{"id":519,"date":"2014-04-07T08:59:59","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T12:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fazigu.org\/blog\/?p=519"},"modified":"2026-04-07T09:04:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T13:04:13","slug":"rabbit-hole-from-dns-to-hacker-wisdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fazigu.org\/blog\/2014\/04\/07\/rabbit-hole-from-dns-to-hacker-wisdom\/","title":{"rendered":"Rabbit-hole: From DNS To Hacker Wisdom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Waiting for a DNS change today, using &lt;tt&gt;dig&lt;\/tt&gt; to check the propagation, did a `man dig`, found mention of\u00a0Chaosnet and Hesiod classes,<\/p>\n<p>the latter\u00a0having been developed within the Athena Project, which also gave us the X Window System:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In 1984, <a title=\"Bob Scheifler\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bob_Scheifler\">Bob Scheifler<\/a> and <a title=\"Jim Gettys\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jim_Gettys\">Jim Gettys<\/a> set out the early principles of X:<sup id=\"cite_ref-xcoreext_2-0\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/X_Window_System#cite_note-xcoreext-2\">[2]<\/a><\/sup><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<blockquote><p><i>Do not add new functionality unless an implementor cannot complete a real application without it.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<blockquote><p><i>It is as important to decide what a system is not as to decide what it is. Do not serve all the world&#8217;s needs; rather, make the system <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Extensible\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Extensible\">extensible<\/a> so that additional needs can be met in an upwardly compatible fashion.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<blockquote><p><i>The only thing worse than generalizing from one example is generalizing from no examples at all.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<blockquote><p><i>If a problem is not completely understood, it is probably best to provide no solution at all.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<blockquote><p><i>If you can get 90 percent of the desired effect for 10 percent of the work, use the simpler solution.<\/i> (See also <a title=\"Worse is better\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Worse_is_better\">Worse is better<\/a>.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<blockquote><p><i>Isolate complexity as much as possible.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Wisdom for the aging.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waiting for a DNS change today, using &lt;tt&gt;dig&lt;\/tt&gt; to check the propagation, did a `man dig`, found mention of\u00a0Chaosnet and Hesiod classes, the latter\u00a0having been developed within the Athena Project, which also gave us the X Window System: In 1984, Bob Scheifler and Jim Gettys set out the early principles of X:[2] Do not add [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hacking","category-whimsy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fazigu.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fazigu.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fazigu.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fazigu.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fazigu.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fazigu.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":520,"href":"https:\/\/fazigu.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions\/520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fazigu.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fazigu.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fazigu.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}