Last week, I attended Unconference organized by the local Entrepreneur27. Others like Kevin has covered the event so I won’t but I share some thoughts instead. Unconference (and also BarCamp a few weeks before) is unique in many ways. It is close to what you get in the typical “cool” or “geek” event in the […]
Category: Technology
Dummy Guide to Wifi Network
This morning, I received an unsolicited request to link to a website. Normally, I just dump them aside but this is an exception. First, it is an article on dailywireless.com, a site that I read occasionally and second, it is a pretty good guide to securing wifi network. How-to: Secure a Wireless LAN By now […]
Repairing Submarine Cables
Alcatel, one of the major submarine cable builder in the world, has an interesting resource page on submarine cables like an animation on how to repair submarine cables cut. (via Ben Frankes) The animation looks easy. Detect the cut, pick up one cable, then the other and then join them back. Even considering it takes […]
New Media
Found this “comic” in the newspaper. It is more real then funny tho.
Predictions for 2007
I have a fun time reading various predictions for 2007, e.g. Wired, Wireless, Funny, Google and Information Week. Some sample includes: – Internet Traffic Doubles to 5,000 petabits per day by the end of 2007. And 80 percent of it is peer-to-peer file sharing, mostly Skype video and BitTorrent. – Google GDrive will finally be […]
IPv4 Address Usage
Happy New Year As we start on a new year, lets look at the 2006 IPv4 Address Use Report The current (jan 1st, 2007) figure for 2005 is 175.52 million addresses. Together with adjustments for earlier years, this brings the total addresses available to almost exactly 1.3 billion, down from 1468.61 million a year ago. […]
Submarine fibers in Asia
We are slowly recovering from the disaster submarine fiber cut due to the earthquake in Taiwan. It is definitely one of the worst I remember…the last time a fiber cut affect us that badly is in 1994. First, lets clarify a few misconceptions: submarine cables are not under the seabed. It is just lay across […]
Making money from virtual money
Saw this on slashdot today: Chinese student arrested after making 150 million yen selling items for online RPG Wang Yue Si, 23, came to Japan on a student visa in April 2004. He started selling items such as weapons and currency for online games through an Internet auction site in April this year, without obtaining […]
WiMAX … where it is headed?
It is a strange morning to wake up and to read the following two news: – Lack Of telecom infrastructure drives WiMAX adoption in AP; and – WiMAX Will Not Dominate in the Short-Term, Analysts Say. Arent analysts fun? One say “Yes yes, WiMAX will grow in AP” and the other say “No no, WiMAX […]
Internationalizing the Internet
A couple of news caught my attention today. With the impeding Microsoft IE 7 support of IDN, the industry has renewed its interest in IDN. Already, CircleID is buzzing with articles on IDNs in the last couple of weeks and various commenters noted that IDN registrations is expecting to go up. Look no further, it […]