In this correspondent episode of the hellyeah! show, we discuss the new Xbox dashboard due out tomorrow, some further developments in the Carrier IQ situation, the (hopefully) impending transition from IPv4 to IPv6, and our best practices for handling email.
Check out the show notes after the break…
new Xbox dashboard due out Tuesday
- voice search and voice commands
- native Kinect integration
- lots of TV/video content
- http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-57335878-75/new-xbox-update-aims-to-put-microsoft-at-the-heart-of-tv-viewing/
- half of all Netflix traffic in prime time is Xboxen — NPR
- 20% of all IP traffic is Netflix
Carrier IQ updates
- may have violated federal wiretap laws
- Al Franken sent a great letter
- More researchers have presented their findings and analysis
- http://www.dailytech.com/Research+Carrier+IQ+Raises+Some+Security+Risks+But+Media+Coverage+Has+Flaws/article23429.htm
- http://vulnfactory.org/blog/2011/12/05/carrieriq-the-real-story/
- F the Carriers anyway
- edge only today, 0.04Mbps, thanks AT&T Wireless for your terribad service
- Carrier IQ’s distance from operators
IPv6 transition
- is it going to work?
- no good monetary incentives exist currently
- Emory has a new mail client
- MailMate (I also use Mutt, Mail.app and *gasp* Outlook)
- heliotrope
- Google Apps (but having second thoughts)
- Alan uses Apple Mail for primary email
- hosting by FastMail
- secondary/junk email handled by Gmail
- best practices for email
- use IMAP instead of POP
- triage
- TextExpander/typeit4me
- lim(inbox_size)time->∞ = 0
- unsubscribe from everything (or send it to a secondary/junk inbox)
