The razor business is said to have premiered the following business model: Sell the razor really cheap, but charge a lot for the blades. Seeing the same in IT isn’t unusual, the prime examples are Inkjet printers where the printer is ridiculously cheap, but a new ink cartridge costs almost the same as the printer. […]
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Buying shoes for kids
The feet of kids are delicate things and as a caring parent you’re supposed to make sure that the spawn’s footwear fits his ever-growing feet. Ok, spring is coming and thus the time is near where we can stop using his #24 winter boots and give him “normal” shoes again. So off to the store […]
I’ve written about this already a few times in various IETF / RIPE lists, but it seems to be relevant to the current draft as well, so here is a repeat: According to the usecases draft, SSPs report the public identities of their customers to the registry so that the registry can store the mapping […]
Richard wants feedback, so here it comes. This document is a _lot_ better than -01. Much more consistent. Overall impressions: This is a telco design. Basic bell-head thinking with only some marginal sprinkling of Internet ideas. This is a document which describes how one might carry over the telco provisioning, interconnection and call routing approaches […]
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Windows XP: Doh.
Letzte Woche: Verarschen kann ich mich selber.
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Kafka would be proud
I used to work for KPNQwest, which was a pan-European company. They tried to offer seamless service across Europe (which failed miserably) and tried things like regional service centers. Dealing with Interxion gives me Deja-Vues. They, too, try to offer the same service in all of their Datacenters across Europe. And they, too, have their […]
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Train Tracks
This one started with a plain rounded square and then started to branch out.
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Buying a new TV set
I had hoped to replace my old CRT in a few years when the pace of innovation on the LCD side had settled down, the standards have really established themselves, more HD content feeds are available, and the prices are lower than now. But no, the CRT called it quits a few weeks ago (no […]
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Some thoughts on .tel
Last week Carsten Schiefner talked about .tel at the nic.at Registrartag in Vienna. Now that .tel has finally launched, here are my thoughts on this new TLD: