OLSR Experiences

The olsr-story - open-mesg describes a rather scary deployment experience with OLSR/ RFC3626, along with a number of hacks which improve the performance.

We were actively involved in the evolution of olsrd from olsr.org. Actually we were the people that made it functional. RFC3626 - the initial IETF-draft of olsr - does not work in real life. If you want to find out what it's developers intended it to be and how it should work, I would like to suggest reading the RFC3626 after you have seen the presentation of Andreas T.ennesen on the OLSR.ORG website about RFC3626.

We heavily modified olsr over the time. We disabled almost everything that the inital designers of olsr thought was smart and replaced it with the LQ/ETX-Mechanism and Fish-Eye Mechanism tp update topology information.

Mark Dominus vs. ELISP

Mark Dominus (author of Higher Order Perl, the best Perl book I have seen) had some problems with Emacs configuration earlier this year. His first problem appears to have been going to IRC for help. Before reading the manual or checking the FAQ.

I'm disappointed.

Unicode and Japanese e-government

...Unicode 5.0 provides the characters required by the Japanese e-government.

Tagline of the Unicode Home Page.

That's an endorsement if I ever heard one.