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Sun Sep 07 16:52:22 2008 GMT: SIPFwd 0.6
Sun Aug 31 16:48:07 2008 GMT: Facebook application turns users into attackers
Sat Aug 30 08:36:59 2008 GMT: Domain Transfer
Why is it so difficult to transfer a .org domain from one registrar to another? To start with, you need an authorisation code, reply to a couple of authorisation e-mail and then wait for 5 days. After 5 days, I was then told that the transfer has failed (refused by current registrar). Half a day later, I then got an e-mail that the transfer has finally succeeded. I really do wonder if this process is the best way to do this transfers.
BTW, I transferred cmeerw.org to gandi.net, mainly to use their mail service (as I want to move away from using AOL's IMAP server to one located in Europe).
Sun Aug 24 13:31:10 2008 GMT: Twinkle 1.3.1 and slrn 0.9.9 Ubuntu packages
I have just packaged Twinkle 1.3.1 (without KDE libs) and slrn 0.9.9p1 (+ minimal multipart patch) for Ubuntu hardy heron and put it on .deb packages page. Both of these packages include huge improvements over the versions included in Ubuntu hardy heron.
BTW, many thanks again to Michel de Boer for picking up my suggestion to add X session management support to Twinkle.
Sun Aug 17 12:22:34 2008 GMT: Online Storage
Although there is still a chance that AOL will find a buyer for XDrive, I have been looking at online storage alternatives. One interesting thing is that a lot of these services are still in beta and most are concentrating on value added services like online collaboration instead of just online storage.
So far I have had a closer look at: ADrive (offers 50 GB of storage, but as they explicitely prohibit encryption, you would only want to use it for non-sensible data like a photo album - while they don't have a documented API, their web interface uses json, so it can be scripted quite easily), DropBoks (very minimal interface), box.net (they have a documented API) and getdropbox.com (limited web interface and no Linux client yet, but looks quite promising).
Thu Aug 07 19:04:35 2008 GMT: 1.9 Million DVDs
Just received my copy of Cisco's Internet Protocol Journal (Volume 11, Number 2) and I am a bit confused by Vint Cerf's logic in "A Decade of Internet Evolution": he claims that the aggragate bandwidth for shipping 1.9 million DVDs (with 4.7 GB each) per day (assuming a 3-day delivery time) would be about 275 Gbps.
What I don't understand is why the delivery time would be relevant when you ship 1.9 million DVDs each day. Either you only base your calculation on 1.9 million DVDs per day -- or you take the delivery time into account, but then you also have to take into account that at any one time three times the number of DVDs are in transit. In any case, the aggregate bandwidth would be 827 Gbps. If your bandwidth was only be 275 Gbps, you would only be able to ship 1.9 million DVDs every three days.
Fri Jul 25 21:38:45 2008 GMT: AOL Sunsetting XDrive
Damn, just as I am putting finishing touches on my Python XDrive API, AOL is planning to sunset XDrive.
Sat Jul 12 09:51:21 2008 GMT: Holiday Photos
Wed Jul 09 17:21:59 2008 GMT: Google Privacy Concerns
Sun Jun 22 08:49:41 2008 GMT: Scripting XDrive
Sun Jun 22 08:43:08 2008 GMT: Opera 9.5
Sun Jun 15 07:20:34 2008 GMT: NewsCache 1.3.ipv6 Released
