Facepalm

Christmas are coming, and traditionally that means good time of the year to push people to buy things they don’t need. in Poland, companies generally don’t care what Customer wants. and don’t listed in the process of ignoring him/her. why are companies selling services choose not to listen? they don’t care? i was talking about this paradox during Cisco Connect, but in reality i was just repeating what everyone sane enough to think shouts left and right - we want customized offer, not something off the shelf. true value that people appreciate and will be loyal is created by listening to what customer wants - and giving to her/him what they really need (it’s actually pretty complex, but that’s basic intro to subject). ...

as i was visiting US for extended period of time, i decided to pull the trigger and in Apple Store bought myself new, shiny 17" MacBook Pro 2011. what’s ridiculous is that when you compare prices in Poland vs US, i’ve paid around 4,5k PLN (around 1000$) less than I’d pay in Poland - even though, Apple doesn’t import such high end configs to Poland. unbelievable, 1/3 of the cost of the whole machine! ...

IPsec code in OpenBSD is source of constant discussions. it seems there’s no reason to panic (and OpenBSD penetration is anyway minimal), but there’s a lot of interesting discussions and rumours around code itself and it’s origin. in particular i’d recommend to read this short piece (and this tweet) with code references. they demonstrate for the n-th time, that OpenBSD team, and in particular Theo is really building creative marketing and at the same time patch bugs silently without disclosing them. ...

…it’s already past (it’s quote from famous polish comedy - Boys don’t cry). you can get much better than that. you simply ‘restart whole internet using secret team of key bearers’: Cards you see are keys to global internetwork. There are seven of them and may be used to restart internet in the event of Earth-shattering cataclysm. Yes, we have to be prepared for anything. In the event of global outage, DNSSEC system would be damaged. You wouldn’t be able to check if URL really leads to the displayed label, and world would fall to chaos and anarchy. But then, Secret Group Of Key Bearers would appear and save the world. ...