Archive for 'Technology'
IP Addresses by Country and Registrar — August 2008
The five top-level IP Registrars (ARIN, RIPE, APNIC, LACNIC, AFRINIC) manage tens of million IPV4 and IPV6 addresses, assigning them to networks around the world. These addresses are key to accessing the Internet for all end-users.
About once a year, I generate the statistics out of the IP address database I maintain. The last one was [...]
Posted: August 25th, 2008 under Commentary, Technology.
Tags: AFRINIC, APNIC, ARIN, August 2008, IPV4, LACNIC, Registrar, Registry, RIPE, Yearly Review
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Upgrade to WP 2.6.1 - Complete
Ok, all I have to say is: If you do not have the Wordpress Automatic Upgrade plugin, go get it. The update took all of 30 seconds.
Thanks to the authors of that extremely useful piece of code.
Posted: August 15th, 2008 under Blogging, Life, Technology.
Tags: automatic upgrade, plugin, wordpress, wordpress 2.6.1
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Wordpress Install - Installer FAIL!
So, the last post I put up simply stated that I had failed in installing Worpress 2.6 on my own server. The permalinks were messed up and it looked a lot like an issue that a lot of people were having.
But, the catch was: the problem persisted when I tried to use Wordpress 2.5.1. Hmmm…wonder [...]
Posted: August 6th, 2008 under Blogging, RANTING, Technology.
Tags: .htaccess, apache, wordpress, wordpress 2.6
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It’s the network, dummy
In the GigaOm blog today, Allen Leinwand puts up a monstrous wake-up call to all the hip and cool Web 2.0 companies out there: Your apps run across the Internet [here].
I have spent 9 years investigating, diagnosing, and validating the Web performance issues of companies. I can tear the Web performance data of a site [...]
Posted: May 8th, 2008 under RANTING, Technology, Web Performance.
Tags: Allen Leinwand, GigaOm, Internet, networking, performance measurement, TCP, Web 1.0
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Xobni Public
If you’ve come here looking for Xobni invites, don’t bother. It’s open to all now.
Go make your Outlook less excruciating.
Posted: May 5th, 2008 under RANTING, Technology.
Tags: Outlook, Xobni
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Easy to use, spam-proof, contact form
Ok folks, I am tired of people spamming my captcha contact form. I need a better solution. Does anyone have an excellent, proven, and simple to deploy method for fooling the bots on a contact form?
Posted: April 17th, 2008 under RANTING, Technology.
Tags: CAPTCHA, contact form, spam
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Unwanted Windows Live Weather Alerts
We got Samantha a new T-Mobile cell a few weeks back. But it came with an unwanted and expensive feature: every morning at 11:00, she receives a weather update from Windows Live Alerts.
Apparently the previous owner of the number had these alerts programmed. And of course, there is no way to shut them off because [...]
Posted: October 31st, 2007 under GSM, RANTING, Software, Technology.
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GSM Phones are my weakness…
I have a problem: I like to collect GSM phones. Right now, I have seven.
From left to right.
MOTORAZR V3
MOTORIZR Z3
MOTOSLVR L7i (current phone in use)
Motorola V188 (running V220 software)
Sony Ericsson K700i
Nokia of some description
Samsung T619
Ugh.
Posted: September 27th, 2007 under RANTING, Technology.
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And poof! In a puff of smoke, it was gone.
When I got home today, Samantha pointed to her computer and said it wouldn’t go. And it won’t
Dead. Deceased. Demised.
Likely a dead motherboard, and on a Dell, it’s not worth repairing. Now good for spare parts.
New refurb from Dell on the way.
Ugh.
Tags: Dell, refurb, power surge
Posted: July 12th, 2007 under Life, Technology.
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Gizmo: One more advantage — slow connection performance
This morning, I noticed that Gizmo has one more advantage over Skype: substantially better performance over slower/less optimal WiFi connections.
Skype is slowly getting the can from me. Sorry kids.
Posted: June 25th, 2007 under Skype, Software, Technology, VoIP.
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