There’s a good discussion going on right now (September 2014) in the VoiceOps mailing list about how you can mitigate SIP threats by configuring the policies and settings on your session border controller (SBC). It started out with a detailed question from Robert Nystrom asking about how to configure an Acme Packet SBC in the […]
Sep 03
TDYR #171 – The Dark Side Of Being A Prolific Writer
There is a dark side to being a prolific writer or prolific “content creator”… and that is that if you do NOT create content, you start to get a bit twitchy… in this episode I talk about that feeling of having your head exploding with ideas…
Sep 03
The Live Video Streaming Nightmare: What Do You Do When YouTube Won’t Start? (And Lessons Learned)
What do you do if you go to start live video streaming of an event – and the streaming service you use won’t start??? How do let people waiting to watch know? How do you fall back to another service?…
Sep 02
Watch the 2014 Internet Governance Forum (#IGF2014) Live All This Week from Istanbul (Featured Blog)
The Ninth Annual Internet Governance Forum (IGF) Meeting is taking place all this week, September 2-5, 2014, in Istanbul, Turkey and live video streams are available for all the sessions… I watched the opening session live stream today from my home o…
Sep 02
Learn IPv6 Basics in VMware #vBrownBag Webinar On Sept 3
Interested in learning more about “IPv6 for IPv4 Brains”? By way of a tweet we learned that Jeff Carrell will be the guest on VMware’s “#vBrownBag” webinar/podcast on this Wednesday, September 3, 2014, at 19:30 US Central Time (which I calculate to be 00:30 UTC on Thursday, Sept 4, if I do the math correctly). In another Read more…
Sep 02
DNSSEC Deployment Maps Updated Today (2 Sep 2014) With Latest New GTLDs
As part of our ongoing publishing of DNSSEC deployment maps showing visually the DNSSEC status of country-code top-level domains (ccTLDs), we also publish a comma-separated value (CSV) file that contains the DNSSEC status of all the generic top-level domains (gTLDs), including all the “new gTLDs” that have been published as part of ICANN’s program. We […]
Sep 02
Lifehacker: Disabling IPv6 Will NOT Speed Up Your Internet Connection
IPv6 is not exactly a topic we would normally expect to see on the hugely popular Lifehacker website, but there it was on Friday in a story by Patrick Allan, “Why Disabling IPv6 Won’t Speed Up Your Internet Connection“. In the article, Patrick references an earlier article on How-To Geek that aims to dispel the Read more…
Sep 02
Can You Please Help The Ottawa Linux Symposium?
If you have ever used the Linux operating system, could you please help out the Ottawa Linux Symposium (OLS)? For many years OLS has been one of the key events that has helped bring together people from all across the Linux community, and …
Sep 02
50% Off All O’Reilly Ebooks Through Sept 9, 2014
Want to buy “Migrating Applications to IPv6” at 50% off? (in ebook form) Or any of 8,000 other ebooks and videos? The folks at O’Reilly are having a “Back to (Tech) School Sale” that is in effect until 5:00pm U.S. Pacific Daylight Time on September 9, 2014. All you need to do is use the […]
Sep 01
FIR #771 – 9/1/14 – For Immediate Release
Shel’s solo today; Quick News: Google ends Authorship, LinkedIn pages as company websites, Ditto scans for brands in shared photos, organic search beats social media for driving traffic, Facebook lets user search old posts, ALSA tries to trademark Ice …
