Neville speaking at CIPR Wikipedia-and-PR panel; Quick News: Digital Ireland Forum coming up, Gnip offers full Twitter feed, Boeing outfitting planes for in-flight mobile calls, interactive quizzes coming to YouTube; Ragan promo; News That Fits: plagia…
Sep 21
Friday Humor(?): The Register – “How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love IPv6″
IPv6 as a topic for fiction? Seriously? As we continue our ongoing efforts to scour the Internet for the best IPv6 and DNSSEC resources to bring to you, every now and then we run across an article that just causes us to go… well… “hmmmmmmm”. Such is the case with this piece at The Register Read more…
Sep 20
Updated List of IPv6 Resources for Application Developers
Recently I noticed that my list of IPv6 resources for application developers had not been updated since the second version of Migrating Applications to IPv6 was published in June 2012. I’ve now gone ahead and updated the list to have all the links that I added to the second release of the book.
Now, granted, …
Sep 20
Github’s “Command Bar” Makes Site Navigation So Much Faster
Recently Github introduced a new “Command Bar” into the site that I simply have to comment on because I find it so useful. It’s sitting right up there at the top of the site looking like your garden-variety “search” box:
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Sep 20
Evernote Destroys The Old Skitch With New 2.0 "Update"
This morning brings a collective "What the ______?" moment to the world of many Mac OS X users as we try to absorb the impact of the new Skitch 2.0 released by Evernote. Perhaps the reaction is best summarized by…
Sep 19
ARIN Enters Phase 2 of IPv4 Countdown – Only 3 /8 Blocks Left
Today marked another milestone in the ongoing exhaustion of IPv4 addresses – the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) entered Phase 2 of its IPv4 Countdown Plan meaning that it has only 3 “/8″ blocks of IPv4 addresses left. In fact, the counter on ARIN’s Countdown page shows only 2.89 /8 blocks left. On a Read more…
Sep 18
How WebRTC Will Fundamentally Disrupt Telecom (And Change The Internet)
If we step back to before 1993, publishing and finding content on the Internet was a somewhat obscure, geeky thing that a very few people cared about and very few knew how to do. It involved gopher servers, ftp sites,…
Sep 17
FIR #669 – 09/17/12 – For Immediate Release
Twitter handle now @FIRpodcast; FIR Book Review coming; Dr. Pepper vs creationists on Facebook; James Bond trades Martini for Heineken; FCC chairman blows tweetchat; ‘kerfuffle’ the best word ever; Ragan promo; social media and diplomacy; Michael Netzl…
Sep 11
Tor (The Onion Router) Expands IPv6 Support in 0.2.4.1-alpha
Last week the Tor Project announced a new alpha release 0.2.4.1 that includes as one of its major features expanded support for IPv6. From the release notes: Bridge authorities now accept IPv6 bridge addresses and include them in network status documents. Implements ticket 5534. Clients who set “ClientUseIPv6 1″ may connect to entry nodes over Read more…
Sep 11
Can You Add 1 Line of HTML To Your Site To Help Measure DNSSEC Usage?
Can you please help out with efforts to measure the number of DNSSEC-validating DNS resolvers out there? The folks at Verisign Labs are conducting some research into trying to understand what level of DNSSEC-validating resolvers are out on the open Internet. This is critical to understand as the availability of DNSSEC-validating resolvers is a key Read more…
