Can a Customer take their IP’s with them?
Exerpt:
There has been a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) issued by state court that customers may take non-portable IP space with them when they leave their provider. Important to realize: THIS TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER HAS BEEN GRANTED, AND IS CURRENTLY IN EFFECT. THIS IS NOT SOMETHING THAT COULD HAPPEN, THIS IS SOMETHING THAT HAS HAPPENED. THERE IS AN ABILITY TO DISSOLVE IT, AND THAT IS WHAT WE ARE TRYING TO DO.
This is a complicated issue and is not as straightforward as the above message seems to insinuate. A colleague comments:
I am following this. It is not as simple as it seems, and in fact two things have not been pointed out yet. a) NAC is being compensated for this. b) As the court affidavit points out, NAC has previous history of blackmailing the client.
Some related information is here
Some protocols/routing daemons:
These people have a product that is MIPS based and very flexible, might be more interesting for than Soekris:
OLSR:
Some really shiny new products are coming out, first there is a nice unit from Pulver here and Daily Wireless mentioned this one from ZyXEL Wireless VoIP devices that are standards compliant (SIP & 801.11g) are going to become an important piece. Next is to see how softphones on PDAs stack up.
Every once and a while someone comes up with a truly useful innovation. Rob Vincent has developed an antenna system that is claimed to double the range of small devices, like UHF/VHF handhelds.
Press Release from URI: http://www.uri.edu/news/releases/?id=2659
Now I really need an excuse to play with this kind of thing. Weave a neural net with Python from IBM DeveloperWorks is very intriguing, now I need to understand it… 
Just came back from a great presentation by Sam Greenblatt of Computer Associates
He was very charismatic but I felt that he chanted the Open Source thing too much. I use Open Source everyday, what does it mean for CA? His topic was CA’s use of Plone and its integration into their management tools.
And Sam needs to blog!
The Globe and Mail has a great tool to help understand the issues being raised this election: Decision2004
It has come to this Canada’s governing is in a sorry state of affairs if investors are betting on the outcome of our elections.
Cool gear of the month: Apple AirPort Express & AirTunes
I’m not sure what the difference between the full blown AirPort and the Express version is, but the AirPort Express supports use as a bridge to extend the range of an AirPort Extreme-based network. (I assume this is WDS.)
From here instructions for convincing syntax highlighting to work with Textile. Need to implement that pronto.
As I mentioned on Thursday, I was out camping this weekend. We had great weather, the food turned out well (except for the pancakes, which were terrible) and everyone enjoyed themselves.
Notes:
1. maple syrup
1. more oil
1. bannock works, experiment with it
I really need to get a digital camera.
As it is important for us all to notice, particulary those far too young to remember, that today is an important date in human history; please take a moment to reflect.
Bad news for someone: Hotmail incinerates customer files | CNET News.com Now please, please, take your email seriously and get a for-pay account somewhere? And also, backup all your email to optical media of some kind. Regularly!
Jeff Pulver is meeting with people from LocustWorld: The Jeff Pulver Blog: Wireless Mess for VoIP… I can’t wait to hear what he has to say. Mesh networking is one of the most disruptive technologies on the horizon. I has the potential to really empower us all.
So Jeff, please take the time to write down your thoughts on this! (And, BTW, I thoroughly enjoyed your presentation in Ottawa.)
Hot off the heels of confirming that it would open source Solaris, Sun has now semi-officially spoken about the Java platform:
Sun to open-source Java
I’m off tomorrow morning for what I’m sure will be a terrific weekend of relaxation!
My good friends, Cristina and I are headed to Gatineau Park. Lac Lapêche has great canoe accessible sites.
Just finished preparing all the grub. It is going to be good! Got my Bannock mix ready.
After some deliberation, I’ve settled on WordPress for my blogging needs. It mostly came down to ease of use, since I realized that I simply was not producing anything of interest and that the smoothest solution would help this.
On my list of additions is still a Wiki, with integration into my blog posts. Any ideas?