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OMG. The ingenuity (and geek level) of achieving this with something that is essentially invisible to 99.99999% of the human race (even most network admins) and planning ahead to do this is... indescribable. (the AS holder is http://instituut.net/~job/ , to those uninitiated - I had to double check my comment) Sir, I take my many virtual hats off to you.
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Why did people downvote a pretty appropriate snark while not downvoting a question that took longer to ask than the google search would have taken?
I for one appreciated the question "what is BGP?" for the following reasons... 1. It allows me to understand that I am not the only one who doesn't understand the terminology involved, allowing the discussion to be more educational and inclusive. 2. Sometimes searching for terminology is ambiguous and without prior knowledge of the subject domain, can result in lack of confirmation as to whether the definition is the…
Better yet, as I see people do around here from time to time, go read a brief synopsis and then post a "For other people who didn't know what BGP was: BGP is ....". I'm not for creating a hostile stuck up community but rewarding pure laziness seems pointless to me.
That is amazing. Does anyone have similar examples of weird technological art?
That is amazing. Does anyone have similar examples of weird technological art?
(Editted to add See also https://web.archive.org/web/20130917012514/http://www.chipwo...)
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Why did people downvote a pretty appropriate snark while not downvoting a question that took longer to ask than the google search would have taken?
Trying to encourage kind behaviour and inclusiveness?
That is amazing. Does anyone have similar examples of weird technological art?
Or is it because I'm behind a corporate firewall....
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I am amazed/fascinated by this! I would love to hear more for all the non-experts here about how the BGP Nyancat came to be :)
The starting point is a BMP file of the Nyan cat which is read into a simple two dimensional array by a small python script. The script looks at the current time and maps that to a column of pixels in the BMP. Each row of pixels in the BMP is represented by one IPv4 /24. If the pixel is "on" a BGP route announcement is generated, if the pixel is "off" the route is withdrawn. Each pixel in the BMP file represents 8 ho…