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Flawed Routers Flood University of Wisconsin Internet Time Server (2003) (pages.cs.wisc.edu)
Avicebron 30 minutes ago [-]
> the root cause is actually a serious flaw in the design of hundreds of thousands of one vendor's low-cost Internet products targeted for residential use.

I feel the vindication in my bones.

YesThatTom2 26 minutes ago [-]
The talk he gave at Usenix LISA was one of the best ever!

(LISA is now SRECon)

rkagerer 2 hours ago [-]
It struck me how much more useful information the graphs and diagrams here provide over their flashier counterparts you commonly see today.

The old-fashioned aesthetic almost feels like a cue what I'm looking at won't be slop.

Levitating 41 minutes ago [-]
Some of these charts are made using rrdtool:

https://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/

rrdtool is still used widely today by projects like Munin, LibreNMS and Collectd.

walrus01 2 hours ago [-]
Don't worry, I'm sure we can teach a slop generator how to emulate this style. LLMs already know how to use rrttool and mrtg! Coming soon to an Internet near you, faux-historical slop writeups.
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