The great folks at the Digium / Asterisk Security Team have issued two new security advisories that folks running Asterisk should pay attention to. They are: AST-2013-006: Buffer Overflow When Receiving Odd Length 16 bit SMS Message – If you have Asterisk set up to receive SMS messages, it seems that a 16-bit SMS message […]
Dec 16
A Trio Of IPv6 Posts From Mark Townsley Worth Reading
Interested in understanding more about what IPv6 is all about? What to know the benefits of “IPv6-centric” networks? Mark Townsley is a Cisco Fellow and someone very well-known to many of us in the IPv6 community through his writing, videos, and strong advocacy for making the move to IPv6. Recently he’s been writing on Cisco’s Read more…
Dec 16
FIR #735 – 12/23/13 – For Immediate Release
Inside PR, Thought Leadership and Higher Education all debuting on FIR Podcast Network; Jill Rowley interview is up; Neville interviewed on AMP Up Your Social Media; Quick News: WhatsApp has 400 million users, New York Times outlines native advertising…
Dec 16
FIR #734 – 12/16/13 – For Immediate Release
Three interview and three book reviews coming; FIR Presents Thought Leadership with Mitchell and Michael debuting; FIR website to relaunch; Quick News: national libraries digitizing books, Internet of Things about to explode, bots account for most web …
Dec 12
Awesomeness! Jetpack 2.7 Lets WordPress Users Auto-Post Content To Google+
Now here is an awesome gift for the holidays! Any self-hosted WordPress users who use the JetPack plugin can now automatically publicize their posts out to a Google+ account… including to a Google+ page. This is all courtesy of the…
Dec 12
Video: An introduction to curling by David Murdoch
The folks at World Curling TV published this good “into to curling” tutorial from Scotland’s David Murdoch that explains the basics of curling:
Would you like to see the sport of curling brought to southwestern NH? If so, please
Dec 12
First Geographic NewgTLD, .RUHR, Now Delegated (Featured Blog)
Each week ICANN has been delegating more new generic top-level domains (newgTLDs) and it’s been somewhat entertaining to watch the list of delegated strings to see what new TLDs will enter the domain name space starting sometime in early 2014 when they…
Dec 10
Watch Olympic Curling Qualification LIVE This Week (Dec 10-15)
Want to see amazing Olympic-level curling live over the Internet? The World Curling Federation is streaming the Olympic Qualification Event live via YouTube. The schedule is online and runs from today, December 10, through Sunday, December 15, 2013. I saw part of the first Korea vs. Japan game today and it was …
Dec 10
India’s Dept of Telecommunications for Tamil Nadu Making Plans for Transition To IPv6
We were very pleased to see a report out of The Hindu that the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu is making a concerted effort to plan for the migration to IPv6. From the article: The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has started compiling an inventory of all computer networks used Read more…
