Robert Cringely (in his new blog format) talks about IPV6 as the way the world is moving. Most particularly how China has moved to IPV6 as a way of escaping the addressing constraints imposed by the limited amount of addresses it was allocated using IPV4.

As a result this a federally mandated move afoot to move the US to IPV6 which has cost implications for backbones based on ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode).

There is a huge opportunity for Ireland to steal a march on our natural competitors in the IT space (India, Rumania etc.) by moving to an IPV6 platform. We are small enough that the costs would not be huge and we could reap several significant benefits,

• Clearly identify ourselves as a global technology leader
• Create invaluable IPV6 expertise in Ireland that can be exported overseas
• Create an environment for where companies with technology based around IPV6 can thrive
• Create an environment where startups can grow based around the IPV6 expertise garnered during the conversion process

Who do we call to get this started?
IPV6 tutorial gives the dirty details.

Just moving back to Firefox 1.5 after two days of frustrating hanging with FireFox 2.0. Even after removing all my extensions it still “white screens” after a few minutes browsing.

Shame, Shame!

I downloaded Hamachi today. What is hamachi? A very simple, secure way to connect a group of PCs together in a shared, private network. Its very slick, has good installation help and works just as expected.

Now we can all connect together and also connect with our (small number) of PCs and servers that live in the office.

You create a network, members join the network by entering a password and once they are on the network you have as access to their machine in an identical fashion to a machine on the same subnet. You can also access a web-server if they happen to have one running.

Its another piece of the jigsaw that includes hosted subversion, hosted servers, hosted email and calendar and hosted DNS management.

Via SiliconRepublic.com, news that you can check if you are registered to vote in Ireland with www.checktheregister.ie.

It allows you to enter you details and it searches the register for your council area. If your not found you can either fill in a,

• Application for Registration (cunningly called an RFA form) if you have never registered before
• Application for Change of Address (an RFA3 form) if you have registered previously but changed address since then (that’s me)

Full Details of the process can be had at Dublin city council voter information page. There are similar sites reachable from www.checktheregister.ie for the other councils scattered around the country.

Dontcha just love external validation. Robert Sutton also believes in firing the Asshole (see rule 9).

Blog Maverick gives some plausible background information to the Google/YouTube deal. Excellent analysis of the timing of the music deal with the acquisition.

 I know, I know, I’m a corporate shill,  but I liked this sony advert.

Google plays a running defense. Now I don’t want to see a goddamn soul say Xerox or Rollerblades, do you hear!

I’ve used Google’s new Custom Search Engine feature to create a first pass at a Web 2.0 Search Engine for Irish companies. Any can contribute to make it better, so please do.

Its also in the sidebar of this blog.

From Cool Tools, animated lessons on how to tie all kinds of knots. This site is so much better than those utterly useless static diagrams in most sailing books. Using different colour ropes really helps as well.