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Tag Archives: Internet
Next is Now
Just stumbled on this video created by Rogers. One of a few good quotes: “10 years ago it took 72 hours to download Godfather… – Today it takes 10 minutes – It still takes 3 hours to watch”
Some infrastructure links for Canada 3.0
Tomorrow the Canada 3.0 conference starts. Since I am attending the infrastructure track I thought it might be useful to collect a bunch of links relating to the Internet as infrastructure. http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/why-internet-infrastructure-need-be-fields-study http://hakpaksak.wordpress.com/2008/09/22/the-etymology-of-infrastructure-and-the-infrastructure-of-the-internet/ http://lafayetteprofiber.com/FactCheck/OpenSystems.html http://news.cnet.com/Fixing-our-fraying-Internet-infrastructure/2010-1034_3-6212819.html http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/200904/msg00168.html http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/200904/msg00175.html http://cis471.blogspot.com/2009/04/why-is-connectivty-in-stockholm-so-much.html http://www.linuxjournal.com/xstatic/suitwatch/2006/suitwatch19.html http://publius.cc/2008/05/16/doc-searls-framing-the-net … Continue reading
IPv6
For the first time in almost month I had a bit of free time for experimentation today so I decided it was time I set up my home network to use IPv6. I’ve tried to keep up on the development … Continue reading
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Amazon EC2 from a network administration perspective
There has been lots of discussion and buzz around the Amazon Web Services (AWS) lately. I posted a few links about this last week. Most of the articles that I have read on AWS speak of it from a high … Continue reading
Tagged Amazon, AWS, EC2, Internet
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A new way to look at networking
I finally got around to watching A new way to look at networking yesterday. This is a talk given by Van Jacobson at Google in 2006 (yes, it has been on my todo list for a long time).This is definitely … Continue reading
Tagged Computer Science, Internet, Networking
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Cloud computing
It’s pretty hard to not notice the buzz around ‘cloud computing’. In large part this is due to the new services being offered by Amazon. Who would have thought that a book seller could become the infrastructure for a new … Continue reading
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End-to-end in standards and software
Two things. Both relate to Microsoft but that is just by coincidence. The first Apparently IE8 will allow the HTML author to specify the name and version number of the browser that the page was designed for. For example, the … Continue reading
The XMPP snowball is speeding up
More and more of the tech community seems to be talking about XMPP and how it fits into the future of the Internet. One example: XMPP (a.k.a. Jabber) is the future for cloud services
Tagged Internet, Web
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CBC’s Spark and Search Engine
CBC has been doing a fantastic job of making most of its programming available as podcasts. More recently, CBC has also upped their Internet cool factor by adding two excellent new shows: Spark and Search Engine. Both of these shows … Continue reading
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Social network privacy settings
From How to Lose Your Job on Your Own Time: Personal disclosure is the norm on social networking sites. But the Pew study included an unexpected finding: Teenagers have the most sophisticated understanding of privacy controls on these sites, and … Continue reading
Tagged Internet, Privacy, Society
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