Dive into Mark writes about the iPad:
Once upon a time, Apple made the machines that made me who I am. I became who I am by tinkering. Now it seems they’re doing everything in their power to stop my kids from finding that sense of wonder.
Paul Vixie on the proposed EDNS0 extension to:
allow Authoritative Nameservers to return varying replies based upon the network address of the client that initiated the query rather than of the client's Recursive Resolver.
His response?
if we're going to add client identity to the query, can we do so in a more general way? i'd like to know lat-long, country, isp, language, and adult/child. and the ip address should be multiprotocol, covering ipv6.
More from Paul Vixie on What DNS Is Not:
The Internet economy rewards unlimited creativity in the monetization of human action, and fairly often this takes the form of some kind of intermediation. For DNS, monetized intermediation means lying.
Bacula released version 5.0.0, including file deduplication using base jobs (project #6).
Off to go craft a budget for next year.
