I had to go all the way home.

I got up for work as usual did all the necessary stuff. Got in my car drove 10 miles down I 95, realized I didn;'t have my cell phone. Before I knw it, I turned around went back home to get it. Got to work late sat back and realized that how much that little device controls my life.
Cell phones are so important to some people, ( yeah yeah me) that their day can't go right without it. You feel like whats going to happen if I can't make that call or get that call. It's become such a staple it's hard to imagine what we would do without it.

 

I95? Whats your 20?

 

i do that kind of stuff all the time. im lucky enough to notice before i get too far away usually though. technology in general controls our lives. and the scary part about it is the devices that control the internet, which ultimately controls everything else we do that depends on technology are so fragile. Meaning, one wrong command could possibly bring the whole internet to its knees.

basically a router from whatever vendorA, triggered a bug in a router from some other vendorB and almost crashed the internet.

heres a little article on slashdot.

Barlaam writes "A bug by router vendor A (omitting a range check from a critical field in the configuration interface) tickled a bug from router vendor B (dropping BGP sessions when processing some ASPATH attributes with length very close to 256), causing a ripple effect that caused widespread global routing instability last week. The flaw lay dormant until one of vendor A's systems was deployed in an autonomous system whose ASN, modulo 256, was greater than 250. At that point, the Internet was one typo away from disaster. Other router vendors, who were not affected by the bug, happily propagated the trigger message to every vulnerable system on the planet in about 30 seconds. Few people appreciate how fragile and unsecured the Internet's trust-based critical infrastructure really is — this is just the latest example."

heres the larger article.

http://www.renesys.com/blog/2009/02/longer-is-not-better.shtml

 

Maryland

 

I'm so conditioned to those blasted 10 codes I was able to answer without even thinking about. A lot of people who will read this would have never knew what you were talking about

 

You realize if that would have happened no one from the MG forum would have been able to help them. They'd have to go to best buys Geek Squad roflmao

 

roflmao i think BGP catastrophes are a bit over geek squads heads.



I can imagine one of their VW beetles rolling up and power cycling the internet.

 

I'm glad I'm not so dependent on cells yet.

 

I don't have one. I have a gps cyclocomputer en route for my mt. bike, I have several computers, so I am not technologically impaired, but I feel that at many times, I ain't available for calls. On purpose. :-D

 

I know what your talking about some people would not even know what a CB is.

 

What you describe with your cell is exactly the reason why I stopped wearing a watch some years ago. It controlled me. At work I need to follow time to a greater extent, but after that I'm done.

Now I carry my cell phone always and it tells me the time too roflmao

 

A what what?

 

I first learned those codes from a TV program called Highway Patrol with Broderick Crawford.

http://www.highwaypatroltv.com/photos.shtml

Then later with CB
10/4

 

I don't have a cell phone. I have technology, and a new toy ordered: http://www.pricepoint.com/detail/14...-Rate/Garmin-Edge-305-GPS_Heart-Rate-Unit.htm Found one for under $200! Works of GPS instead of bike mounted hardware. (very nice for off road use.)

I am still cell pone free!

 

I got my cell when I was diagnosed with emphysema (needed help to breath at times) and drove a crap car, lived in the Santa Cruz Mts.
Even if I were not sick at the time it could have been very uncomfortable sitting in a disabled car alone.
I do have to say, we had AAA towing and always came within mins of calling.

 

I admit, cell phones can be awesome tools! But most of it is just inane chatter that slows down what others are trying to do.

 

That is true

 

I cant live without my cell phone/internet/music player.. it does almost everything but take out the trash :-D

I feel so lost if I ever forget mine