Business: December 2007 Archives
One of the hot topics at the moment is the exhaustion of ip4 space.
While this may not sound very exciting to "normal" people the impact it could have on you might be quite painful. If ISPs have to pay a heavy premium for more IP space as their networks expand, then the end users may be forced to pay a premium.
Jay Daley, Nominet's CTO, has an interesting post on the Nominet blog about the possible creation of a market in IPv4 space. It's an interesting read and it will be interesting to see how things pan out in the coming 12 - 36 months.
Of course if more ISPs were to start actively using ipv6 then none of this would really matter... I wouldn't hold my breath though, as so much consumer equipment in active use at present isn't compatible
While this may not sound very exciting to "normal" people the impact it could have on you might be quite painful. If ISPs have to pay a heavy premium for more IP space as their networks expand, then the end users may be forced to pay a premium.
Jay Daley, Nominet's CTO, has an interesting post on the Nominet blog about the possible creation of a market in IPv4 space. It's an interesting read and it will be interesting to see how things pan out in the coming 12 - 36 months.
Of course if more ISPs were to start actively using ipv6 then none of this would really matter... I wouldn't hold my breath though, as so much consumer equipment in active use at present isn't compatible
In the runup to the Golden Spiders earlier this year I noticed several complaints about their mailing lists.
Both Peter and Mary Rose complained of having issues getting off the list despite several attempts.
Now it transpires that Mary Rose has not only reported the issue to the data privacy commissioner, but that the commissioner has ruled in her favour and Golden Spiders / Business and Finance will be forced to pay €500 to the charity of her choice.
Good!
If only more people took the time to report abusive emailings like this maybe Irish business would learn how to use email properly
Both Peter and Mary Rose complained of having issues getting off the list despite several attempts.
Now it transpires that Mary Rose has not only reported the issue to the data privacy commissioner, but that the commissioner has ruled in her favour and Golden Spiders / Business and Finance will be forced to pay €500 to the charity of her choice.
Good!
If only more people took the time to report abusive emailings like this maybe Irish business would learn how to use email properly
AIB finally upgraded our company account to use their new system which supports "real" Java and my choice of browser (Firefox).
It seems they have been migrating companies across to the new system over the last few months.
We now all have a little calculator sized "doda" called a "digipass" which basically generates a lot of random numbers.
Downsides
It seems they have been migrating companies across to the new system over the last few months.
We now all have a little calculator sized "doda" called a "digipass" which basically generates a lot of random numbers.
Downsides
- I had to change my password's format again!
- Passwords aren't case sensitive - huh?
- You have to have your digipass with you in order to login
- the digipass is battery powered - I'm betting that the batteries will die on payday
- It supports Firefox
- It uses Java as opposed to the Microsoft Virtual Machine which has been defunct for years
- It should be cross-platform (see above)
- Did I mention that it should be cross-platform?
