Entries tagged with “networking” from O'Reilly Digital Media Blog

After three years of "community" Mandrake Linux, my work PC has run out of steam. Lots of rubbish and out of date: time for a spring clean and a new operating system! So I decided to do things the easy way: go down to the newsagent and pick a nice looking distribution from a magazine DVD and install that. So...

Oh. I guess I didn't understand the meaning of the word "wireless." It's a trademark. Got it. Sorry, my bad....

Finally, we'll be able to use our EVDO cards via a USB connection!

The strangest NFS problem I've ever troubleshooted... Solaris 9 NFS serever; all clients were reporting "No record locks available."

You see a fairly inexpensive Cisco router advertised to support IPv6, so you scrounge up email addresses for people you know can connect you to the 6bone, dust off that IANA (or RIPE, APNIC) paperwork with your /32 allocation information, and purchase. What a mistake that was.

Where HTML went wrong at W3C, and WHAT to do about it

In my continuing quest for the ideal p2p NAT/firewall traversal stack, I ran across this useful presentation a while ago from Dan Kaminski of http://www.doxpara.com/.

This is a nice synopsis of major P2P applications and their networking, in the form of a "how to block these apps". Gives some insight on P2P and firewalls.

Commercial wireless networks don't seem to be such a hot proposition and the latest studies support this. WiFi is growing, but revenue from WiFi services are not.

University of Twente in the Netherlands has a 300+ acre wireless hotspot, using 802.11b and a.

As Clay Shirky pointed out in his ZapMail essay, business models for wirless networking are elusive. Now we're seeing the first signs of this as the big companies start rolling out larger wireless networks.

An IETF standard for NAT traversal - excellent.

Venture capitalists are investing in Wi-Fi companies; Intel is pushing 802.11, new PCs are coming with Wi-Fi antennas, even Tablet PC is WiFi ready. Another victory for a bazaar, grass roots mentality over CathedralThink.

Empty cans of Pringles crisps could be helping malicious hackers spot wireless networks that are open to attack.