What is wrong with this ?

[Bob Sneidar]

Reminds me of a recent situation I had with with network equipment. We couldn't get the new Mesh Wireless to work properly on our very large network. People were blaming the network, and suggesting we needed to isolate everything with routers and whatnot. I told them that is a lot like the farmer who bought a heifer, but when the time came to deliver he got a sow. Amazingly, the farmer did not demand the delivery of the heifer he paid for, but instead built a new pen for the sow! 

If there is something wrong, it may work to pen the problem in, but it isn't fixing the problem. Oh, btw for those who care, the problem with the mesh turned out to be really small arp caches. The arp entry for the gateway would get dropped after the cache filled up, so each mesh wireless would think it lost the connection to the internet, and began using another mesh to get there. 

Bob


On Mar 12, 2012, at 10:56 AM, Ken Corey wrote:

> On 12/03/2012 17:34, Klaus on-rev wrote:
>>    ## An unfortunately undocumented "feature":
>>     libUrlSetSSLVerification false
> 
> Uh...doesn't that turn off SSL certificate validation?  As in: "we don't really know if we're talking to the people we think we are"?
> 
> I once saw a beginner write a c program like this:
> 
> #include <stdio.h>
> main(){
> /*
>  int badcode; / broken comment
>  for(int i=......blah) {
>    blah(broken code;
>  }
> */
> }
> 
> She wondered why it didn't do anything.  When I told her to remove the "/* */" comment symbols, she replied "But then it doesn't compile."
> 
> Turning off SSL Certificate Validation sounds an awful lot like "it doesn't compile".
> 
> -Ken
> 
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