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FiOS Customer Discovers the Limits of “unlimited” Data: 77TB a Month

Yes, Virginia, there is a limit to what Verizon will let you do with FiOS' "unlimited" data plan. And a California man discovered that limit when he got a phone call from a Verizon representative wanting to know what, exactly, he was doing to create more than 50 terabytes of traffic on average per month—hitting a peak of 77TB in March alone.— FiOS customer discovers the limits of “unlimited” data: 77TB a month | Ars Technica  Continue reading ►

Happy World IPv6 Day

Why don't you spend the day investigating how ready you are for IPv6 (you WILL have to embrace it sooner rather than later) and take part in the 24 hour "test flight" being offered by some of the big organisations like Google, Facebook and Yahoo!.  Continue reading ►

Ping(1M) on OpenSolaris Easter Egg

It's amazing what you discover whilst working a weekend shift with a bit of time to spare. Whilst perusing through the shell scripts used as part of the Sun in-house built VPN solution (Oracle are giving it the chop in favour of Cisco SSL AnyConnect client which doesn't officially work on Solaris x86 - it does with the help of openconnect though ;-) ), I discovered a little easter egg in ping(1M).  Continue reading ►

NWAM on snv_135 Lost it's Magic?

Is it just me or has NWAM lost the "M", ie the magic, in snv_135? I've recently updated and whilst the NWAM functionality has apparently been enhanced (there's way more configuration stuff now) and a more functional GUI implemented, for the life of me I can't get it to reliably connect to my home wifi network. I need to poke and prod it to come to life on each boot. Time to go digging to see if I can work out why.  Continue reading ►
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