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Fri Feb 08 22:37:10 2008 GMT: Alcatel-Lucent Reports Loss

Mon Feb 04 19:34:55 2008 GMT: Yahoo!

Mon Jan 21 21:23:32 2008 GMT: Tiscali Blocking Port 119

Just noticed that my ISP is filtering data on port 119 - in fact they are even filtering connections to their own news server. Here is a tcpdump:

000000 IP 88.106.196.46.44288 > 212.74.114.194.119: S 2818442646:2818442646(0) win 5840 
015899 IP 212.74.114.194.119 > 88.106.196.46.44288: S 2767715672:2767715672(0) ack 2818442647 win 24616 
000152 IP 88.106.196.46.44288 > 212.74.114.194.119: . ack 1 win 365 
1219006 IP 88.106.196.46.44288 > 212.74.114.194.119: P 1:7(6) ack 1 win 365 
213934 IP 88.106.196.46.44288 > 212.74.114.194.119: P 1:7(6) ack 1 win 365 
431989 IP 88.106.196.46.44288 > 212.74.114.194.119: P 1:7(6) ack 1 win 365 
864012 IP 88.106.196.46.44288 > 212.74.114.194.119: P 1:7(6) ack 1 win 365 
1728002 IP 88.106.196.46.44288 > 212.74.114.194.119: P 1:7(6) ack 1 win 365 
3456003 IP 88.106.196.46.44288 > 212.74.114.194.119: P 1:7(6) ack 1 win 365 
6912001 IP 88.106.196.46.44288 > 212.74.114.194.119: P 1:7(6) ack 1 win 365 

SYN and FIN packets are not affected, but any data is just silently dropped (resulting in retransmissions).

Thu Jan 17 21:28:42 2008 GMT: Sun to Acquire MySQL

So why does Sun want to acquire MySQL? In the past they appeared to lean much more towards PostgreSQL. And in fact PostgreSQL for Solaris still says: "If you want a database that offers the assurance of a high-end SQL database on Solaris and the cost benefits of open source, PostgreSQL for Solaris is it."

Thu Dec 27 21:47:03 2007 GMT: Trennen sich Alcatel und Lucent wieder?

In So wird 2008 the Financial Times Deutschland asks "Trennen sich Alcatel und Lucent wieder?"

Sun Dec 23 22:28:48 2007 GMT: Economist's Three Fearless Predictions

There are a few things worth pointing out in Economist's Three fearless predictions: the article claims that "the biggest road-hog remains spam (unsolicited e-mail), which accounts for 90% of traffic on the internet". That figure doesn't sound plausible - according to P2P growth creates battle for bandwidth e-mail only uses a few percent of the total internet traffic, while P2P eats up more than three quarters of all traffic (what the author was probably trying to say is that spam accounts for 90 % of e-mail traffic).

BTW, the other point worth mentioning is: "No question, [Ubuntu] Gutsy Gibbon is the sleekest, best integrated and most user-friendly Linux distribution yet. It's now simpler to set up and configure than Windows."

Sat Dec 15 12:51:00 2007 GMT: Amazon SimpleDB

I am just wondering where Amazon's SimpleDB could be useful. The main problem I am seeing is the high latency to access the database in combination with it's extremly simple (i.e. limited) query language which will result in extra round-trips as you will have to move more query logic into the application.

Other concerns include API overhead an their pricing model (as you can't know how expensive queries will be in advance).

Sun Nov 25 21:44:27 2007 GMT: Visual C++ 2008 Express

Mon Nov 12 19:00:06 2007 GMT: SEO Link Builder

Sat Nov 10 22:24:12 2007 GMT: swindon.gov.uk

Thu Nov 01 20:09:30 2007 GMT: Alcatel-Lucent's Q3 Results

Sun Oct 28 11:28:27 2007 GMT: High Scalability