VeriSign moves to anycast for root servers

"These are important servers, and we didn't want to make any rash decisions about deploying it." -- Ken Silva, vice president of networks and information security at VeriSign

But apparently it is okay to flip the switch one day on wildcards.. Either that "process" wasn't rash - cuz it's the same servers...

My hero. Who wants to push me?

Plunger acted on impulse'Yeah, I jumped in the falls. It's a long way down.'

It's coming...

v6 - There could be more - but how?

A portable Solaris box on your lap - what is the world coming to?!

Forbes.com: Swimming With Tadpoles

Massachusetts thumbs it's nose at Redmond:

"...Massachusetts has instructed its chief technology officer to adopt a policy of "open standards, open source" for all future spending on information technology"

Australian IT - US state embraces open source

First of all: to be the CTO of a state - awesome! California Chief Technical Officer has a fantastic ring to it. I gotta find me a better headhunter (I wonder how Ah-Nold says 'technology'?).

Second: So this tells me that Mass. is opening itself up to a lawsuit by our friends up at SCO, no? I'd love to see that - fighting IBM, SGI, and now Mass. Fantastic.

"A collection of more than 12 million historic photographs, capturing scenes from the Boer War to the D-Day landings, has been published on the Internet."

You can find the archive here: www.britishpathe.com

You can find the article here..

Half-Life 2 Code Ripped Off

Hacker spoils game for software firm:

"In his posting on HalfLife2.net, Newell, said that the source code was stolen by someone who was able to gain access to his e-mail account in September and install keystroke-logging software on several company computers. Around 9/19 someone made a copy of the HL-2 source tree, he wrote."

The best news that I've EVER been able to post here.

VeriSign calls halt to .com detours | CNET News.com

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