Quotes from a Long Time Ago
I made some mistakes in my life, and said some dumb ass things. Especially when I was younger (14-ish) in an IRC channel full of somewhat immature network administrators. Here are some of the most amusing of the dumb things I have said (intentionally not spell checked):
<NickCatal> dgold: Dsl works via ATM, thats layer3
<NickCatal> it’s layer4 in the way that it uses POS instead of ATM standard..
<NickCatal> FDDI can only support up to, maby, T1 speed..
<NickCatal> t1 = 1464kbps..
<NickCatal> I always thought FDDI was frame relay..
<NickCatal> OC-192 over POIP is as dumb as you get it..
<NickCatal> if this business works out.. the first thing I am doing is having my engineers give me some way of making a layer 4 nap.. even if it’s pure bullshit.. and then I am presening it @ Nanog
<gavroche> DS3 IS NOT FIBER || <NickCatal> gavroche: of course it is..
<NickCatal> UUNet has the world’s worst designed network
<NickCatal> I go on the UUNet backbone, and I’m like.. where’s the core!?
<NickCatal> I think we can make money offering gig-e at the cost of a T1
<NickCatal> naa.. my job in the new company is to make ideas and provide a public face to the company.. a 14 year old selling enterprise hosting looks good on Leno
<NickCatal> Cogent and InterNAP can be mixed and merged.. Cogent didn’t fail. Cogent has almost no expenses. it costs next to nothing to be Cogent.. <NickCatal> they own their network.. they own their equipment.. they don’t pay for it.. there are no leased lines.. <NickCatal> they most likely don’t pay for transit..
<NickCatal> I am about to call my lawyer about this and file lawsuits against 95% of the #nanog room to find out who has taken advantage of my system
<NickCatal> …also with logs of everything said in #nanog I have over 50 cases of showing pornography to a minor..
* To:
* Subject: Legal Recourse
* From: "Nick Catalano" <>
* Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 19:07:46 -0600Recently my personal system has been attacked by someone from the IRC channel #nanog on EFNet. This along with multiple instances of showing/providing pornography to minors as well as defamation of character/slander as well as numerous other civil and criminal items have really plagued my past 3 months. I think it’s time to look into fighting back.
Other than to warn others of the pending danger of dealing with the immature people found within that channel, I would love to know what all legal recourse I have in this matter. I have a lawyer but I am not quite ready to sue.
I fully expect to get flamed by this, of course. Yet I also expect most of those who flame me to be from Nanog. I don’t care how you play the game, but if you try to play me you can burn in hell. Strong words from a person who isn’t going to take it anymore.
- Nick Catalano
n|Catalano Ventures :: The Next Generation is Coming Soon
Some of the most amusing parts of this are a) My computer was never “taken advantage of”, b) All of that “UUNet” stuff is based on traceroutes, c) That pornography stuff is just damn amusing, and d) The spelling just makes it that much better.
