Redhatter (VK4MSL)

Hi all… I was doing my usual random browsing of the various forums, when I came across this thread.

Go to http://www.treasury.gov.au/documents/976/HTML/docshell.asp?URL=tax_cuts.htm and have a close look at the page.

Looks fine eh?

Try clicking on the link for the calculator they mention.

Get anywhere? I didn’t think so… here’s why:

<p>The Treasury has prepared a simple indicative
<a xhref="http://172.16.11.147/contentitem.asp?NavId=007&ContentID=976" mce_href="http://172.16.11.147/contentitem.asp?NavId=007&ContentID=976">calculator</a>

Uhh huh… yep… this government doesn’t understand RFC 1918. Most people here know that 172.16.0.0/16 isn’t accessible to anyone publically, and the network admins looking after the government infrastructure should know better. I’d suggest Bonzai and his government may wish to learn a little about TCP/IP, and/or consult with someone who does (not necessarily those who claim to). 🙂

Update: It seems the URL has been fixed now… Still… it was amusing while it lasted.

Saw this on the Atomic MPC forums.

I thought it was a rather appropriate comeback. 😉 Not to mention artistic.

Exerpt from thread below.

Sturmgeist: What im saying is half the WTB threads are shit, that if the person making the thread could get off thier arse and be bothered to look for themselves they could find.

msolok: perhaps limit WTB threads somehow im not exactly sure but I’ll try think of a way it’ll never be implemented though so I may not even bother. Well, technically they ARE getting off their arses and looking. I think it’s bridge time for you.

Sturmgeist: You wanna build it for me?

msolok:

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Many of you, who follow the Internet Engineering Task Force‘s Request For Comment listings, would be aware that, almost every year, they put out a joke RFC as a bit of April Fools humour.

Examples of this include…

• RFC1149 IP over Carrier Pidgeon, which actually got implemented by a Linux User Group in Norway.
• RFC2324 Hyper-Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol

Discussion has erupted on the Atomic MPC forums about RFC2549: IP over Avian Carriers with QoS and other quirky methods for transmitting IP datagrams, such as EmuNet (a high-speed bulk land protocol), KangNet and CTP (Casowary Transport Protocol, for sensitive data). Ohh… And WomTun, for tunneling past those irritating barbed-wire and electrified firewalls. 😉