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Further westcoast ramblings

wnagele — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 07:29:25 +0000

Currently i’m writing to you from San Diego Sheraton. But, first things first.

As we used our last day in SFC to see Golden Gate bridge we took the chance to visit the museum of computer history in Mountain View which i can really recommend. We had a very nice tour there and have seen a lot including the first Google production server. As we already were in Mountain View we surely had to catch up at the Google HQ.

Afterwards we drove to Santa Cruz, as our plan (if you can call it one) was to use California #1 to go south. In Santa Cruz we had dinner and went for some bowling. We also enjoyed the Boardwalk named gaming lot – where we left some bucks playing air hockey.

As we wanted to use our travelling time as much as possible we used to make some more kilometers before catching a motel. So it came that we ended up in somewhere of nowhere and couldn’t get a motel for about 1 and a half car hours. The drive along the pacific coast on California #1 however was awesome. We had no full moon but growing moon i guess and so you could see a lot of the moon light flickering in the ocean. Finally we dropped at a motel in San Simeon at the other end of nowhere. It was a nice but short stay as we catched up in the morning and took our trip down to LA. In LA we stayed at a hotel i’ve already been once earlier this year. In the evening we grabbed our dinner and had some nice beers near Hollywood Blvd in LA.

Next day our choice fell on Disneyland in Anaheim, as we didn’t get up early in the morning we came there at about 4pm and so only had 4 hours left to enjoy the stay. I can recommend the space mountain ride. Most of the other stuff is probably only funny if you get there with children. After we had our dinner at IHOP (International house of pancakes) we stayed at a motel near Newport Beach (yes, as in O.C. California) which was – well, cheap.

Today we had a trip to newport beach and afterwards dropped by at San Diego. Here we’re staying at the Sheraton which i’ve also been earlier this year (at this time named Radisson). We weren’t able to get our trip to San Diego Zoo as BJ catched a cold (which i had earlier last week), so we took the rest of this day off and i enjoyed my stay at the jacuzzi.

Our plans for the rest of the trip are not quite sure, maybe we drop to San Diego Zoo tomorrow or we go directly to Las Vegas. We’ll see. As i had some time today i finally made it, to upload the photos.

RAM as exhibit?!

wnagele — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 17:13:06 +0000

A good example of the missing comprehension in technology legal courts have (at least in the U.S. – but i bet it’s the same in Europe), can be found in this judgment by U.S. magistrate judge Jacqueline Chooljian. She really points out that Torrentspy couldn’t attest that it’s impossible to store the content of RAM and therefor provide it as exhibit.

She’s right – it’s not impossible. Though it’s just stupid.

Flights booked – ready to rumble

wnagele — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 12:35:21 +0000

Today we’ve finally booked our flights to San Diego. I’ve booked my flight via Chicago earlier this morning and when Teemu found the time to give me his missing details (birthdate, etc.) the flight was booked out. Isn’t it kinda fascinating that Murphy can get his fingers off – at least one time? Whatever, we’ve had to change to some Delta and United flights which are operated by Air France. As Teemu already had bad experiences with them on long distance flights we’re heading forward to that. However we didn’t have any other choice because the refund limitations of NSF (Fly America Act) force us to book american airlines (even if they are operated by an european airline then ).

The currently planned flight schedule is as follows:

Vienna VIE (10.03.2007 10:10 ) – Paris CDG (10.03.2007 12:15)
Paris CDG (10.03.2007 13:15) – Los Angeles LAX (10.03.2007 15:50)
Los Angeles LAX (10.03.2007 17:55) – San Diego SAN (10.03.2007 18:43)

Los Angeles (17.03.2007 16:30) – Paris CDG (18.03.2007 11:05)
Paris CDG (18.03.2007 12:40) – Vienna VIE (18.03.2007 14:40)

We’ve choosen to take this chance to do a little holiday down in california and therefore will stay the days after the workshop in Los Angeles.

Attending DCC1 in San Diego

wnagele — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 20:14:17 +0000

First things first.

In January 2007 CAIDA was one of the institutes behind the Day in the life of the internet. This project was one of the first steps in trying to gather more research data for the future development of internet technologies. I as an operator of ORSN node B have provided them with PCAP data of this node.

Now CAIDA came up with the idea to make a workshop for future contribution of data. They have already invested a lot of time in the DatCat database therefore. The focus of this workshop is to get data providers and researchers together to find a way to provide enough metadata to make the data useful for researchers while still keeping it that simple so data providers will use it. Workshop attendees are also being introduced in DatCat and it’s background.

I’m looking forward to join this workshop in March …

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