I've been subscribed to some of the Irish Computer Society's newsletters for some time, though I am not a member.Some weeks ago they sent out a newsletter without a subject line, which would have struck me as slightly odd, but when it came from ICS it struck me as incompetent. I contacted them about it, naturally, however they obviously still haven't learnt how to send out … [Read more...] about Irish Computer Society Don’t Know How To Use Email
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Budget 2007 Spikes Bandwidth
INEX, which is the Irish neutral exchange, increased its bandwidth capacity in advance of yesterday's budget, but the spike in traffic may have been greater than some of the ISPs were expecting.Have a look at this week's traffic graph:Seemingly some of the ISPs connections into the exchange were maxed out during the peak! … [Read more...] about Budget 2007 Spikes Bandwidth
Camtasia Studio For Free
Free is good. When it's a nice bit of software it's more than good - it's excellent!Camtasia Studio, which is really handy for doing screen captures, is currently available for free. Simply download the software here and then go here to get a keyI grabbed a copy a few minutes ago and I've already received the key.More info here … [Read more...] about Camtasia Studio For Free
Amazon Goes Live on INEX
For the geekier of you who maybe using Amazon's web services the news that Amazon is now peering with several Irish providers at INEX may come as good news!You can check the peering matrix hereAs I'm running several sites that pull quite a bit of data in from Amazon's backend this is good news !EDIT: I meant to link to Paul's blog post … [Read more...] about Amazon Goes Live on INEX
IPv6 Adoption Roundtable at ICANN
At the ICANN meeting this afternoon in LA IPv6 is a hot topic.The SSAC open meeting's agenda includes both a study of hardware support for ipv6 and the roundtable I'm currently sitting in at. The roundtable includes Vint Cerf and representatives from a very wide range of backgrounds. The kind of questions being asked are fundamental.How can promoted v6?How can they promote … [Read more...] about IPv6 Adoption Roundtable at ICANN