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Yesterday a car from Agadir, Morocco was parking in our street. What confused me, on the car plate next to the moroccian flag was the EU flag.
Did I miss something? Since when is Morocco part of the EU? Or do they have special plates for driving in the EU?

Today I installed IPv6 for the first time on the Windows XP of my girlfriends laptop.
I have to admit that it was easier than on my iBook, where all browsers prefer IPv4 over IPv6.

Here is an example output of “tracert6”

C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\arved>tracert6 www.kame.net
Routenverfolgung zu www.kame.net [2001:200:0:8002:203:47ff:fea5:3085]
von 2001:5c0:89f0:2:cd4a:75f6:28fa:e92b �ber eine maximale Anzahl von 30 Hops:
1        6 MSek     6 MSek     5 MSek  defgw6-3.arved.priv.at [2001:5c0:89f0:2::]
2        4 MSek     3 MSek     6 MSek  defgw6-1.arved.priv.at [2001:5c0:89f0::1]
3      459 MSek   469 MSek   476 MSek  2001:5c0:8fff:fffe::267a
4      549 MSek   552 MSek   459 MSek  ipv6.hexago.com [2001:5c0:0:2::18]
5      555 MSek   501 MSek     *     sl-bb1v6-nyc-t-23.sprintv6.net [3ffe:2900:2001:5::1]
6      532 MSek   545 MSek   664 MSek  sl-bb1v6-rly-t-1003.sprintv6.net [2001:440:1239:100a::2]
7      746 MSek   740 MSek   642 MSek  3ffe:2900:b:e::2
8      712 MSek   708 MSek   700 MSek  plt001ix06.IIJ.Net [2001:240:bb62:8000::4001]
9      731 MSek   831 MSek   741 MSek  otm6-bb1.IIJ.Net [2001:240:bb20:f001::2]
10      752 MSek   773 MSek   885 MSek  tky001ix06.IIJ.Net [2001:240:100:1::30]
11      760 MSek   775 MSek   685 MSek  hitachi1.otemachi.wide.ad.jp [2001:200:0:1800::9c4:2]
12      719 MSek   742 MSek   759 MSek  pc3.yagami.wide.ad.jp [2001:200:0:1c04::1000:2000]
13      774 MSek   820 MSek   731 MSek  gr2000.k2.wide.ad.jp [2001:200:0:4819::2000:1]
14      775 MSek   778 MSek   782 MSek  orange.kame.net [2001:200:0:8002:203:47ff:fea5:3085]

There are not many IT books i read front to back, usually i just use them as Reference Manuals, or read the interesting chapters.
I bought “Doraswamy/Harkins – IPSec”, which gives a very good Overview over the topic. The only aspect that missed out was the use of PKI with IPSec.
Unfortunately most books about IPSec are from around 2001, when VPN where the hot topic.
So I am now looking over a good overview over recent developments regarding PKI, X509v3, CMP etc.

Although I don’t really like Milka choclate, i like this poster.

What i noticed about advertisements in Austria is that a lot of spots try to tell the people how specially austrian the advertised product is, e.g. Kraft Food is an international food company, but they don’t protect all mountain pastures (I admit i looked up this word on dict.leo.org), they especially protect the _austrian_ mountain pastures.

I just noticed i haven’t written about this. I am going to quit my job at TU Vienna end of next month.
So we are currently looking for my successor. In case you want a boring bureaucratical 20h/week job, send me your application 🙂
You should have basic english knowledge, good TCP/IP, Ethernet and WLAN knowledge and you should not be afraid of Ciscos :-). It helps if you are familiar with common Operating Systems (like Linux, Solaris, Windows or Mac OS X) and if you are able to do some script language programming like Perl, Python or something else.
An air-conditioned office at TU Vienna, at Karlsplatz right in the center of Vienna is awaiting you. Your Desktop has Dualscreen and excellent Internet connection (100Mbps). You can install any OS you like on it, as long as it has Ethernet/TCP/IP support and a Serial Port.
(Wow, this sounds so attractive I am tempted to apply myself 🙂

I bought “IPv6 Network Administration” by dwmalone and Niall Richard Murphy. I have read the first 50 pages and so far the money was well spent. I am impressed, it doesn’t consist of overlong boring protocol descriptions and RFC printouts and is not yet outdated.