Firefox 3 is out! It seems that the World Record of downloads in 24 hours will be difficult to accomplish…
Category: Net
Who Still Remember Usenet?
A page of the Internet history will maybe be turned off soon. Three major ISPs in the United States (Verizon, Sprint and Time Warner Cable) announced they will stop access to Usenet! (or access will be limited to the Big-8). The youngest of us have probably never used a “newsreader”
Upside-Down-Ternet
Security is part of our daily life and is a serious topic. So, when it can be made with some fun, it’s even better! 😉 Check out: Upside-Down Ternet.
More Hosting Nightmare…
Today, my blog suffered of a new severe outage! It already happened end of 2006: One more time, my server was moved to a new data center without prior notification! Ok, there is nothing business critical in this server. But little communication from my hoster would be much better: –
“Doing Well by Doing Right”
Today, I received a mailing (partnership between ING and Steptone) to promote open career opportunities at ING. Well, I receive a lot of mailings but this one was quite special… It said: For more information about career opportunities, visit www.ingitcrew.be.. I really liked the slogan “Doing Well by Doing Right“,
France Will Filter Child Pornography
It’s almost done. To fight child pornography on the Internet, the French government has a project of law (article in French) to filter all websites giving access to child pornography. The list will be distributed to all French ISP’s and they will have to block access to those websites (on
Bad Day for “The Planet”
The Planet is a hosting provider like many others in the US. End of May, a fire incident hit one of their Houston data center. A few numbers: 9000 servers down 7500 customers affected $900000 estimated loss Read the story: http://forums.theplanet.com/index.php?showtopic=90185
Will Finally IPv6 Arise?
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) published a document to warn goverments and business about the near-future IPv4 addresses shortage. Actually 85% of the IPv4 address space of already assigned (total space is 2^32 == 4,294,967,296) and should be fully assigned by 2011! Of course, a lot of
Google Safe Browsing
Google is never miserly in innovations. Their labs is full of nice tools for all of us. Google Safe Browsing is a tool which helps you to identify potential unsafe websites. Queries are in format: http://google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=<your url> Example: http://google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=blog.rootshell.be.
nsa.gov Offline During a Few Hours
The name servers hosting the National Security Agency (aka nsa.gov) were reported unavailable during a few hours around May the 15th. How is this possible? Let start some investigations using dig. When you query a root-server and ask for the name servers (NS records) of the nsa.gov zone, you receive