Interesting to see that the White House is sponsoring its first ever code sprint… from the announcement back on April 2nd:
Today we’re announcing the first ever White House Code Sprint. This is …
Apr 12
White House Summer Jobs Code Sprint Deadline is Monday, April 16, 2012
Apr 12
Comcast Enables IPv6 For Xfinity and Xfinity TV
Great news out of Comcast this week related to IPv6 – they have now made two of their major content portals available over IPv6! From their comcast6.net page on April 10, 2012: The newest part today moves two of our major portal sites to IPv6, including Xfinity andXfinityTV. This critical move was made possible via close cooperation Read more…
Apr 12
Video/Slides: IPv6 Autoconfiguration Tutorial
Want to understand more about how IPv6 addresses are configured using SLAAC and DHCPv6? (Want to understand what “SLAAC” is?) If so, Fred Bovy recently posted a video of a presentation he did about IPv6 autoconfiguration. In the hour-long video, he explains how autoconfiguration works, provides some examples in Linux and then later gets into Read more…
Apr 12
My Report into For Immediate Release (FIR) Podcast #646
In this week’s For Immediate Release episode #646, my report covered: Privacy and Facebook applications: the Wall Street Journal article and the TechCrunch response that fears are overhyped Hotels can potentially add content (like ads) to your web pages on…
Apr 11
FCC Publishes DNSSEC Recommendations for ISPs
Are you are network operator or Internet service provider (ISP) seeking to understand what you need to do to implement DNSSEC within your network? Are you looking for guidance to help you understand how to proceed? If so, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) just published a set of “DNSSEC Implementation Practices for ISPs” through Read more…
Apr 11
FCC DNSSEC Implementation Guidlines for ISPs
In March 2012, the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) published a set of “DNSSEC Implementation Practices for ISPs” through one of the working groups of the FCC’s Communications Security, Reliability and Interoperability Council (CSRIC). The full report can be downloaded in PDF at: http://transition.fcc.gov/bureaus/pshs/advisory/csric3/CSRIC-III-WG5-Final-Report.pdf The 29-page document provides the following: A brief overview of Read more…
Apr 11
Network World Tests Six IPv6-Enabled Application Delivery Controllers (load balancers)
Back in February, Scott Hogg at Network World put together a “Clear Choice Test” on “IPv6-Enabled Application Delivery Controllers (ADCs)” that explored the idea of using an ADC (what we used to think of typically as a “server load balancer”) to IPv6-enable content that exists on IPv4-only web servers. As the intro to the series Read more…
Apr 11
Twitter Can Help You Escape Kidnappers (in South Africa)
Fascinating story at Ars Techica: "Twitter helps free kidnapped South African from trunk of his car." A man in South Africa was stuffed into the trunk of his own car when thieves stole it, but they neglected to take his…
Apr 10
Video: Short Documentary on 2012 Curling Nationals in Philadelphia
A gent named Jeff Albertini produced this great short video about the 2012 US National Curling Championships in Philadelphia:
Philly Curling Nationals 2012 Documentary Short from Jeff Albertini on Vimeo.
Nicely done!
Apr 10
Would You Buy a ".blog" Domain Name?
If you could get a domain name ending in ".blog" for your blog site, would you buy one? Over on Domain Incite, Kevin Murphy reports on the first applicant to publicly state that they are applying for ".blog" as part…
