business
There has been plenty of news about data traffic growth caused by iPhone popular overloading networks in the USA and more recently the UK. I have been in Northern Italy for the holidays using 3 Italy's 3Power10 pre-paid SIM for the duration of my visit. I was quite
technology
For those of you that don't know, Facebook and Twitter have been blocked here in the People's Republic of China for the past several months. While most would say that this offers a lessons regarding censorship, an equally important lesson is what it teaches us about
technology
I have been accessing Google via IPv6 for the past few months thanks to the nice people at Hurricane Electric. Every once in a while when using Gmail, I will get a security error warning me that the SSL certificate for mail.google.com does not belong to that site
technology
A couple of weeks ago we released an update to Pay4Bugs, our software testing marketplace, that had hidden in it a small but incredibly usual new feature for those of you that have both Customer and Tester accounts. Quick Switch is a pair of tabs that appear at the top
technology
I saw a post a few weeks ago on Planet OpenID describing the difficulty a tech savvy user had trying to login to an OpenID-enabled site using a Yahoo!-provided OpenID. In the problem described in iwoman's post, a tech savvy user gets confused by the fact that
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The launch of Pay4Bugs was unique not only because it is one of the first real products launched from day one with dual stack IPv4/IPv6 access, but also because Pay4Bugs, along with its sister IPv6-enabled OpenID provider, 87id, is the first site to make possible OpenID sign on using
technology
Aaron Toponce over at Planet Ubuntu has an excellent article with graphics that really puts the vast size of the IPv6 address space in perspective in relationship to the almost used up IPv4 address space in perspective. I would just add that 64bits of the 128bit IPv6 address space do
design
This post is the third in a series about radical technology choices in Pay4Bugs. In the first post in this series, I listened among our radical technology decisions the decision to launch our new Pay4Bugs Software Testing Marketplace without any support for Internet Explorer 6. In the interests of full
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This post is the second in a series about radical technology choices in Pay4Bugs. In my previous post, I discussed our decision to make several radical technology choices in designing the new Pay4Bugs software testing service. In this article, I will discuss the decision to launch Pay4Bugs with IPv6 enabled
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Designing Pay4Bugs, our new global software testing marketplace, provided us with much more flexibility in our technology choices when compared with designing our company's namesake product Attigo Virtual Language Immersion. Attigo's target market is the education market. Schools and educators, understandability, tend to be relatively conservative
technology
Amazon Web Service's new Content Data Network, Cloudfront was launched two days ago. Previously Cachefly had been the premier choice for Small and Medium size businesses looking for a content data network to speed up downloads for the users. I was mainly interested in download speed in the
technology
I spent quite a long time googling for a way of re-creating symmetric cone nat in house without buying Cisco hardware. Hopefully someone else will find this useful. This was done on Ubuntu 8.04 beta. eth1 = public ip eth0 = lan ip echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/