Deep Packet Inspection, infamously used by Comcast to forge reset packets to disrupt the BitTorrent protocol, and by the NSA to spy, and by the government of Iran to identify protestors (pursuant to imprisoning and murdering some of them) is making a comeback in enterprises, according to Christopher Rhoads at the Wall Street Journal. Out [...]
Archive | July, 2009
Microsoft and Yahoo. (Again.)
According to Yahoo Finance, which, you would imagine might have an accurate take on such things, Microsoft and Yahoo have finally agreed to a partnership. You will remember that Microsoft tried to purchase Yahoo outright last year, but the deal fell through. Instead, Yahoo will now use Microsoft’s Bing search engine to power search, while [...]
The State of Network Management
We recently put together a report with Ashton, Metzler & Associates, trying to gauge the state of network management today. After our best efforts, we have learned a few things. For example, the state of network management is not Ohio. That’s the Buckeye State. After checking the 50 states of the U.S., the six states [...]
AT&T confuses, infuriates 4chan.
Yesterday, TechCrunch and Slashdot, among others, reported that AT&T users were unable to access img.4chan.org; one of the subdomains hosting the infamous “b” board. If you’re unfamiliar with 4chan, do not google it. I have not provided a link to the site in the blog, and that is for very good reason. It is rather [...]
Essay: Ruminations on The Cheaptop
Network World reports that Wal-Mart is going to be selling an AMD-Sempron 2.1GHz powered laptop with 3GB of RAM for less than $300. It’s a bit more powerful than what we think of as a “netbook” – which can go for as little as $238. We’ve talked about how netbook ownership has gone hand-in-hand with [...]
User Interfarce
If you were to ask me my five favorite comedy troupes of all time, I’d probably name the Muppets, the Kids in the Hall, Backpack Picnic, Monty Python, and the Legislative Branch of the U.S. Congress. This is just a quick post today, but I wanted to follow up on something I wrote yesterday about [...]
Designing the network around the user
There’s an interesting article in the automotive section of the New York Times. It talks about how the Ford Motor Company creates fictional personalities which detail a “typical” end-user for an automobile they hope to design – and then they design the vehicle around that end-user. Ford came up with the process because they found [...]
40th Lunarversary.
As we all know by now, today is the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11’s moon landing, unless you are one of those few who choose not to believe the Mythbusters when they debunked the idea of a moon landing hoax. Then there’s my uncle Edward, who believes that the moon landing was faked from a [...]
Cisco’s MediaNet Demo, using NetQoS Performance Center
By Keith Bendy Business Development Manager, NetQoS It’s hard to miss the “human network” theme in virtually all of Cisco’s recent commercials. They are clearly advocating a lot of converged network capabilities – voice, video, and other interpersonal communication or information methods. It makes sense – video and voice are bandwidth heavy applications, and it’s [...]
The Future, Conan? All the way to the year 2012…
We’ve been harping on NBC Universal’s coverage of the Beijing 2008 Olympics, so it seems fair to look forward to the 2012 Olympics in London. First, Cisco has become an official Olympic sponsor, replacing Nortel, which has filed for bankruptcy. Interestingly enough, though there’s certainly a lot of infrastructure associated with organizing the games – [...]
What Is Video?
I’ve been getting better and better with video as I’ve worked here – and I noticed that many people don’t really understand the nature of digital video files – what makes one file big, what makes one small, what makes one 20 MB file look good, while another 20 MB file looks lousy. Considering that [...]
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Two thoughts on health and the economy:
I’d like to be skinny. And have a million dollars. G’night folks! ———— I have just been informed that, even though it is Friday, I still need to put at least some effort into writing an intelligent blog post. So, here goes. Here’s my first thought about health and the economy: Obviously, there have been [...]