Worth Reading

I just finished reading two books of the author mentioned in the title of the post. Fermat’s Last Theorem Code Book highly recommend reading both of them during break from work :)

…but about everyone that hates it. i can highly recommend you two Scott Berkun essays: on substantive discussions without attacking people personally on choice - wise one - of president; it needs to be of course aligned to polish political model, but it has wider applicability :)

all interesting and worth reading. as usual during summer holidays i’ve tried to catch up with my reading queue - it’s been interesting two weeks: rework - great book for every company owner and destined for big things - previous version of the book - getting real can be read online managing humans - of Rands in Repose blog author; a lot of useful observations and tips for dealing with humans in IT world; you can however skip being geek - most of the content can be found either in ‘managing humans’ or in blog; Stephen Greys Operation Snakebite, Gregory Feifers The Great Gamble, Doug Beatties Task Force Helmand and finally Bing Wests No true Glory - bunch of good books about Iraq and Afghanistan; it’s unbelievable how people tend to make the same mistakes even when previous generations documented them very clearly; Metro 2033 and Metro 2034 - great reading, each of them took me just one day and night; Scott Berkuns Myths of Innovation - wonderful; Born standing Up - Steve Martins biography, tells compelling story about Steve himself, but also about world and America; Richard Wisemans 59 seconds - very practical book worth reading and applying to your daily routines - follow up can be found on You’re not so smart blog; well. now it is time to get back to OSPF and EIGRP. it seems i failed last CCDE exam :) ...

for some time Jim Gettys on his blog is writing a lot about problems caused by buffers, queues and other congestion avoidance mechanisms. you should really read about them. especially, if you’re in this group that believes big buffers solve all of the problems, and dropping traffic is absolute evil. nowadays it should be treated as absolutely normal thing - in most of the real life cases. on the upcoming, sixth PLNOG we may be able to tackle this problem (if there will be space in agenda), and have a shot at myths and legends related to network QoS. and yes, agenda will be out there soon, we’re just closing down last preparations. ...

it was a rule some time ago, right now its rare luxury - to have time to sit down with book that’s not about networking and spend time reading it from start to finish. i got back to most of Stanislaw Lem books, Anthony Beevor monography of both Berlin and Stalingrad battles. i’m still in front of Norman Davies ‘Uprising ‘44’ (i’m ashamed to admit, but no, I haven’t read it yet). also, i can recommend “www.1939.com.pl”, “www.1944.waw.pl”, “Mayor”, “Steel Curtain”, “Caucasian Epicenter”. i also had great time re-reading again “On the Beach”. ...

very interesting article, that led to writing this even more interesting article, describing how computer viruses compare to human.

thanks to Mirosław Kwaśniak, who in his very own time managed to find a way to generate PDF with polish letters - i was able to publish PDF that renders properly. thank you!

for all of those that are starting to make first steps with VoIP, or believe know everything - i’d like to highly recommend my fathers book that was just published via BTC publishing house. it covers both H.323 and SIP protocols, along with all auxiliary topics - like integration, and signaling over middleboxes like packet filters and stateful firewalls: Telefonia VoIP. Multimedialne sieci IP, Marek Bromirski, ISBN: 83-60233-07-1

i just launched new project - BGP Blackholing PL. i’d like to invite therefore everyone that: is interested in network security is interested in service provider edge security is interested in internet security wants to help actively defend against DoS/DDoS attacks and own network infrastructure wants to learn more about how BGP can be used in internet security …to join over at http://networkers.pl/bgp-blackholing.

finally, i found some time to update the site. children are really time consuming ;) on the other side, i was anyway able to do some things recently. i’ll do some announcements after Cisco Forum 2005. and yes, i’m changing my job ;)