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Who Is Karl

If you are looking for a short bio then click here.

Karl - circa 1995So, I bet the first thing you want to know is what I look like. The photo on the left is nearly a decade old, but I like it. The vicissitudes of Internet politics, life at startups, and life in general have left me with a bit more gray around the edges.

Some people have said "Karl is a crock". And I’m here to say that they are right… sort of… Yes! That that is me over there to the lower right. I was understudy crocodile in a production of Peter Pan.Karl as a crocodile

It is true that I hold some strong opinions. This website is full of materials that articulate and elaborate on those opinions so I won’t go into a lot of detail here except to say that I firmly believe that modern governance - political and of the internet - is in serious trouble unless we abandon the corrosive concept of stakeholderism and return to the principles of constrained government and separation of powers, as articulated by so many of the great thinkers of the 18th century.

10/100-Base-T Cyclotron

Every day we here at CaveBear get letters saying “You may already be a winner”. Oops, wrong letters. Let’s start this over… Every day we here at CaveBear get letters say “What can you do to help? We are running 10/100-Base-T…” Whoa! Hold on right there. Can we help? You bet your bippy we can! Remember how the announcer on TV used to speak in hushed tones about the “atom smasher”?

Armor Piercing Packet

If you are like me, you find firewalls to be a nuisance and a bother — So the CaveBear invented the CaveBear Armor Piercing Packet, aka the CAPP. The CAPP is great for getting through those firewalls – no muss, no fuss. Just aim it at that bothersome firewall and launch. Like a hot knife through butter, it cuts through those barriers. And it leaves nothing but a little entry hole to mark its path.

Cavebear Catalog

Welcome to the new and revised Cavabear catalog!! If we have it, you don't need it! Ask yourself these simple questions: Is your network too slow? - Of course it is. Do you want to speed it up? - Of course you do. If you answered yes, and we already know that you did, then you have come to the right place! Networking has changed a lot over the years.

Cavebear Catalog - Legacy Products

It’s a blast from the past - same old products for your same old, and we mean old, network… Operators are standing by to take your order, but these orders must be placed using a rotary dial telephone and payment must be made using traveller’s cheques. In order to protect you from embarrassment, these products are shipped in reused Amazon Prime boxes. The CaveBear 10/100 BASE-T CYCLOTRON The CaveBear ISDN INTENSIFIER The CaveBear T-1 TESTAROSSA The CaveBear TURBO TERMINATOR Back to Cavebear Catalog

Cavebear Catalog - Privacy Statement

We participate in no so-called "private" privacy initiatives. Indeed we feel that leaving the protection of privacy to anything less than well enforced laws would be a farce. The CaveBear site takes no active steps to protect your privacy. We collect the standard logs of access to our systems. We never have used the access logs for anything but our own administrative uses - primarily monitoring our sites to see whether someone has tried (or succeeded) to penetrate our security.

Cavebear Catalog - Techno

Sure, you could go to Ars Technia or Gizmodo or Communications of the ACM. But, why? Don’t we give you enough? Haven’t we provided for you through all your years? Are you ungrateful? It’s a good thing mother, bless her soul, who worked her fingers to the bone to put food on the table, can’t see you now. GagaNet The RealMan’s LAN Initial Specification Back to Cavebear Catalog

Cavebear Catalog - Techno - GagaNet

PRESS RELEASE May 5, 1998: Las Vegas, Networld+Interop Today, the worlds greatest collection of networking professionals gathered and constructed the first trans-relativistic network. The NOC Team used hyper-fiber to create the first network not limited by the speed of light. David Steele, creator of new fiber, and rumored Nobel Prize candidate, said of the new material "Well, I figured that normal fiber is a simple ‘push’ technology. So I built a couple of fiber transceivers with the power leads reversed.