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My first big story about IPv6 on Ars Technica, way back in 2007.
Permalink - posted 2007-03-08
Always great to be able to use lines from Seinfeld in a tech story. In this case, you could make DHCP reservations but the Airport Extreme wouldn't use them.
Permalink - posted 2007-03-05
2006 was another busy year for the five Regional Internet Registries: together, they gave out 161.48 million IPv4 addresses, just shy of the 165.45 million given out in 2005 as measured on january first 2006.
Permalink - posted 2007-01-01
The other day, I was sitting in a hotel lobby waiting for some people, working on my laptop. There I had the following conversation:
“Hey, is there a wireless network here?”
“No.”
“Then how are you working?”
“I’m working offline.”
<gasp>
In this age of AJAX, webmail, instant messaging and YouTube videos working offline seems so 1980s. I guess this means I’m getting old, because I’m much more comfortable having my stuff (or at least, copies of my stuff) on local storage, so I have access to it regardless of my connectivity, and there is at least a fighting chance that an application that works today still works tomorrow.
Interestingly, Microsoft, a company that makes billions selling software that makes computers useful whether or not they’re connected (Office), has jumped on the web-based applications bandwagon. Apparently they don’t see that web-based applications make Microsoft obsolete: all you need to run them is Linux and Firefox.
Apple on the other hand, seems to focus on applications that work best locally. Long after the majority of Office users have switched to free or cheap web-based alternatives, possibly discarding Windows in the process, creative professionals (and hobbyists) will still be buying Apple hard- and software to do their audio, video and image editing.
(Originally published on the Apress blog, which is now gone.)
posted 2006-11-06
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The Internet Protocol Journal, Vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 16-29, September