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Using IPv6: Watching the dancing turtle

ARIN, the organization responsible for giving out IP numbers in North America, says it's time to start using IPv6. This time, they really mean it! Can you hear the collective yawn? The fact is, until they're forced to, most people don't care and they're not going to...

Tags: Datacenter, General, IT Management

Blog posts 2007-05-25

Google the ISP with 2^96 IPv6 addresses

Google the ISP with 2^96 IPv6 addresses2^96I guess that should be enough!And if the popularity of NAT continues, more than enough!;)Google as ISP... because of net neutrality???It might be a stretch, but if one thinks about it, it would make sense.If Google were to become an ISP, they would be...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), NETWORKING, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Network technology, U.S. Government, Google Inc., IPv6, IP, IPv6 Address

Discussion threads 2006-06-25

Google the ISP with 2^96 IPv6 addresses

Garett Rogers had this blog about "Google's secret IPv6 plans". It appears that Google owns a block of IPv6 addresses numbering approximately 7.9 x 1028 (79 billion billion billion addresses) or 296. Basically Google owns any IPv6 address from:2001:4860:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000to2001:4860:FFFF:FFFF:FFFF:FFFF:FFFF:FFFFARIN the organization that allocates IP addresses on the Internet...

Tags: IPv6 Address, IPv6, Google Inc.

Blog posts 2006-06-25

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iPhone vs. Android development: Day 5

Today is the last day of a 5-day course on iPhone programming class led by Joe Conway from Big Nerd Ranch. During the course I've been taking notes on how development for the iPhone compares to development for Android. By the way, BNR also offers Android courses if you're interested....

Tags: Program, Apple iPhone, Web Service, Android, iPhone API, Settings App, Android Preference, Cloud Computing, Web Services, XML, Channel Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Marketing, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-11-21

iPhone 2.2 firmware released

As expected, Apple released iPhone firmware 2.2 today. The 246MB update includes the following published features: Enhancements to Maps Google Street View Public transit and walking directions Display address of dropped pins Share location via email ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Safari, Firmware, Apple iTunes, E-mail, Digital Music, Digital Media, Online Communications, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-11-21

iPhone vs. Android development: Day 4

It's day 4 of a 5-day course on iPhone programming. As before I'll be sharing my observations from the classroom on how development on the iPhone compares to Android development. The class is presented by Joe Conway from Big Nerd Ranch. [Read: Day 1, Day 2, Day...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Animation, Camera, View, View Transitions, Core Graphics, Android API, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-11-20

Advantages of the Storm over the iPhone (updated)

(Update: I took the number out of the headline, because it keeps changing.) I got to play with a Blackberry Storm earlier this week and a couple of features immediately jumped out at me that beat the iPhone hands down: Copy and Paste...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Battery, Apple Inc., Blackberry Storm, Keyboards, Engineering, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Hardware, Peripherals, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-11-20

Wyse, more than just thin clients

I've followed Wyse for the longest time and yet, when I had an opportunity to speak with Jeff McNaught, CMO of Wyse Technology I was surprised at how far they're business has evolved from that base. The company now is doing interesting things in three areas: virtual clients, cloud computing...

Tags: Thin Client, Wyse Technology Inc., Thin Clients, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-11-20

iPhone vs. Android development: Day 3

This is the 3rd in a series of 5 posts about an iPhone programming course I'm taking this week. The course is presented by Joe Conway from Big Nerd Ranch. To make things more interesting I'm writing about how iPhone development differs from Android development, a subject with which I'm...

Tags: OpenGL, Apple iPhone, Android, Timers, Textures Textures, MultiTouch, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-11-19

Software Installation Policy

The purpose of this policy is to address all issues relevant to software installation and deployment on your company's computer systems. Use this policy as-is or customize it to meet your needs. This download is available for free as part of a ...

Tags: Software, Policy, Tools & Techniques, Productivity, Management

Download resources 2008-11-19

iPhone vs. Android development: Day 2

Welcome to day 2 of a 5-day course on iPhone programming presented by Joe Conway from Big Nerd Ranch. During the course I'll be blogging about the differences between Android and iPhone development. [Read: Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4, Day 5] ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, User Interface, Localizable.strings, Android Eclipse Plug-in, UINavigationController, UITabBarController, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-11-18

Addressing virtualization's achilles heel

The benefits of virtualization are quite obvious but when you start to really increase the density of virtual machines in order to maximize utilization suddenly it ain't such a simple proposition. The latest CPUs from AMD and Intel are more than up to the task of running 10-20 or more...

Tags: Bandwidth, Virtualization, Network Interface Card, Blade, Achilles Heel, VM, Networking, Servers, Hardware, James Staten

Blog posts 2008-11-17

Conversation with Replicate Technologies

Rich Miller, CEO, and Oren Teich, VP Product, both of Replicate Technologies spent a while providing an introduction to the company and an explanation of what they're doing. It was great catching up with both of them. Rich was the CTO of Univa, a company focused on bringing high performance...

Tags: Oren, Data Centers, Cloud Computing, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-11-17

OLPC is dead...What Kindlenomics taught us

Fellow ZDNet blogger, Jason Perlow, wrote a neat piece suggesting that, if electronic versions of most college textbooks existed, it wouldn't take many semesters for the average undergraduate to pay for the Kindle on which to read them. In fact, with a fair amount of arm-waving, it wasn't too...

Tags: Student, Hardware, Textbook, One Laptop Per Child Project, Kindle, Kindroid, XO 2.0, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-11-16

Netbooks, mini-notebooks, ultraportables and semantic fun with AMD

AMD is targeting what Intel calls the netbook market, but not completely. Here's a tale of semantic fun on Friday night. When I read Brooke Crothers report on how AMD wasn't entering the netbook market I was shocked. After all, I was one of those people that...

Tags: Mini-notebook, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-11-14

AMD's Extreme Makeover: What the new roadmaps reveal

Lost in all of the inaccurate commotion yesterday about AMD entering the netbook market were much broader changes in the company's product plans as it struggles to regain profitability and keep up with a deep-pocketed Intel. In the past year, AMD has announced plans to spin-off manufacturing, abandoned efforts to...

Tags: Platform, Plan, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Chip, DDR3, Notebooks, Desktops, Processors, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Semiconductors, Components, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-11-14

After McColo, spam way down - temporarily

Spam plummeted by two-thirds, in the wake of the plug being pulled on alleged cybercrime host McColo, according to news reports. But virtually no one thinks spam will continue at today's low level of merely 60 billion spam messages per day. ...

Tags: Spammer, Eastern Europe, Spam, Cyberthreats, Security, Spam And Phishing, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-11-14

Weekly addresses go on YouTube

OK, Internet presidency, let's go. Wired reports that President-elect Obama will deliver his weekly addresses via YouTube, as well as radio and MP3. "President-elect Obama will continue to record and make available the Democratic radio addresses on video when he is in the White House," according...

Tags: Radio, YouTube Inc., Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-11-14

Sun plugs holes in StarOffice

Two weeks after the OpenOffice.org team shipped patches for code execution flaws in office suite, Sun Micrososystems has followed up with a high-priority update for StarOffice, which is based on the open-source code. Sun's patch, available for Windows, Linux and Solaris, address highly-critical vulnerabilities that could expose...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., OpenOffice.org, Arbitrary Code Execution, StarOffice, OpenOffice, Patches, Open Source, Office Suites, Software, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-11-14

Lessons from Twitterank launch

The Twitterank experience this week is a sobering example of how equilibrium around an online application can quickly change. Twitter is a powerful tool used by a huge number of people worldwide (Japan enjoys the greatest usage and the most sophisticated usage model - only...

Tags: Twitter, Ryo, Productivity, Security, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-11-14