Monthly Archives: February 2010

The NBN: Tasmania

February 22, 2010 – 21:21

Today I was lucky enough to attend a forum in Hobart run by the Australian Computing Society with the leaders of the three state parties as the panelists. The theme of the forum was the National Broadband Network (NBN), which is a rollout of fibre-to-the-node for most of Tasmania and good wireless access in other [...]

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Streams of Data

February 9, 2010 – 21:48

I’ve written before about my thoughts on social networking websites and the data you want to give them. What I basically said is that they can do whatever the hell they like with the data provided that I’m keeping a careful watch on what data I give them. If I consciously approve it, it should [...]

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Tracking ipv4/ipv6 usage

February 8, 2010 – 16:29

I discovered earlier today that through my trial ipv6 access I am using mostly ipv6 to access Google services. This made me wonder: just how much of my home network’s communication with the outside world is through ipv6 compared with ipv4? I don’t have any results yet, but this is how I’m measuring it using [...]

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