I wrote about the Fiasco of .XXX few days ago. A casual observer might conclude the following: 1. ICANN board approved .XXX 2. US government (DoC) halt .XXX delegation 3. GAC stepped in one day after (2) to give US governments it some legimitacy However, there is another different explaination of the realty which is […]
Month: August 2005
More about Google Talk
I did some packet sniffing and look at how Google Talk works. 1. Google Talk is Jabber (XMPP) compliant. Here is what it send for authentication <stream:stream to=”gmail.com” version=”1.0″ xmlns:stream=”http://etherx.jabber.org/streams” xmlns=”jabber:client”> <stream:features> <starttls xmlns=”urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:xmpp-tls”/> <mechanisms xmlns=”urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:xmpp-sasl”> <mechanism>X-GOOGLE-TOKEN</mechanism> </mechanisms> </stream:features> <auth xmlns=”urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:xmpp-sasl” mechanism=”X-GOOGLE-TOKEN”<(Some hash, presume Google Token)</auth> Then followed by the standard presence information etc. Interestingly, […]
Google Talk
Google just launched their Google Talk! First, I have to eat my own words – I predicted that Google will enter VoIP space focusing on their search capability but instead, they revolve it around their Gmail expanding the communication capability instead. Now, on to the good news, Google embraced Open Standard! Not only the IM […]
APAN Day Zero
Someone left a comment asking me what’s APAN or Asia Pacific Advance Network. It is a meeting where AP network researchers get together to discussing advance networking issues and also a place where Advance Research and Education Network (AREN) (and also the GRID lately) people gather to discuss network collobration. SingAREN is the representative for […]
APAN Taiwan
Had a great lunch meeting with my fellows editors of Tomorrow.sg. Now, we need to go back do some more thinking on the next step. And now, I just checked into Howard Plaza Hotel for APAN Taipei.
Where is FCC heading?
Scott Bradner’s latest article is a must-read. I come to similiar observation, that FCC seem to be moving further and further right ever since the new Chairman is in. The last few critical rulings on 911 on VoIP, Naked DSL has sided towards the incumbents and less on the consumers. I know FCC is basically […]
Fiasco over .XXX
By now, everyone in the industry already know about the .XXX fiasco. If you don’t, here is a quick summary. – ICANN approved the .XXX delegation to ICMRegistry on 1st June. ICMRegistry announced it will be operational on 16th August. – Michael Gallagher requested Vint Cerf to delay .XXX delegation on 11th August. Michael Gallagher […]
mplayer tricks
Several months ago, I mentioned I was looking for mplayer documention. My wife has a bunch of wma files which she ripped using Windows Media Player but can’t play on iPod or iTunes now. We could probably rip again but being OSS geek, we like to inflict pain upon ourselves to look for the most […]
Korea gets 10Gbps KR-US and KR-CN circuits
Just read the latest GLORAID update: The first major step of the six-country GLORIAD effort to establish a lightpath-enabled ring around the northern hemi-sphere is being taken in a few short weeks – thanks to the efforts of partners at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI) and to the substantial funding commitment […]
Fun with Panorama
Took some photos of Louvre Museum and had some fun making paronomic view of it, using Open Source Software of course! Tools used (1) Hugin to align the photos and (2) Enblend to stitch the align photos together and optionally (3) Autopan-SIFT to generate control points for Hugin. Bob Park has an excellent instruction on […]