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What is a IP address?

An Internet Protocol (IP) address is a numerical label that is assigned to devices participating in a computer network that uses the Internet Protocol for communication between its nodes. An IP address serves two principal functions: host or network interface identification and location addressing. Its role has been characterized as follows: "A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how to get there."

The designers of TCP/IP defined an IP address as a 32-bit number[1] and this system, known as Internet Protocol Version 4 or IPv4, is still in use today. However, due to the enormous growth of the Internet and the resulting depletion of available addresses, a new addressing system (IPv6), using 128 bits for the address, was developed in 1995 and last standardized by RFC 2460 in 1998. Although IP addresses are stored as binary numbers, they are usually displayed in human-readable notations, such as 208.77.188.166 (for IPv4), and 2001:db8:0:1234:0:567:1:1 (for IPv6).

The Internet Protocol also routes data packets between networks; IP addresses specify the locations of the source and destination nodes in the topology of the routing system. For this purpose, some of the bits in an IP address are used to designate a subnetwork. The number of these bits is indicated in CIDR notation, appended to the IP address; e.g., 208.77.188.166/24.

As the development of private networks raised the threat of IPv4 address exhaustion, RFC 1918 set aside a group of private address spaces that may be used by anyone on private networks. They are often used with network address translators to connect to the global public Internet.

The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), which manages the IP address space allocations globally, cooperates with five Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) to allocate IP address blocks to Local Internet Registries (Internet service providers) and other entities.

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Mozilla has joined the chorus in declaring HTML5 as the way of the future.

While Mozilla isn't going quite as far as Apple - Flash is still supported in Firefox - vice president of production Jay Sullivan told The Register the Adobe product will never be bundled with the browser.

It's not specifically Adobe that's the problem - it's that web standards, including HTML5 are where the industry is going. Anyone can install apps or scripts that enhance their browsing experience - that's part of being an open source browser. And, if someone already has Flash installed, Firefox may eventually auto-update the application (it doesn't right now, and Google's Chrome does - it's also bundled with Flash).

Just this week, in fact, Mozilla released Firefox 3.6.4, which offers crash protection for the browser if Flash (or QuickTime or Silverlight) crashes on a computer running Windows or Linux. Support for Mac or other operating systems will be included in a future release, Mozilla said.

That could be in Firefox 4.0, which has an imminent beta release and an official release date in November.

And it would be foolish for Mozilla to pretend Adobe doesn't exist. While more and more developers are embracing HTML5, Flash is still an industry standard in web video. But until recently, it seemed Mozilla was squarely in the Flash camp.

With Apple, Microsoft and now Mozilla leaning toward HTML5, could Adobe's Flash days be numbered? None is completely abandoning Flash, by any means. That would be short-sighted with the ubiquity of the application's online use for video and web animation.

But with three of the major browser developers giving the thumbs up to HTML5 over Flash, a tipping point could be reached that could make the iPhone/Flash debate seem minor.

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Many folks who are just tuning into the HTML5 saga because of the battle between Adobe and Apple are surprised to learn that the push to create a fifth official version of the HTML specification began six years ago. And that's just the first half of the story because the latest implementations, while nice, are far from standards. The HTML5 demos from Apple, for instance, are impressive, but they only run well on Safari.

That's how slowly committees can work. The browser creators and other stakeholders have a big collection of ideas for improving the browser and the Web, and these are gradually coalescing into a fifth generation for the standard. But agreement takes time. Many of the new tags and JavaScript functions exist already as experiments on some of the browsers, but interoperability and standardization are still to come. That's why the Flash groupies joke about HTML5 being a time machine to take you back to 2000.

While the jokes may sting and waiting for more general adoption is tiresome, it would be a mistake to simply ignore HTML5. There are not only powerful companies behind it, but there's also the standard process of technological development. The software -- both browsers and tools -- tends to absorb all of the orbiting extras, incorporating them into the main standard.

HTML5 will change many aspects of life on the Web. It will not displace Flash or Shockwave: One glance at the games on Miniclip.com, such as Jet Ski Racer, shows how much ground the HTML5 committee must cover. But HTML5 will still remake the Web and enable basic Websites to do much more -- from tracking our location to storing more of our data in the cloud. HTML5 tags will displace plug-ins for simpler jobs, at least some of the time, and it will open up advanced capabilities to a larger audience. It might even make the Web more secure, more efficient, and more adaptable.

To see where this new standard may take us, I collected the opinions from a number of developers, programmers, and designers. Here is an unordered list of ways that the Web may change as HTML5 is gradually adopted and standardized.

HTML5 will reduce the importance of plug-ins
HTML5 will enable more interactive graphics
HTML5 will allow applications to tap local file storage
HTML5 will simplify scraping with cyborg data
HTML5 will add location to the mix
HTML5 will smooth the way to Web video
HTML5 will produce chattier widgets
HTML5 will improve security (maybe)
HTML5 will simplify Web development

HTML5 will reduce the importance of plug-ins
Once upon a time the Web world liked the idea of a browser plug-in or add-on because it encouraged creativity and experimentation. Sounds, moving pictures, and other neat tricks appeared on the Web first through plug-ins built by Sun, Adobe, RealAudio, Microsoft, and many others. The plug-in interface was open to all, and everyone experimented with adding new features to the old, text-based world.

The battle over Flash may be the most famous skirmish, but the newer expanded powers of HTML5 also threaten other coding silos. JavaFX may be wonderful, but who wants to learn another syntax when JavaScript and the Canvas object will do the job? Who needs the Real ecosystem when the video tag will synchronize audio and video? Plug-ins like these are destined to be forgotten.

Will the idea of a plug-in disappear or fall into disfavor? Perhaps, but it depends on what you want to do. If drawing images is your goal, then the Canvas object may be powerful enough. But if you want to build specialized 3-D worlds like the ones found in the more sophisticated Flash and Shockwave games, you may be pining for the old days when a plug-in could get direct access to the video hardware or run a 3-D game world.

HTML5 will enable more interactive graphics
The old Web loaded images by downloading a GIF or a JPG file. The new Web can build an image on the fly in a Canvas object. A number of good graphing libraries have appeared, and all of them make a Website's graphics much more interactive.

Now the JavaScript layer can compute values and draw pictures with the data. Everything can become more alive and much less textual -- if the developer has the time and talent to create the solutions. Adobe is just beginning to make it simpler to develop sophisticated graphics for HTML5. The emergence of such tools will unlock additional capabilities, and the sophistication of the graphics will only improve as the tools mature.

There is a legitimate danger that all of this sophistication will overwhelm the poor client-side processors. In the past, some developers deliberately disabled the Flash plug-in to avoid the headaches and overhead of rendering heavy Flash content. That won't be an option in the future. Everyone who's been complaining about Flash may learn that the troubles had little to do with the technology itself -- the problems came from the designers battling for our attention.

HTML5 will allow applications to tap local file storage
Web programmers have always been able to store a surprisingly large amount of information in cookies (300 cookies of up to 4,096 bytes in IE), but to do real work you need more room. The early versions from the Dojo toolkit used the Flash plug-in to commandeer a section of the hard disk, but now the tools can simply use HTML5.

This storage can be used for anything the programmer wants, including undermining the entire cloud paradigm by storing data locally on the hard disk. This makes it possible to deliver and install applications that behave just like classic applications. Applications load their JavaScript code from the HTML5 offline application cache and start right up whether or not the Web connection is working.

The technique does not need to undermine the hard work of cloud proponents, though, because the local databases can act like smart caches. Game programmers might store descriptions and artwork locally, saving the time of downloading the information again and again.

On the downside, these databases are buried deeply in the system folder, so making backups may not be the simplest step. Users who may want to move their local data from machine to machine will pull out their hair. Or perhaps we'll just see a hybrid cloud/local approach appear where the local machine caches the data but the cloud maintains a definitive version that can be accessed from different machines.

HTML5 will simplify scraping with cyborg data
Anyone who's scraped data from Web pages knows that the structure offered by HTML does little except tell the browser where to place the information. There's no insight into the data itself, something that would help a programmer make sense of the information. The so-called microformats in HTML5 provide a mechanism to introduce more sophisticated markup into the HTML that makes it easier to analyze the data.

No one can predict just how much change the microformats will bring to the Web, but it's easy to see how they will empower programmers to whip together solutions. If there's one nice, standard way to represent dates and times, for example, then programmers can knit together the time-related information from Websites without bothering to write sophisticated parsers that guess at the format one person chose. Calendars, timelines, and schedules drawn from multiple sources become much simpler to craft.

HTML5 will add location to the mix
To the Web server, we were once just IP addresses, relatively anonymous numbers that had only a rough correspondence to the real world. The HTML5 standard now lets JavaScript ask the browser for the latitude and longitude of the user. It typically doesn't work with a desktop system (GPS or Wi-Fi required), but it works quite well with handheld smartphones.

No one knows what clever programmers will create with this location information, but it's bound to integrate cyberspace with meatspace in unpredictable and amazing ways.

HTML5 will smooth the way to Web video
The HTML5 video tag makes it easier for Web developers to integrate video with the information on the rest of the page, opening up the bag of tricks to jQuery and PHP developers, not just Flash, Silverlight, or JavaFX magicians.

Despite this vision, there's little coherence, as everyone wants to be the ones distributing the codecs for unpacking the moving images and the corresponding sound. The HTML5 standard is codec-neutral, which means that we're replacing the old world where the add-on software was called a plug-in with a new world where the add-on is called a codec. So there's a standard video tag, but the browser may or may not know how to interpret the data.

Erich Ocean, a HTML5 application development lecturer who teaches in Los Angeles, believes the codec wars are already won. "Computer programmers (and Mozilla) are fooling themselves if they think they can dictate video standards to video professionals," he said. "Google's new format will see some usage, for example in YouTube, but will never reach anywhere close to the ubiquity of H.264."

Despite the confusion and the lack of complete agreement, the new video tag will unlock more of the power of video and make HTML less and less of a textual jungle and more and more of a video playground. It's too soon to stop teaching our kids to read, but maybe the handwriting -- er, the Webcam video is projected on the wall.

HTML5 will produce chattier widgets
The widgets that run in IFrames have enabled sites to embed information from other sites for years, but they've always been limited by the security boundaries that keep each widget in a separate sandbox.

HTML5 offers a standard mechanism for these widgets to talk with each other. They still won't be able to reach into each other's sandbox, but they'll be able to send messages back and forth, coordinating their work and maybe even gossiping about the person typing at the keyboard.

Advertisers will drool at the chance to coordinate the behavior of disparate rectangles scattered across the page, and developers will surely find other practical uses. For instance, a tennis tournament might synchronize players on the left and the right of the page, an effect that may be so maddening that some will go running back to HTML 1.0.

However, this mechanism for sending messages is just a start. There's still a need to set standards for the information that's passed, so widgets stand a chance of speaking to each other even when they haven't been developed with a specific conversation in mind. In other words, they need more of a standard vocabulary.

HTML5 will improve security (maybe)
Each browser plug-in is a separate program built by a different team of programmers with different standards, different release schedules, and different models for security. Naturally, some plug-ins are more secure than others. And as plug-ins proliferate they increase the complexity of keeping track of the security faults. Was it the plug-in or the browser that had that nasty hole at the end of last year? Was it fixed by updating the browser but not the plug-in or vice versa? Who can remember?

Replacing many plug-ins with features baked into HTML5 removes the dangers that any of these groups will make a mistake, or worse, that someone will use a plug-in API to deliberately install malicious code. If the security team auditing Firefox, Chrome, or IE does the job -- granted, that's a big if -- then the dangers will be fewer.

This claim of better security, though, is a bit of a wild guess. The devious minds may use their malice aforethought to take advantage of the nice integration, perhaps drawing PayPal logos with the Canvas object from scratch to impersonate the PayPal site. No one can predict what the dangerous minds will discover in the new capabilities of HTML5.

HTML5 will simplify Web development
Bill Mill, a developer who works at Lookingglass Cyber Solutions, explains the change succinctly: "I mainly like HTML5 because it allows me to work in one unified environment, the browser plus JavaScript plus DOM, without having to switch back and forth between the Flash world and the HTML5 world. There is one language and one set of tools, not different ones for each plug-in."

He adds, "I think this is noticeable to the user too, where Flash blobs seem to exist in their own world within a Web page."

HTML5 offers one language (JavaScript), one data model (XML and DOM), and one set of layout rules (CSS) to bind text, audio, video, and graphics. The challenge of making something beautiful is still immense, but it's simpler to work with a unified standard.

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* Adding your own hosted .flv videos to WordPress
* How to embed videos from video sites such as YouTube

Start adding videos to your WordPress sites today and read on…

Playing hosted flash videos

If you can create your own .flv videos, and would rather not host them on a third-party site, there’s no better plugin than FLV Embed. With this plugin you can add your video to a post or page with a quick tag. First you need to get the plugin from WordPress.org at install it through OneClick or manually.

Once installed and activated, you’ll be able to configure the settings of the FLV player when it’s displayed on your blog.

In addition to setting options such as colors, you can also have your own logo embedded, have “Full Screen Mode” enabled, set the default volume, among other features you’d expect to see from a fully featured video plugin.

To display a video in a page or a post, you’d use a quick tag similar to the following:

The first option, currently your-video.flv, is obviously the name of the video in the path you set on the options page. You can also set it as a full URL. The optional-portrait.jpg is optional, and is what will show up as a “preview” before the video is played. The 2 numbers are width and height, respectively.

Embedding videos from other sites

Several popular video sites such as YouTube, Google Video, MetaCafe, IFILM, and others offer “embedding” code that will allow you to place a hosted video up for display on your own site, without sacrificing your own bandwidth resources. For WordPress, there is an easy plugin that you can use to embed videos in a similar “quick tag” format as above. It’s called Viper’s Video Quicktags.

Currently this plugin supports the following video sites:

* YouTube
* Google Video
* IFILM
* MetaCafe
* MySpace

These among other hosted video formats as well. You can get the plugin at WordPress.org. Once activated, you’ll see the options for the video sites on your post menu, which will prompt you for the video URL. It will generate the code in quick tag format to be displayed in your post.

As you can see, it’s a very simple format. All you need is the YouTube video URL. It’s a similar format for the other supported video sites as well.

Conclusion

If you post videos frequently on your blog I’d highly recommend these plugins, especially Viper’s for the quick tag post integration for all those video sites.

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Degrees in environmental studies, environmental science, and environmental engineering are commonplace in most universities throughout the United States, but Metropolitan Community College (MCC) in Omaha, Nebraska is taking degree specificity to new levels with its 2-year associate's degree in green data center management.

Degree-seekers will use IBM hardware and software (thanks to a partnership with the company) in their quest to become green data center masters. That means plenty of hours logged in riveting classes like Virtualization, Remote Access, and Monitoring; Data Center Racks and Cabling; and Applied Data Center Management. The program culminates with an internship in the on-campus Information Technology Data Center, which is funded by $1.8 million Department of Labor grant.

So why did the Department of Labor and IBM choose to focus their energies on a community college in Nebraska? Omaha is at the intersection of east-west and north-south fiber optic networks, and as a result the city has become something of a hub for communications and information services companies. That, in turn, has led to a demand for data center employees in the area.

And since data centers are responsible for 1.5% of all power use in the United States, any employee who can offer expertise in keeping energy costs down is extremely valuable. With data center energy consumption expected to double in the coming years to 100 billion kilowatt hours--$7.4 billion in energy costs--those students who slave through the dry topics in the green data center management program will probably have better job prospects than most college graduates.

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When you see some text prefixed by “http://” you automatically know that what follows is a web address, as defined by the Hypertext Transfer Protocol. The question is — since most web addresses are easily recognizable anyway — do you really need it?

The developers of Google Chrome don’t think you do, so they simply chose to hide it in a developer version of Chrome.

The solution might not be that simple, though. You can hide the http:// bit from a web address, but it doesn’t mean it’s not really there. Worse — as seen from the comments from the Chromium wiki thread, where this feature was actually reported as a bug — it might cause problems for users.

“Many blogs, message boards, email viewing software, instant messaging software, etc. depend on matching against http:// to auto-link URLs. Removing http:// will train end-users to omit it, which will have a negative impact on usability all over the web,” one commenter says.

An example of this is Google Talk’s auto-linking of URL fragments; other issues include copying and pasting web addresses and other related bugs. The folks at Chrome are right about one thing: The “http://” part of the web address serves little purpose and mostly creates noise. The question is: Will hiding it solve the problem?

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WorldlyPeople.com – Inviting people with big ideas and big minds

Marina Del Rey, CA (PRWEB) May 3, 2010 -- Internet is already flooded with quite a few social networks, most of which focus on informal fun, entertainment and business prospective. WorldyPeople.com is the new addition in the list of social networks, which claims to be different. This social network is created with the purpose of involving different ideologies of people who are willing to learn from every facet of life. The network is proving to be a big platform for the smart people that are always looking for new learning opportunities by sharing and exploring new ideas. Worldly people are interested to learn things from other people and also share their knowledge with others.

The website is launched recently, and it has already generated a lot of buzz. People are exploring various offerings of the social network that includes informative blogs, forum, polls, videos, events, music, photos and a lot more. Only difference is that such a huge platform is not just meant to be used for talking about a hot dress or a celebrity getting into a new controversy. It is rather about finding one’s true self and realizing own values in life. It takes whole life for a person to realize his/her true worth and it is possible only by exploring new horizons of knowledge and information. WorldlyPeople.com is providing that opportunity in a big way.

This social network is the brainchild of Charles Yarbrough, who is presently the president of dwhs (http://www.dwhs.net/), a domain web hosting service company. The launch of this social networking site is backed by $200,000 US and the owners and it is presently seeking an additional funding of 10 million. As of now, this cutting-edge social network has been made a paid website. The profile of Charles Yarbrough can be visited at http://www.charlesyarbrough.com.

WorldlyPeople.com is inviting people all over the world to learn about new places, people and culture. It is fun as well as enriching. Those who love to travel different parts of the world, can use the website a perfect platform to explore new places. They can make friends with people based in a place where they want to travel and get vital information. The site has included several top-notch social networking tools such as interesting videos, photos and blogs that describe varied information about different parts of the world. The users can also upload similar videos, blogs and photos to the social network that can be visited by several others.

The site is mainly targeted at the big minded people, open minded people, smart educated people, and travelers, and it’s getting a great response from it’s niche.
It is quite simple to become a part of this growing community called WorldlyPeople. The users are just required to sign up and create their profiles that can be viewed by thousands of people online. Out of that, there will be hundreds of likeminded people with whom they can exchange thoughts, knowledge and information. Using this network is enlightening and it excels in its performance, privacy and security.

For more information about the social network, visit: http://www.worldlypeople.com
For more details, contact at http://www.worldlypeople.com/index.php?do=/contact/.
For more information about Charles Yarbrough, visit: www.charlesyarbrough.com
Or contact him via telephone at: 1-866-660-HOST (4678)
Or via mail at: Los Angeles County - 13428 Maxella Ave, #394 Marina Del Rey, CA 90292

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The days of the 3.5-inch floppy disk are now officially numbered.

Sony, which boasts 70 percent of the anemic market, announced Friday that it would end Japanese sales of the ancient storage medium in March 2011, according to a report in the Mainichi Daily newspaper.

The 3.5-inch floppy was a ubiquitous and necessary component for storing and transferring files between personal computers for nearly three decades. Sony pioneered the 3.5-inch floppy disk in 1981, eventually replacing the 5.25-inch floppy disk that had previously been the popular storage format.

However, as the size of files and programs grew, the floppy disk was pushed aside by inexpensive and larger-format storage medium. Thanks to the creation of storage methods such as CDs, DVDs, Zip, and USB drives, Sony saw its Japanese sales of floppies decline from a record 47 million disks in fiscal 2002 to 12 million in fiscal 2009.

Most other floppy disk manufacturers had long since pulled out of the market, and Sony itself has already ceased sales to most of its overseas markets.

Certainly the writing had been on the walls for years. With the release of the iMac in 1998, Apple was the first computer maker to take the plunge and eliminate the floppy completely. Dell followed suit in 2003 when it dropped the floppy as standard equipment on one of its Dimension desktops.

Updated at 4:50 p.m.: to clarify sales figures are for Japan.

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The most obvious is Unlimited Web Hosting.

Obviously it's not unlimited otherwise websites like Youtube would not have to spend 2 million a month on their web hosting, or maybe Yahoo can get a hosting account for $6 and get rid of their multi million dollar facility. The scam is that they will kick you off if you actually use too much resource and call it something ambiguous like inodes.

The other downfall is without being able to monitor what each websites limit will be, huge spikes from random websites sharing your server will cause outages, slowdowns, and poor server performance.

The only one that grinds my gears is 100% uptime.

Well once again 100% uptime is impossible in fact no website has done it for more then ten years ever. Even icann.com the registration service that started and holds the internet together does not have a 100% uptime. Google, Yahoo, Facebook and Myspace, none have a 100% uptime. Yet it's amazing how many small start up web hosts can out do these multi million dollar corporations and the creating company of the internet.

A new way of thinking.

People should consider not using companies that are not honest, it's setting a bar for a much lower way of doing business which basically boils down who can lie the best or trick people the best.

More and more the things we buy define who we are, saving a dollar to contribute to a company full of lies is is saying something about the consumer. For example clothes are things that are Eco friendly. I hope someday people will consider all purchases with such concern about what they stand for.

This article was written by Charles Yarbrough,

Charles Yarbrough is the president of DWHS Web Hosting. You can read more about him at his blog here: Charles Yarbrough

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A few weeks ago, tensions between Adobe and Apple rose to all-time highs after Apple prominently left Flash off of the iPad. A lashing by Steve Jobs, calling Adobe lazy and Flash buggy didn’t help matters at all.

The problem: Apple believes that Flash shouldn’t be part of the web’s future. Instead, the company believes that HTML5 is what will define the web and would love to see more developers adopt it instead of Flash. Now that big video sites such as YouTube (YouTube) are testing support for HTML5, Steve could be getting his wish.

That’s why we asked you, the readers, to tell us where you stand on the issue. Adobe Flash vs. HTML5: Which is better for the future of the web? After more than 6,000 votes…

…HTML5 handily knocked out Adobe Flash. With 3,891 votes, HTML5 garnered 61% of the polls. Adobe Flash was able to muster 1,779 votes (28%), while 660 said it was a tie (10%).

Next week, we’ll do it all over again with another web faceoff. Be sure to tune in and vote!

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