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Kill Your TV

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A pre-production evaluation of the latest foray into the digital living room from Cisco may have flaws but it represents a response to perceived needs of consumers that demand more simplicity. Expect to see the an array of alternatives that deliver much simpler use case scenarios for a world that is composed of consumers that [...]

December 2, 2009 0 comments Read more... →

CALEA and Me

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May 14th is the official deadline for cable modem companies, DSL providers, broadband over powerline, satellite internet companies and some universities to finish wiring up their networks with FBI-friendly surveillance gear, to comply with the FCC’s expanded interpretation of the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act
source: Wired
For the past 6 months I’ve been doing a [...]

May 12, 2007 0 comments Read more... →

Google has AOL envy

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AOL’s BYOB uses a tunnel/vpn approach. I wonder where Google could have ever gotten the idea… but the effect is clear:

Off VPN:

$ /usr/sbin/traceroute www.google.com

traceroute: Warning: www.google.com has multiple addresses; using 64.233.161.104

traceroute to www.l.google.com (64.233.161.104), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets

1 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 1.984 ms 1.131 ms 1.058 ms

2 [...]

September 23, 2005 0 comments Read more... →

Tel Aviv Traceroute

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Greetings from Tel Aviv. My body says it is noon. Everyone else here says it is 7 hours later.
The flight sucked so much it isn’t funny. First, all my connects are late… then I get to the ticketing counter and they tell me they are overbooked and since I am late to check in [...]

April 29, 2000 0 comments Read more... →