Interested in working on an open standard for “secure Caller ID” for voice-over-IP (VoIP)? If so, the new “Secure Telephone Identity Revisited (STIR)” working group was just officially chartered within the IETF and the mailing list is open for all to s…
Aug 30
Third Time’s A Charm, Right? (For A Half-Marathon)
This Sunday I’ll be spending the middle of my 3-day Labor Day weekend running the Covered Bridges Half-Marathon in nearby Swanzey, NH. This will be my third run of the race and this year I have a very simple objective: Make it through mile 12 and still have energy! Both of the last two years I’ve done pretty well up until mile 12. In fact, last year I was running with a friend and we had a very constant 10-minute/mile pace all the way up through mile 10 and maybe even into mile 11. And then we got to the…
Aug 30
TDYR #032 – Kevin Spacey’s Powerful Speech On The Future Of TV, Film And Video
What is the future of TV? Of film? Of online video? Kevin Spacey recently gave a powerful speech on the future of TV, video and film at the Edinburgh International Television Festival. In this episode I speak about my thoughts on his commentary. Yo…
Aug 30
2 Asterisk Security Vulnerabilities Could Lead To Remote Crashes
The great folks on Digium’s security team published two security advisories this week that could lead to remote crashes of an Asterisk server. The first, AST-2013-004, Remote Crash From Late Arriving SIP ACK With SDP, has this description: A remotely exploitable crash vulnerability exists in the SIP channel driver if an ACK with SDP is […]
Aug 30
50% Off All O’Reilly Ebooks Through Sept 10, 2013
The good folks at O’Reilly let me know that you can now get 50% off the purchase of “Migrating Applications to IPv6” (and all other O’Reilly ebooks) through September 10, 2013, simply by using the discount code “B2S3″ when you are checking out. The sale page has more information: I would definitely encourage you to […]
Aug 30
Blog Chronicles A Couple’s Automation Of Their Home Using IPv6
Interested in how IPv6 could be used in home automation? Nathalie Trenaman and her soon-to-be-husband have started a blog at http://ipv6athome.blogspot.nl/ where they are documenting their work automating their home with IPv6: Nathalie, an IPv6 trainer, wrote back in April about why she was starting upon this path. It has been fun to read about Read more…
Aug 30
Fun Tool To Learn More About Git Branching And Merging
Want to learn more about how to work with branches in git? Confused about what “git rebase” does? By way of a post on Google+ I learned about this great tutorial site at: http://pcottle.github.io/learnGitBranching/
Aug 30
"It’s all content! It’s just story!… They want stories! They are dying for them." – Kevin Spacey’s Brilliant Speech
Do you want to understand the future of television? of online video? of the future of creating video content? Actor Kevin Spacey really nails it in this speech at the Edinburgh International Television Festival. If you have 45 minutes, the…
Aug 29
10 Years Of Skype – Massive Disruption… But Will Skype Remain Relevant?
Ten years ago today, on August 29, 2003, a group of entrepreneurs and developers from Denmark, Sweden and Estonia unleashed a small software program that would fundamentally and irrevocably disrupt telecommunications and just communications in general. Everything would change. Skype…
