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OpenDaylight Summit brings together users, developers and the SDN community to discuss, debate and demonstrate the latest technologies and trends in open networking.
The OpenDayLight Summit was Hands down one of the best coordinated, decorated, and fed events. Always a winner with IT pros.
After walking the floor, we sat in on some sessions to absorb as much information as we could… Which left us a little hungry
How OpenDayLight enables little guys to compete with the big networking Enterprises, and historic collaboration in the Telco Industry that OpenDayLight is driving

Interview with Neela Jacques (Executive Director of OpenDayLight)

Neela Jacques (Executive Director) | OpenDaylight

As OpenDaylight’s executive director, Nicolas “Neela” Jacques works with the OpenDaylight community to advance SDN and NFV with a developer-driven open source platform for products and technologies that expand the intelligence, programmability and performance of network infrastructures. He oversees and provides guidance for all aspects of the project, from governance and technology to community and marketing and reports to the OpenDaylight board of directors.

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OpenDayLight Platform

A community-led, open, industry-supported platform, consisting of code and blueprints for accelerating adoption of SDN, and fostering new innovation.

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Desktop App PickModem Manager GUI

Many people have written in and asked “how did you get your modem in your thinkpad to work” This is the software needed to activate the modem under linux

Modem Manager GUI is frontend for ModemManager daemon able to control specific modem functions.

Main features:

GTK3 interface
Send and receive SMS messages with messages concatenation
Send USSD request and receive answer in system encoding
Get modem and SIM information (Device info, Operator name, Mode, IMEI, IMSI/ESN, Signal level)
Scan available mobile networks
Control data transmission process and set session traffic and time limits
WAN Modem: Sierra EM7455

Spotlight

Ring

Talked about before, formally SFLPhone.

Ring is free software for universal communication which respects freedoms and privacy of its users.

Powered Linux Unplugged Last Tuesday

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Kodi boxes are now a key target in the UK government’s piracy crackdown

It’s an international racket, according to the government’s Intellectual Property Office (IPO) annual crime report.

Piracy fighters battle Kodi ‘epidemic’ – BBC News

“This is becoming an epidemic,” Kieron Sharp, director general of Fact, told the BBC.

“If you are not paying for Sky, BT or one of the pay-TV providers for your subscription channels, you are clearly in possession of an illegal box.”

UK IP Crime Report 2016 Reveals IPTV/Kodi Piracy as Growing Threat – TorrentFreak

The UK’s IP Crime Report 2015/16 has just been published, revealing infringement trends gathered from both governmental and private anti-piracy groups. This year in the online piracy sector IPTV/Kodi, torrent sites and stream ripping are seen as the main threats.

Meanwhile, the report reveals that pirating Internet subscribers will be receiving warning letters before the end of the year.

Sale of Kodi ‘fully-loaded’ streaming boxes faces legal test – BBC News

Middlesbrough trader Brian Thompson appeared in court, accused of selling equipment that “facilitated the circumvention” of copyright protection measures.

Add-on:Jupiter Broadcasting – Official Kodi Wiki

Purism Is Still Hoping To Build A GNU/Linux Free Software Librem Smartphone – Phoronix

Purism, the startup behind the Librem laptops with a focus on free software and user privacy/freedom, still has their minds set on coming up with a GNU/Linux smartphone.

Librem Phone preliminary survey – Purism

This phone will be based around these tenets, coherent with our philosophy:

Free Software with a bona fide GNU+Linux stack (not Android)
Protecting your privacy
Digital security
Avoiding corporate wiretapping
Freedom-respecting hardware
Starting with the essentials and evolving the product offering through its software and infrastructure
Releasing the schematics of the hardware, encouraging participation at all levels and allowing you to independently audit the integrity of your hardware
Breaking the cycle of planned obsolescence imposed by most manufacturers

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Name: Nehemiah D.

Subject: Zoho vs Zurmo

Message: Noah mentioned Zoho CRM, and I didn’t see that it was open source. Odoo is open source and beautiful. Consider it.

I didn’t reccomend Zoho I said https://zurmo.org/

Name: Gordan

Subject: Heads up on QNAP before you Dive in

Message: Hi Chris ‘n’ Noah

Just listened to this week’s LAS and my ears pricked up when I heard your enthusiasm for an upcoming QNAP device you are getting for review. Thought I would drop you a line with my experience of using their kit. We have three of their rackmount TS series NAS units (2 x 8 disk and 1 x 4 disk devices). We used them for relatively inexpensive archive storage as well as an onsite backup device and an off-site replication copy. Primary storage is on DELL iSCSI SANs.

We used them with 6TB WD Reds until recently after losing data on them for around the 20th time
Quite regularly the volumes would drop offline despite the disks showing as healthy. Typically QNAP support would log into the devices and run an FSCK repair which would take several days. Sometimes this would work and sometimes it wouldn’t, requiring us to completely rebuild the units and restore data to them.
Earlier this year we replaced the first unit with a thrown together FreeNas box. We noticed an instant improvement in performance and it hasn’t faltered once. We have since replaced the other two backup devices with similar improvements and have just replaced one of the Dell iSCSI SANs with a FreeNas box which out-performs the Dell with much cheaper disks.
My current project I have just built a Proxmox cluster with a full SSD FreeNas and 10Gbe iSCSI interconnects. It boots to a Windows 2012 server desktop in 2 seconds! (Not my choice of OS but obviously it does Linux really well too).

Hope my experience of QNAP will encourage you to be cautious with any data you trust them with.

Keep up the sterling work!
Gordon

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The Internet’s Humble Beginnings | Tech Talk Today 31

chris — Wed, 23 Jul 2014 09:26:38 +0000

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We look back at how the Internet was born, from its humble beginnings and clunky interfaces to the first podcaster and creator of Internet Radio.

Plus who created the first packet switching network, developed TCP/IP and why.

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ARPANET – Advanced Research Projects Agency Network

The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) was one of the world’s first operational packet switching networks, the first network to implement TCP/IP, and the progenitor of what was to become the global Internet. The network was initially funded by the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA, later DARPA) within the U.S. Department of Defense for use by its projects at universities and research laboratories in the US. The packet switching of the ARPANET, together with TCP/IP, would form the backbone of how the Internet works. The packet switching was based on concepts and designs by American engineer Paul Baran, Welsh scientist Donald Davies [1][2] and Lawrence Roberts of the Lincoln Laboratory.[3] The TCP/IP communication protocols were developed for ARPANET by computer scientists Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf, and also incorporated some designs from Louis Pouzin.

Happy birthday, Mosaic: 21 years of the graphical web browsert

Mosaic was the first truly popular web browser.

That’s not to say that Mosaic was easy to use. It wasn’t. In the early to mid 1990s, simply getting on the internet was still something of a black art. Windows, for example, didn’t natively support the internet’s fundamental protocol, TCP/IP, until Windows 95 appeared. If you wanted TCP/IP on Windows before that, you needed to use the arcane but absolutely vital Trumpet Winsocket program, and find an internet service provider (ISP).

NeXT Computers’ Role In the Creation of the Web Browser

A NeXT Computer and its object oriented development tools and libraries were used by Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau at CERN to develop the world’s first web server software, CERN HTTPd, and also used to write the first web browser, WorldWideWeb.

Gopher protocol

The Gopher protocol /ˈ ɡ oʊ f ər / is a TCP/IP application layer protocol designed for distributing, searching, and retrieving documents over the Internet. The Gopher protocol was strongly oriented towards a menu-document design and presented an alternative to the World Wide Web in its early stages, but ultimately HTTP became the dominant protocol. The Gopher ecosystem is often regarded as the effective predecessor of the World Wide Web.

How Did Internet Radio Start?

Carl Malamud founded the first Internet-only radio station, The Internet Multicasting Service (IMS), in 1993. IMS broadcasted from offices at the National Press Club Building in Washington, D.C. A non-profit organization, IMS depended largely on charitable contributions for its budget.

IMS started broadcasting in 1994, offering several hours of weekly programs including a “Geek of the Week” interview feature, an audio feed from Monitor Radio and CBC News, speeches from the floor of Congress and performances from the Kennedy Center. IMS later expanded to include an online presence for groups ranging from the National Press Club to the Red Sage Restaurant and City Lights Books.

Like many other Internet offerings, IMS pushed the limits of public access to government information by offering patent documents and filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission online and at no charge. By 1995, IMS expanded its offerings and broadcast 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Unfortunately, in 1996, IMS shut down. Visitors to the IMS web page will see broadcast concluded because “we finished our work and disbanded on April 1, 1996.” Malamud said the organization had run out of money and he wanted to get back to working on the net. “Now there are craftsmen out there who know their tools much better than I do,” Malamud said in an interview with John Schwartz. But IMS made its mark on the Internet. By the time it disbanded, Internet radio stations were numerous and many more would arrive.

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Retro Tech: Pointcast | Tech Talk Today 10

chris — Tue, 17 Jun 2014 09:30:10 +0000

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In this special edition of Tech Talk Today we look back at Pointcast. A fascinating look back at an earlier generation of the Internet, before RSS feeds and news aggregator sites, there was Pointcast.

Based on the idea of “pushing” news to your computer at scheduled intervals, and this displaying that news via a built in screen saver and reader application.

By the end of 1996, PointCast’s network boasted 1.5 million users, $5 million in annual revenue, and a list of marquee advertisers. The company had attracted more than $48 million in funding

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43. Pointcast — The 50 Worst Internet Startup Fails of All Time

Pointcast basically amounted to a screensaver that displayed breaking news. The product often required more bandwidth than dial-up connections would allow at the time and was totally impractical for corporate networks. Despite its shortfalls, News Corporation made a $450M offer to purchase the company’s technology. Pointcast’s then-CEO Christopher Hasset balked at the deal and was immediately ousted by the company’s board of directors. The company botched another deal to be acquired by an investment group that included Microsoft and was later purchased for $7 million before its network was shut down.

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NSA SSLeaze | TechSNAP 127

chris — Thu, 12 Sep 2013 16:59:20 +0000

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A mobile provider is hacked, customer records are breached, and the authorities suspect it was an inside job, we’ll share the details.

Then we’ll discuss the NSA induced crisis of trust we now collectively share, plus your questions, our answers, and much much more!

On this week’s TechSNAP!

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Vodafone Germany breached, possibly by insiders

The internal servers of Vodafone Germany were compromised, and data for over 2 million customers was stolen
The breach only disclosed information on German customers, who will be notified by mail
The way the attackers managed to compromise the servers suggest they had help from an insider
Vodafone turned their evidence over to German police, “An individual has been identified by the police and their assets have been seized.”
Compromised data:
customer names
address
gender
birth date
bank account numbers and bank sort codes
Other data including phone numbers, credit card numbers and passwords are currently thought to be safe. “No personal call information or browsing data was accessed by the attacker”
The attack was originally discovered on September 5th, however Police asked the company to withhold the notification while they executed their investigation and made arrests and seizures
“German news agency DPA reported that the suspect had worked for a contractor of the company and was not a Vodafone employee”
Additional Coverage
Vodafone is advising customers to be on the lookout for targeted Phishing scams that might use the personal information gained from this attack to make successful attacks against the victims and their banking and credit card accounts
eu data breach notification law

Trust

You can buy a 2 letter domain name like IG.com sells for $4.7 million – Or you can buy your .com from GoDaddy for $1.99

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