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Net Neutrality debate gets traction
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I cited a DoJ statement in a previous article that was destined to stagnate or kill all innovation on the web, by permitting ISPs to end the end-to-end nature of the internet.
I’ve been trying to draw the attention of some other technical people by talking about NN on mailing lists. Sadly some people have got [...]
Why Municipally Provided Wifi Must Never Be Allowed
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I have twice now had to defend an unpopular premise – that local governments should not provide free wifi to residents and visitors. A recent thread on the Open Rights Group discussion list almost got pretty out of hand between a few people who thought it was dangerous for the government to be providing [...]
News at 11: American Terrified of DNS
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I registered with facebook some weeks ago, and think it’s a pretty cool website. I made a parody version of their front page called arsebook, and it has been pretty well visited with nearly 40,000 visitors so far.
I didn’t think that everyone who came to see the site would get the joke – thats [...]
GPGMail and Apple Mail – unread messages
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I posted to UKNot last week that I’d been having trouble with Mail.app since I started using the GPGMail plugin. When I left an IMAP folder, then some messages would change from being marked as read, to being marked as unread again. Because I automatically filter new mail into folders, this was causing [...]
Common Event Expression.
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I am getting quite excited about some of the material I have been reading on Common Event Expression (pdf). CEE is a desire to standardise the way that events are described. I can see this being of significant advantage to sysadmins who need to produce large scale monitoring systems.
We already all use syslog-ng or rsyslogd [...]
HP Laserjet 1022n and Mac OS/X
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I was trying to print from a mac to the HP Laserjet 1022n printer. Bonjour could see the printer, but couldn’t find a driver.
All of the blogs I found when googling recommended to plug the printer into the mac directly, let it detect it as a local printer, then plug it back into the network. [...]
Internet TV Offerings.
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I met some incredibly nice people from Joost last week, and met some different incredibly nice people from Network2.tv last month, so I decided I’d try both services and compare.
Drumroll please …… at the very early days, I think that Network2.tv is slightly better.
I can use my web-browser to watch network2, and start full screen [...]
Borders to cut UK presence
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The WSJ yesterday revealed that Borders, the US #2 bookstore, and preferred high-street outlet of tech books to many, was going to scale its international (non-US) presence.
I have made the pilgrimage to Birstall on several occasions to check out the latest O’reillys and such before buying in the large Borders store there. As the [...]
