IPv4 addresses more expensive than .com domains

Microsoft has bought more than half a million IPv4 addresses from the bankrupt Nortel Networks for 7 million dollar. At $11 per address, this is more expensive than a .com domain name. (although one can argue that it is not more expensive than a good .com domain name).
IPv4 free address space is depleted since February.

Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relations with the boss. Each individual vying with the other for power, prestige and position

Douglas McGregor

The system being produced will tend to have a structure that mirrors the structure of the group that is producing it. One should take advantage of this fact and then deliberatly design the group structure so as to achieve the desired system structure.

Conway's law

Belgian ticket shop Olympic Games 2012 down

Belgian tickets for the London Olympic games are sold through an online webshop by Suseia.
The sale started last tuesday night, but could not service the load. It was taken off line and restarted the next morning with doubled capacity. After the relaunch it still had problems and produced all kinds of errors in the sales process.
The site is now taken offline for more than a month to correct the problems.
Suseia does not want to disclose the name of the company that built the shop.
According to a tweet by JF Hovinne, a freelancer and working for Vox Teneo, the site was built with Drupal.

Maven 2.1 site command trouble

The maven site command allows you to generate project documentation, as explained in an earlier post for maven 2.0.

Running  mvn:site with Maven version 2.1, I had some problems however:

1.  site plugin version error
   

   SiteToolException: ArtifactNotFoundException: The skin does not exist: Un able to determine the release version

   Apparently the skin plugin does not install automatically with a version, so force the issue, from the command line:

   $ svn checkout http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/maven/skins/trunk/
   $ cd trunk
   $ mvn install -DupdateReleaseInfo=true

2. doxia ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException
   

   [WARNING] Deprecated API called - not org.apache.maven.doxia.sink.Sink
   instance and no SinkFactory available. Please update this plugin.
   [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
   [ERROR] FATAL ERROR
   [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
   [INFO] 1
   [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
   [DEBUG] Trace
   java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 1
           at org.apache.maven.doxia.module.xhtml.XhtmlSink.tableCell(XhtmlSink.java:791) 

   This error is caused by some maven/module version mismatches.
   To solve this second issue, add a <pluginManagement> element under the build element to set compatible versions. <pluginManagement> has a <plugins> child element. Do not confuse this with the <plugins> child of the <buid> element.
   

   <project>
      ...
      <build>
        <pluginManagement>
            <plugins>
              <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-site-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>2.1.1</version>
                <dependencies>
                  <dependency>
                   <groupId>commons-httpclient</groupId>
                   <artifactId>commons-httpclient</artifactId>
                   <version>3.1</version>
                   <exclusions>
                    <exclusion>
                      <groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
                      <artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
                    </exclusion>
                  </exclusions>
                </dependency>
               </dependencies>
             </plugin>
           </plugins>
       </pluginManagement>
       ...
    </build>
     ...
   </project>
   

    This modification takes care of the exception, and your documentation generation will succeed. The [WARNING]s above, however, will remain.
   

Networking bookmarks (updated)

• TCP/IP Illustrated Vol I (The protocols) / W Richard Stevens
• STD's (Internet Protocal Standards)
• IPv6 adoption and IPv4 depletion
• DNS root servers
• NTP
• NTP server pool Belgium 
• Blueprints
1. Intro
2. Administration
3. Troubleshooting

iPhone usage

Patent war games

Some nice step by step presentations of recent patent wars by Florian Mueller: