It has been announced today that both the AtMeeting and Education 3D Grid administration intend to release a beta land development scheme. The principle behind this move is to drive forward an initiative to increase the number of developers and testers on both grids. As part of this initiative there will be an allowance made for colleges, [...]
Feb
22
2011
22
2011
Jan
19
2011
19
2011
ICANN Post-Cartagena
Interview with ICANN’s CEO & President, Rod Beckstrom, and Chairman of the Board, Peter Dengate Thrush, following the close of ICANN 39 in Cartagena, Colombia. ICANN Press Conference, 6th December 2010. ICANN CEO & President, Rod Beckstrom, and Chairman of the Board, Peter Dengate Thrush.
Nov
8
2010
8
2010
Upgrade of ICMS Backbone Servers
The last of the ICMS backbone servers were upgraded today to use the ext4 filesystem. Prelimilary testing shows that the time required to perform fsck’s has been reduced by almost 90% across the service. All servers will need to run a full filesystem check to reduce the time of subsequent checks. Many servers performed [...]
Oct
30
2010
30
2010
Windows Phone 7
Below is a still from the new advert for windows phone 7. The main idea which Microsoft want to get out there is that the phone is so addictive that you wont be able to put it down no matter what your doing. Have seen the phone in action and it seems to have a [...]
Oct
29
2010
29
2010
Microsoft PDC10 – HTML 5
PDC10 proved to be informative yesterday. Several issues were addressed during this event including a presentation of HTML 5. In geek terms this looks promising and from the outset appears to be a step in the right direction. Some very cool features although noted a few things I have doubts about. How can we put this [...]
Oct
28
2010
28
2010
GNSO Council Meeting (ICANN)
Sitting in on this months council meeting of the Generic Names Supporting Organization tonight. The main issues for this meeting are as follows: GNSO Prioritisation Election Procedures for Council Chair & Vice Chairs Whois Studies Voting Procedures when Councilors are either absent or must abstain Disclosure of Interest Procedures
Oct
27
2010
27
2010
Microsoft Professional Developers Conference
IHRI has an internal policy with allows for the collection and disclosure of certain details relating to senior officers of the organisation. We sometimes disclose such information to members of the public with the overall goal of promoting an open and transparent management process. The European Technology Development Association (ETDA) has announced that Mark Bannon, [...]
Oct
26
2010
26
2010
NCSG Policy Meeting (ICANN)
It has been announced by the European Technology Development Association that Mark Bannon will be attending the NCSG policy meeting today.
Oct
24
2010
24
2010
ETDA Seminar (2010 Summary)
ETDA have reported that this event as a sucess with many benificial outcomes obtained through it. For this seminar the European Technology Development Association decided to focus mainly on the topic of 3-dimensional internet services. For information regarding IDCAS 3D visit www.idcas.org/3D. The implementation of stable 3D technology for the academic sector was discussed in great [...]
Oct
16
2010
16
2010
ICMS / Port 4486 Lecture
Today Mark Bannon provided a lecture on the topic of ICMS. His lecture outlined the history of the project and how he feels it will develop into the future. “Integrated Client Message Service is relatively as concepts go, a new one. Initial development started in late June 2008, this led to an alpha release [...]