LLU Line Share finally a reasonable price in Ireland
(Line Share allows other operators to rent just the internetty part of the line, without having to take the phoney part.)
ComReg set it to 77c in August of last year and Eircom, predictably, appealed. The case is now settled, and the 77c price stands. For once ComReg didn't wet themselves on the courthouse steps and run away crying like a little girl. Or did they? What did Eircom get out of it?
Google Public DNS
Could spell trouble for OpenDNS. I'm jealous of their netblocks.
Google Public DNS is a free, global Domain Name System (DNS) resolution service, that you can use as an alternative to your current DNS provider.
To try it out:
- Configure your network settings to use the IP addresses 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 as your DNS servers or
- Read our configuration instructions.
If you decide to try Google Public DNS, your client programs will perform all DNS lookups using Google Public DNS.
Cad é an Gaeilge do spam?
Good god, I just received spam from a Chinese electronic goods firm as Gaeilge. Looks like someone's having great fun with Google Translate. Had they not heard of Babelfish?
Dia duit, a chara
Is é do thoil logh linn chun cur isteach do time.We lómhar a Tai company.This Pingyang ar company.one leictreonach de na mórdhíoltóirí is mó trádála idirnáisiúnta i China.We den chuid is mó a dhíol táirgí leictreacha, amhail ríomhairí glúine, tv LCD, ceamara, soghluaiste, Mp4, agus mar sin de.
Is féidir linn a thairiscint ar chaighdeán ard agus praghas iomaíoch, agus na táirgí go léir a thagann le baránta idirnáisiúnta. Má tá tú am, le do thoil tabhair cuairt ar ár láithreán gréasáin:
Hosting365 loses ICANN Accreditation
Over 28k? Absolutely bizarre. I wonder is it actually Hosting365, or is it misdirected mail for Register365. They only have 900-1000 domains, which hardly seems worth accrediting for in the first place. (Accreditation costs $2.5k up front, $4k a year, $1-2k a quarter, plus 20c per domain; so it ain't cheap.)
ICANN: Section 3.9 of the RAA requires registrars to timely pay accreditation fees to ICANN, consisting of yearly and variable fees. Hosting365 currently owes ICANN $28,089.20 in past due accreditation fees. Notices regarding Hosting365’s past due accreditation fees, including detailed customer statements, were transmitted to Hosting365 several times over the past year.
On 20 April 2009, ICANN sent Hosting365 a notice of breach of RAA based on Hosting365’s failure to pay past due accreditation fees. Hosting365 failed to cure this breach in the time period allowed by the RAA.
Based on Hosting365’s failure to cure the breach of Section 3.9, and in accordance with Section 5.3 of the RAA, ICANN hereby gives Hosting365 notice that Hosting365’s accreditation will terminate on 4 January 2010.
Pirate Bay Bought Out?
This is all over the news today. Sounds to a bad April 1 prank, have the lads their dates mixed up?
The Pirate Bay has been (effectively) acquired by a gaming company called Global Gaming Factory X, who is plunking down nearly $8 million for the privilege. Their grand, surprising plan for the Pirate Bay is to pay content providers. Seriously.
via Gizmodo.
Alan Ralsky & Scott Bradley plead guilty to stock fraud
Holy god, I never thought I'd see the day. The names won't be familiar to most, but these are two of the biggest guys in spam.
Alan M. Ralsky, 64, of West Bloomfield, Mich., and Scott K. Bradley, 38, also of West Bloomfield, both pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, mail fraud and to violate the CAN-SPAM Act. Ralsky and Bradley also pleaded guilty to wire fraud, money laundering, and violating the CAN-SPAM Act. Under the terms of his plea agreement, Ralsky acknowledges he is facing up to 87 months in prison and a $1 million fine under the federal sentencing guidelines while Bradley acknowledges that he is facing up to 78 months in prison and a $1 million fine under the federal sentencing guidelines.
Opera Unite
While I won't assign it the "reinvention of the web" tag others are giving it quite yet, Opera Unite is something new in a space where we really don't see truly fresh things very often. In a nutshell, it's a mashup of "traditional" web services, peer-to-peer, and your browser; in more detail, it's locally hosted file sharing and communications, with the following services out of the box:
- Media Sharing / Player
- File Sharing
- Web Server
- Photo Sharing
- Messaging ("Fridge")
- Chat ("Lounge")
Yes, we can install all those services on our own computers - many of us have done for years - but the social aspect makes them all much more accessible. It's a bit clunky now, but in time - particularly if they hook up with Facebook Connect or similar - you'll be able to find people and help people find you, and take complete control of your services.
I like this. I won't use it right now because I couldn't possibly move away from the browser I've created out of Firefox, but when it comes out of beta I could well switch over. I like control over my data, and Unite gives it to me.
Blackout Ireland Avatars
Didn't really fancy the one on the Blackout Ireland site, so I made one of my own for Foot.ie. a few size variants below.
If you haven't been paying attention, this is happening in protest against Eircom's capitulation to the Irish Recorded Music Association attempts to censor the Irish Internet. You can read more about the subject here.
Google Analytics script 97% slower at peak in Europe
According to Pingdom, performance in Europe is significantly worse than Stateside. Lets hope AdSense performs better. Beef up that European infrastructure Google!
And webmasters, make sure that script is at the bottom of your pages, not the top!
As you can see, loading the GA script from North America is overall a bit slower than loading it from Europe. On the other hand, while the European load times are significantly faster on average than the North American ones, the performance is much more uneven over the course of the day.
The difference between the maximum and minimum load times for North America is 27%, but in Europe the difference is 97%.
Palm Pre
[This has been in my drafts since January 9, only noticed it now. It does have a motion sensor and landscape mode btw.]
The wife'll kill me, I want one of these and I only have my Treo Pro a couple months.
It seems to settle a major deficiency in the Treo Pro, namely Windows Mobile. It's not a bad mobile OS per se, but the hardware is a tad underpowered for it, and it has niggles that can't be addressed because of it's closed nature. That said, I don't know if the Pre's webOS will be open either, but hopefully Palm will have generated Clue from their Windows adventure. And drop it forevermore...
One other apparent deficiency would appear to be a motion sensor and/or landscape mode. You'd think that if it had it, the presenter in these PC Pro videos - well worth watching by the way - would have demoed it; although it has to be said that despite best effort, he's no Steve Jobs and might have been better off deferring to someone with more charisma.
(Via Slashdot.)
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