Monkeyblah.com is run by Peter 'X-G' C O Johansson as a fun project and a weblog, as a way of expression, distribution of creative works, and as a design experiment, and was first established in spring 2004 as a successor to his earlier weblog, Not Quite Elite.
Monday
Monday, April 19 2004 at 13:04
Rant
Easter break is over. Now there is only the doom and gloom of homework, lectures, and lunch subs with corn in them for the next six weeks or so. Joy. Oh well, guess that's what I signed up for.
Nothing else interesting to say, except I will be making some changes to the comment system; I realized 255 characters is really too little. For now there's a Javascript that warns you at least, so you don't get cut off comments.
Update (8:49 am):
I've changed the comment system. Maximum length for comments is now 4096 characters.
Nothing else interesting? A vulnerability was found in the TCP protocol that would allow one to take down BGP using routers on the net causing massive route flapping which basically means the end of the Internet as we know it.
IETF released a quick fix to the TCP protocol as an Internet Draft.
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-tcpm-tcpsecure-00.txt
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And no, 2.2.C won't break TCP. I discussed it with Daniel Hartmeier of OpenBSD fame and he said it's valid behaviour and it won't cause half-open zombie connections because the ACKs that were sent before the RST will also be arriving after the RST -- et voila, it won't break TCP implementations.
So, yeah, something did happen. Something major even :)
Oh, btw, the "Add Comment" box is too small for the actual comment textbox inside it. Or at least it leaks out of the box with Firefox.