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The modern day window tax on the internet
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In 1696, King William III of England imposed a tax on glass. Essentially, houses with more than ten windows paid a levy to the government, but the tax is now remembered as unfair and very avoidable by bricking up the windows in your home. Today there is a new tax on glass – [...]
2010 will be a bad year for ipv4
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We are now at the end of January, but IPv4, the Internet’s core addressing protocol still has a nasty hangover, and all signs are pointing to 2010 being a bad year for the protocol.
Since January 1st, a few key milestones have passed, indicating how urgent the IPv4 rundown problem has become. Firms that rely on [...]
IPv6 Track at NANOG
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Greetings from Philadelphia! I am presenting as part of the IPv6 at NANOG46 (click here for info of how to watch) at 9:30PM UK time today, or download the IPv6 for Enterprises presentation here, or see information about the other speakers here..
The messages are clear and simple. Working now to get ready for the IPv6 [...]
18 months? And google are nimble?
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Google recently announced that they’d done a front-to-back implementation of IPv6, using engineers’ spare time, in 18 months. Cue well over 100 comments on slashdot claiming that this goes to show how hard implementing any sort of v6 service is at all, given it takes a company known for hiring smart people as long as [...]
Preventing Mailman annoyances
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Inspired by TheHodge’s “After you install Wordpress” article, I made a note of the things I did to configure a Mailman mailing list, after creating it. Much of this is to make the look-and-feel replicate how I used to run Majordomo lists.
Firstly, I like the Bounce handling and web-interface to Mailman, so this is why [...]
2011 – An addressing odyssey. Preparing enterprise for IPv6.
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Yesterday I gave a talk to Sheffield GeekUp on preparing enterprises for IPv6 [download]. The premise of the talk was :
IPv4 addresses are scarse, and at current consumption rates, the IANA pool of free v4 addresses will be gone at the start of 2011.
This starts a “Post IPv4 world” where the IPv4 internet continues to [...]
Youtube pushed off the air
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In between browsing Facebook and Youtube, the UK economy generates $1,930,000,000 of output a year. Thats $550,000 every two and a half hours. Well if today had been a work day, there’d have been one two and a half hour period where that was much higher. That’s because in a pique of [...]
Life after email
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The death of email has already been predicted on approximately 1,258,926 blogs, so I barely need to recount the chant that IM is already replacing regular conversation, social networking manages infrequent messaging between your peers and introduces you to new business partners, and that web forums are how the population now find out information. Email [...]
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