Re: Wired access to SMS?

2012-10-09 Thread steve pirk [egrep]
Have you looked at Google Voice much? I have mine set up to SMS all my devices, including email delivery, and can enable/disable devices as needed. The big benefit, is that I have an inbox full of all my old inbound and outbound text messages. It might be that I am missing a key element, but it

Re: Wired access to SMS?

2012-10-09 Thread steve pirk [egrep]
is keeping Google from releasing the product to a broader audience, e.g. more countries than the US. On Oct 9, 2012 3:25 PM, TJ trej...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 5:47 PM, William Herrin b...@herrin.us wrote: On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 5:05 PM, steve pirk [egrep] st...@pirk.com wrote

Re: Fyi...

2012-08-01 Thread steve pirk [egrep]
On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 12:50 PM, Robert Mathews (OSIA) math...@hawaii.eduwrote: It it is of interest... https://www.change.org/petitions/from-educause-higher-ed-wireless-networking-admin-group I was not aware of this limitation. Android and other Chrome devices do not have issues like

Re: FYI Netflix is down

2012-07-11 Thread steve pirk [egrep]
On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Dave Hart daveh...@gmail.com wrote: We continue to investigate why these connections were timing out during connect, rather than quickly determining that there was no route to the unavailable hosts and failing quickly. potential translation: We continue to

Re: FYI Netflix is down

2012-07-08 Thread steve pirk [egrep]
On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Ryan Malayter malay...@gmail.com wrote: Doing it the right way makes the cloud far less cost-effective and far less agile. Once you get it all set up just so, change becomes very difficult. All the monitoring and fail-over/fail-back operations are generally

Re: FYI Netflix is down

2012-07-01 Thread steve pirk [egrep]
On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 11:38 AM, Jay Ashworth j...@baylink.com wrote: Not entirely. Datacenters do go down, our best efforts to the contrary notwithstanding. Amazon doesn't guarantee you redundancy on EC2, only the tools to provide it yourself. 25% Amazon; 75% service provider clients;

Re: Verisign deep-hacked. For months.

2012-02-05 Thread steve pirk [egrep]
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 16:42, Zaid Ali z...@zaidali.com wrote: That part is ambiguous at the moment since Verisign has not released details. Symantec has bought the SSL part of the business and claim that the SSL acquired network is not compromised. Sounds like lots of assumptions being

Google+ now available for Google Apps domains

2011-10-27 Thread steve pirk [egrep]
Y'all ragged on me because Google+ was only available to gmail users... Well, now you can enable it for your users from the control panel on your Google Apps domains... Google Apps administrators can manually turn on Google+http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?answer=1631744 for their

Re: Facebook insecure by design

2011-10-26 Thread steve pirk [egrep]
On Oct 24, 2011 7:55 AM, Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: You can even download it all and erase yourself if you want out. Don't count on it. You may 'disappear' from public view, but that does not necessarily mean the data is truely 'gone'.

Re: Facebook insecure by design

2011-10-23 Thread steve pirk [egrep]
Just about everything on Google pages is https these days, even search if you enable it. If anybody on this thread uses gmail com a you really ought to take a look at google plus. Compare the way user privacy is the primary objective, versus the share everything by default of facebook. I cannot

Re: Facebook insecure by design

2011-10-23 Thread steve pirk [egrep]
be that I am off base. On Oct 23, 2011 4:04 PM, Jay Ashworth j...@baylink.com wrote: - Original Message - From: Jeroen Massar jer...@unfix.org On 2011-10-23 19:43 , steve pirk [egrep] wrote: Just about everything on Google pages is https these days, even search if you enable

Re: Facebook insecure by design

2011-10-23 Thread steve pirk [egrep]
be that a Googler saw Lauren's post and the debate has already started. -steve On Oct 23, 2011 4:04 PM, Jay Ashworth j...@baylink.com wrote: - Original Message - From: Jeroen Massar jer...@unfix.org On 2011-10-23 19:43 , steve pirk [egrep] wrote: Just about everything on Google pages is https

Re: [outages] News item: Blackberry services down worldwide

2011-10-12 Thread steve pirk [egrep]
Found this posting: Blackberry down. Research in Motion (RIM) sent the following e-mail to all clients: To: All Blackberry Clients Please be advised that Research in Motion (RIM) is experiencing world-wide connectivity issues affecting email flow to and from all Blackberries. RIM has not

Re: Were A record domain names ever limited to 23 characters?

2011-10-11 Thread steve pirk [egrep]
other CCTLDs. Therefore, it was not internet wide, though I will admit that it did cover most of the widely known gTLDs. Owen On Oct 7, 2011, at 4:45 PM, steve pirk [egrep] wrote: It turns out it was an artificial limitation on Network Solution's part. Being the only registrar

Y'all know Google is offering public DNS services now?

2011-10-10 Thread steve pirk [egrep]
I saw this in a post from Travis Wise of Google yesterday. Pretty cool for those users who do not want to use their ISP's name servers, or just want to have dns resolve quickly from anywhere in the world. In either case, I think it is cool ;-] http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/ Here is the

Re: Y'all know Google is offering public DNS services now?

2011-10-10 Thread steve pirk [egrep]
Wow, consider me educated on old news. LOL I imagine it is new to many of the users on the new service they launched. I completely forgot that Nanog would probably be the first to comment and chime in when it first became available. Thanks for the information. I will definitely research the CDN

Re: Were A record domain names ever limited to 23 characters?

2011-10-07 Thread steve pirk [egrep]
:54:38 PM steve pirk [egrep] wrote: I seem to recollect back the 1999 or 2000 times that I was unable to register a domain name that was 24 characters long. Shortly after that, I heard that the character limit had been increased to like 128 characters, and we were able to register the name

Re: Were A record domain names ever limited to 23 characters?

2011-10-07 Thread steve pirk [egrep]
It turns out it was an artificial limitation on Network Solution's part. Being the only registrar at the time, it was pretty much internet wide at that point, contrary to the RFC spec. What was so funny was that someone got Internic/Network Solutions to up the limit. Apparently just to save some

Re: Were A record domain names ever limited to 23 characters?

2011-09-30 Thread steve pirk [egrep]
at 02:54:38PM -0700, steve pirk [egrep] wrote: I seem to recollect back the 1999 or 2000 times that I was unable to register a domain name that was 24 characters long. Shortly after that, I heard that the character limit had been increased to like 128 characters, and we were able to register

Re: Google DNS just disappeared

2011-07-18 Thread steve pirk [egrep]
If you want to be able to ask Googlers directly on issues like this, you might try Google+. I am trying to spam, it is just that they are all available on there. Here is something Scoble posted the other day: I just spent an hour talking with a Google exec about + and I came away with a few

Re: Post positive reviews

2010-12-22 Thread steve pirk [egrep]
Is this spam? ;-] I have been doing a lot of playing with Google Places and the new HotPot user ranking/review product, and for once, you get an honest list of reviews by local people. Only Google account holders can post reviews in the by Google users section. I believe they also have to have a

Re: dark fiber

2010-02-11 Thread steve pirk [egrep]
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 08:21, Jess Cohen j...@corenap.com wrote: GOOGLE: Dark fiber is optical fiber infrastructure (cabling and repeaters) that is currently in place but is not being used. Optical fiber conveys information in the form of light pulses so the dark means no light pulses are