The Adventures of Rich and Vince
Characters courtesy of SP StudioVincehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18136855206137771382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15461148.post-83383960634045291142017-08-20T11:27:00.001-04:002017-08-20T11:27:50.489-04:00Net-SNMP on Windows with SSLRecently, I found my older Windows version (5.2.2) of the Net-SNMP tools didn't have support for AES privacy protocol for SNMPv3 when I tried to use it. I grabbed the latest pre-compiled Windows binaries (5.6.1.1) from the site and found they didn't have AES support either. After some reading, I found I needed OpenSSL DLLs and old ones at that - version 0.98. This wasn't going to work; I was Vincehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18136855206137771382noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15461148.post-83820766159640255182017-06-26T10:39:00.002-04:002017-06-28T09:43:54.858-04:00Run MAD - one month to go ...According to the following tweet, on or about 20 July, 2016, I began my run-a-mile-everyday thing with the hashtag #RunMAD - as in - Run Mile-a-Day.
365 ∑ (run)^1 t=1#RunMAD— Vince (@VinsWorldcom) July 21, 2016
The goal was simple, run at least 1 mile every day for at least 1 year. Some rules:
Run at least 1 contiguous non-stop mile every day
A day is between 12:00:00a and 11:59:59pVincehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18136855206137771382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15461148.post-53518677709777287582017-05-12T22:32:00.002-04:002017-05-12T22:32:33.193-04:00Digital Disruption in Service ProvidersEvery industry can be digitally disrupted - even those that claim to provide the very digital transformation enterprises so desperately seek.
The true benefit of software-defined networking is not separation of control plane and data plane - that doesn't work at scale. It's not easier centralized control and the end of command line with more fancy acronyms like YANG, XML-RPC and REST APIs. TheVincehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18136855206137771382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15461148.post-43312174133505966202017-05-10T09:34:00.000-04:002017-05-10T09:34:23.958-04:00DNS PII UH-OHA seemingly normal DNS packet:
ETH: dst:98:76:54:32:10:ab src:ab:cd:ef:12:34:56 type:0x0800
IPv4: version:4 hlen:5 tos:0x00 length:190 id:44821
IPv4: flags:0x00 offset:0 ttl:128 protocol:0x11 checksum:0xb060
IPv4: src:8.8.8.8 dst:192.168.10.1
UDP: src:53 dst:13245 length:170 checksum:0x8756
DNS: id:21817 qr:1 opcode:0 flags:0x18 rcode:0
DNS: qdCount:1 anCount:4
DNS: nsCount:0Vincehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18136855206137771382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15461148.post-11501556902973042012017-05-04T22:24:00.000-04:002017-05-04T22:24:28.958-04:00Net::SSH2 Upgrade Access to CiscoI upgraded my Strawberry Perl to 5.24 and my GNS3 test lab for SSH access via CRAPPS suddenly didn't work.
Knowing the Perl version changed, I checked and the Net::SSH2 version changed (0.58 to 0.63). Troubleshooting was pretty easy - just a quick Perl script to open a connection and die on failure with error:
#!perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Net::SSH2;
my $ssh2 = Net::SSH2->new();
$Vincehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18136855206137771382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15461148.post-63378596242812752692016-09-13T11:47:00.000-04:002016-09-13T11:47:19.637-04:00Technology ThemesIn my career of technology consulting, projects over the years have been driven by some high level themes regardless of:
the technology (i.e., network design, management, security, etc.),
the domain (i.e., local, wide-area, data center, etc.),
or the customer (i.e., retail, healthcare, banking, etc.)
To summarize roughly by decade:
Decade
Theme
1980s
Technology Evangelism
1990s
Vincehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18136855206137771382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15461148.post-1150205005996354512016-09-07T12:02:00.000-04:002016-09-07T12:02:34.260-04:00IT LeadershipA CEO has a decision - who to lead IT now that the current CIO is leaving due to many failed projects and a general perception that the company's use of technology is falling behind.
The background: the company has business and department leaders housed in mahogany offices on the top floor of it's fancy headquarters. They've identified that collaboration is the issue - too many decisions are Vincehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18136855206137771382noreply@blogger.com0