Posts Tagged ‘Turkey

My system has a daily job to collect and aggregate the IP Blocks distributed by the five registrars into a single database, and then provide high-level WHOIS information for this data. If you want to try this yourself, the interface here.
On an extremely irregular basis, I aggregate the statistics from this data, and present it [...]

Happy Thanksgiving

In: Life

9 Oct 2006

Happy Thanksgiving
Originally uploaded by spierzchala.

To all the folks back home, Happy Thanksgiving!
May your turkey be moist, juicy, and, preferably, smoked.

Here are the IP Block and Address allocation by registrar, as well as the number of officially allocated IP Addresses in each country (with 65536 Hosts or more) as of September 22, 2005 00:30 UTC.
This data has been extracted from the GrabIP database

IP REGISTRAR BREAKDOWN

registry NUM_HOSTS NUM_BLOCKS
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arin [...]

Here are the IP Block and Address allocation by registrar, as well as the number of officially allocated IP Addresses in each country (with 65536 Hosts or more) as of August 29, 2005 00:30 UTC.
This data has been extracted from the GrabIP database

IP REGISTRAR BREAKDOWN

registry NUM_HOSTS NUM_BLOCKS
——– ———- ———-
arin [...]

Here are the IP Block and Address allocation by registrar, as well as the number of officially allocated IP Addresses in each country (with 65536 Hosts or more) as of August 17, 2005 00:30 UTC.
This data has been extracted from the GrabIP database

IP REGISTRAR BREAKDOWN

registry NUM_HOSTS NUM_BLOCK
——– ———- ———
arin [...]

George, this does not mean watching the shareholders heads spin, like in The Exorcist.
And acquisitions? George, your staff is not even comfortable walking across the street to get some BBQ at Armadillo Willy’s or a coffee at the Bridgepointe Starbuck’s, because they figure when they come back, a new name will be on the building [...]

Hmmm…looks like Siebel may be in even more trouble! Wow! Shock and amazement! [here]
Stockholders want to drive the value of this turkey up through buybacks, and a group of large shareholders has posted FOR SALE signs in front of the headquarters.
Psssst! Hey buddy! Want to buy a bloated, arrogant and poorly managed company in an [...]

I made the attempt. No one can fault me for that. However, I was defeated by the twisted, anarchic madness that is the ARIN database.
A step back: I was considering refining the GrabIP database to more accurately reflect the true countries where IPs are used.
APNIC, LACNIC and AFRINIC are all sanely managed. Countries and IP [...]


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