A Federal judge in Seattle has held that IP Addresses are not personal information. Â The argument states that to be personally identifying, it must identify a person, but IP Addresses identify a computer. What does that mean for the average joe? Â An IP Address is the network equivalent of a telephone number. Â It is not […]
5/7/09 9:09:34 AM /usr/sbin/ocspd[18764] starting 5/7/09 9:15:56 AM /usr/sbin/ocspd[18774] starting 5/7/09 9:31:07 AM /usr/sbin/ocspd[18820] starting From the Man pages, OCSPD is responsible for (security) Certificate Revocation List & Online Certificate Status Protocol responses. In other words, it handles the heavy lifting portion of the security management for Mac OS X 10.4+. OCSP is an internet protocol […]
David Pogue has an article out regarding Spammers today… Quite entertaining, but I think he missed something…. Take a look at his article first… You Can’t Spell “Bad” Without Spelling “Ad” And here’s my reply… David, You’re usually right on it, but I think you missed something here… The spammers are *NOT* trying to get […]
Time Warner DOCSIS 3.0 upgrade to only involve NYC: “At an earnings conference on Wednesday, Time Warner Cable COO Landel Hobbs said that the cable provider will begin using the newer, multi-channel DOCSIS 3.0 standard to provide Internet and data access to homes and businesses this summer, although it will be limited to New York […]
Cablevision offers 101Mbps, cap-free Internet: “Cablevision on Tuesday claimed the title of the fastest cable Internet provider in the US by launching Optimum Online Ultra. By using the newer multi-channel DOCSIS 3.0 standard, the carrier promises a peak of 101Mbps downstream and a still-fast 15Mbps upstream. The service is theoretically twice as fast as Comcast’s […]
Technologizer is checking back, and seeing what happened to the Top 15 Web Properties of April, 1999? As I quietly lamented (or at least noted) the impending death of GeoCities today, I wanted to double-check my memory that it was once one of the very largest sites on the Web. Yup–ten years ago, in April 1999, […]
Open Street Map, is a FOSS version of an internet based map… (ala Google Maps). OpenStreetMap is a free editable map of the whole world. OpenStreetMap allows you to view, edit and use geographical data in a collaborative way from anywhere on Earth. OpenStreetMap A quick examination showed my region of the globe, without any […]
Indigo 4.0 We’re happy to announce the immediate availability of Indigo 4.0. See below for a list of new features. New features: Indigo 4.0 now comes in 2 flavors: Pro and Lite. Pro is basically everything: all features of 3.0 plus the new features. Lite is a less expensive version that has some high-end features […]