quarta-feira, 27 de abril de 2011

Are you Ready?

Email da AT&T... 10+ anos depois do esperado.

As you may already be aware, an important milestone is about to occur in the marketplace. The global inventory of IPv4 internet addresses is nearing exhaustion and eventually there will be no IPv4 addresses available to assign to end-users. The industry has been planning for this event for several years and is transitioning to a new addressing protocol, IPv6. This is an industry-wide transition that is not specific to AT&T.

This letter is to tell you about AT&T Hosting & Application Services efforts toward making our Internet Data Centers (IDCs) IPv6-ready and to encourage you to start planning now for your transition to IPv6. If you prepare now, you can take the steps necessary to allow uninterrupted access to your website during the transition.

Because IPv4 and IPv6 are not automatically compatible with each other, a dual-stack environment allows IPv4 and IPv6 to co-exist in the same devices and networks. AT&T is enabling IDC locations for dual-stack capability, starting with the "frontend" internet connectivity into the IDCs. We are also working with our suppliers to validate that the technologies we use in our Managed Hosting and Applications Services are ready for IPv6.

The IPv4 protocol is expected to remain in use alongside IPv6 for many years to come. Beginning in the 4th quarter of 2011, AT&T Hosting & Application Services will support customer requests to dual-stack existing IDC environments, via change orders. In many cases, new IPv6 address space assignments and configuration changes to your existing environment will complete the transition to dual-stack.

In some cases, your older hardware, and application software may not be IPv6 compatible, in which case a technical refresh will be necessary for your environment to accept IPv6 traffic.

Here's a link to a recent news release from AT&T on IPv6 Preparation.


Please contact your AT&T Account Team if you need any assistance with your IPv6 planning or readiness assessment.

segunda-feira, 18 de abril de 2011

Hawaii, Land of Surf & Sunshine

quarta-feira, 13 de abril de 2011

Pérolas da Dona Inês parte 1 (ou "O Retiro do Seu Manolo")

Dona Inês(*) mora nos EUA há mais de trinta anos, deixou o Brasil para trás junto com Seu Manolo(*), um espanhol encantado com as belezas do Guarujá, litoral de São Paulo. Há cinco anos eles tem um mercadinho (grocery), que funciona como uma loja de conveniência para a vizinhança.

Seu Manolo é trilingue, fluente inclusive nos sotaques brasileiros. Dona Inês... bom, a D. Inês esqueceu-se da língua Portuguesa. Ficou para trás num passado muito, muito distante. Para garantir que eu não vou me esquecer das pérolas da D. Inês, eis a primeira de uma série.

A de hoje é sobre o retiro do Seu Manolo. Dona Inês estava me explicando que compraram a vendinha com o dinheiro do retiro do seu Manolo. "Retiro, como assim?" perguntei, imaginando talvez um passado iogue do espanhol. Dona Inês me explicou que eles compraram com o dinheiro de quando ele "se retirou". "Se retirou de onde?" insisti ainda confuso. Eu sei que às vezes é melhor não perguntar, mas no caso preferi perder os amigos à piada. A ficha demorou para cair, o retiro do seu Manolo é conhecido como aposentadoria... ou retirement na língua do Shakespeare. Ah tá, enquanto isso Machado de Assis dá voltas no túmulo com mais um atentado ao vernáculo!

(*) Seu Manolo, ou Manolito, bem como a Dona Inês na vida real tem outros nomes.

“Bullying” contra o Português

Excelente artigo de Luis Antonio Giron publicado na Revista Epoca:

http://revistaepoca.globo.com/Revista/Epoca/0,,EMI225334-15230,00.html

terça-feira, 12 de abril de 2011

Man with a Moving Camera


"Infinite technical possibilities, we know all about them right now, but just imagine having being a man or woman with a movie camera in 1929", Sarah Fishko for WNYC.
The Dziga Vertov festival runs from April 15th through June 4th at the Museum of Modern Art.

sábado, 9 de abril de 2011

Bureaucracy


bureaucracy |byoŏˈräkrəsē|
noun ( pl. -cies)
a system of government in which most of the important decisions are made by state officials rather than by elected representatives.
a state or organization governed or managed according to such a system.
the officials in such a system, considered as a group or hierarchy.
excessively complicated administrative procedure, seen as characteristic of such a system : the unnecessary bureaucracy in local government.
ORIGIN early 19th cent.: from French bureaucratie, from bureau (see bureau, -cracy ).


quarta-feira, 6 de abril de 2011

Everything must go?

Mais um capítulo, desta vez escrito em mídia digital, do fim das livrarias como conhecemos... Borders Bookstore no East Village.

domingo, 3 de abril de 2011

NPR: How Western Diets Are Making The World Sick

http://www.npr.org/2011/03/24/132745785/how-western-diets-are-making-the-world-sick&sc=nl&cc=es-20110403


March 24, 2011
In an essay published last November in Canada's Maisonneuve journal, physician Kevin Patterson described his experiences working as an internist-intensivist at the Canadian Combat Surgical Hospital in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
One detail he noticed: The Afghan soldiers, police and civilians he treated in Kandahar had radically different bodies from those of the Canadians he took care of back home.
"Typical Afghan civilians and soldiers would have been 140 pounds or so as adults. And when we operated on them, what we were aware of was the absence of any fat or any adipose tissue underneath the skin," Patterson says. "Of course, when we operated on Canadians or Americans or Europeans, what was normal was to have most of the organs encased in fat. It had a visceral potency to it when you could see it directly there."
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sexta-feira, 1 de abril de 2011