tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-242320312026-04-01T22:06:49.541+12:00Commentary, news, views and general rambling by Rajnesh D. Singh. The content in this Blog do not necessarily represent the views and opinions of Organisation(s) the author works for or is involved with. Use of this site is subject to the Site Disclaimer at the bottom of this page.Rajnesh D. Singhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07949455245891074242noreply@blogger.comBlogger85125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24232031.post-30242489391413881862010-02-22T21:29:00.001+13:002010-02-22T21:36:00.565+13:00

The first India vs South Africa ODI came down to 1 run: http://www.cricinfo.com/indvrsa2010/content/story/449406.html Yes, the SA batsmen had a gallant whack at the end, but yet again India nearly faltered. SA's 74 runs required from 43 balls looked like India had it in the bag. Then the bowling disintegrated (I don't know how else to describe it). Sreesanth and Nehra both being hit for 4s and

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Earlier this week, I received a SMS on my mobile phone telling me: Thank your star! Your mobile number have won 1Million USD in FIFA 2010 GAME OF LIFE PROMO; for claims e-mail fifaclaims@w.cn or call +447-024-036-835 The originating number showed up as: +2347056318188 This had me intrigued. I have been lucky enough to win many many wonderful prizes over the years where the very considerate

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This is an interesting development: http://www.globalinnovationcommons.org/ If this takes hold and works in the way it should, the possibilities and opportunities are (nearly) limitless... From the site: What would happen if you were given over $2 trillion? That's right, if someone walked up to you and gave you $2 trillion. That could never happen, right? In fact, that is exactly what has

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An interesting bit of news as we end the year: http://telecom.questexmediagroup.com/t/966346/19452595/59291/0/ From the article above: After 21 years, the code that has kept the world's GSM networks safe from interception has been broken. According to a 28 year old German cryptographer Karsten Nohl, speaking at a hacker conference in Berlin the Chaos Communication Congress, the encryption code

Rajnesh D. Singhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07949455245891074242noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24232031.post-25706291719069594142009-12-16T18:03:00.001+13:002009-12-16T18:03:56.446+13:00

I have been having a bit of an adventure finding a suitable (freeware) SIP client (softphone) for my Mac.Its not as easy as on Linux, or Windows for that matter.X-Lite is there, but it only supports one SIP account - I have several - so its useless for me.I found 2 others that may do the job - SIP Communicator http://www.sip-communicator.org/and Blink http://icanblink.com/SIP Communicator has

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I recently bought myself a Mac.....I had one 20 years ago, and the world is certainly a different place in technicolour!The Mac I had in those days had a monochrome display :)One thing I must say is that the Mac really is built for usability. (Nearly) everything just works on my MacBook Pro. I also have a Windows Notebook (Vista, sigh!) and another running Linux (Ubuntu). The Vista notebook is

Rajnesh D. Singhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07949455245891074242noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24232031.post-39366476453096631192009-12-12T18:00:00.001+13:002009-12-12T18:00:25.298+13:00

Although I attended both IGF 2008 and 2009, I did not have time to blog about them. Here are links to the ISOC blogs on IGF 2008 (Hyderabad, India) and IGF 2009 (Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt) which give some coverage on the sessions and events:IGF 2008: http://isoc.org/wp/igf2009/IGF 2009: http://isoc.org/wp/igf2008/

Rajnesh D. Singhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07949455245891074242noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24232031.post-52964255895434731362009-12-12T17:34:00.002+13:002009-12-12T17:37:17.871+13:00

Its been nearly 2 years since I posted regularly on this blog. Various things have kept me away, however, I hope to post with some regularity from now on......at least that's the thought :)

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This past week, I attended GK3 organised by the Global Knowledge Partnership in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.The conference was held at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre which is an outstanding conference venue, surrounded by a range of hotels within walking distance.The conference itself was a somewhat eclectic mix of people covering civil society, private sector, public sector, social entrepreneurs

Rajnesh D. Singhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07949455245891074242noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24232031.post-28704653314717982442007-11-15T19:50:00.000+12:002007-12-30T19:52:09.793+12:00

Much was said and debated at this session, and what was said covered a diverse range of issues. One observation: (as one would expect in a multi-stakeholder environment) different groups push different issues from technical to non-technical to social responsibility to policy to something somewhere in-between (and outside!).Talking to some IGF delegates who were “rookies” and some with

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This year ISOC was highly visible at IGF (and yes I am happy!). In the “Village Square” ISOC had the premium booth and was pretty much the first thing anyone entering the section saw. The 11 ISOC Ambassadors were given lanyards (good one Kevin) to hold their security IDs and this meant we stood out with our white lanyards with ISOC logos blazing on them. As far as I know, the ISOC Ambassador

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I was a Panellist for this session on Day 3. When I was first approached to be on this panel, I had some idea of the background surrounding the issue, but only when I read through some of the literature provided by the organisers did I get a real appreciation of how grave the issue is, indeed it is potentially a disaster waiting to happen. When we add the attempts to get the next 1 billion online

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I was on the panel for this workshop and though, in my opinion, the theme of the workshop was quite clear, the discussions that ensued got fragmented into a discussion on the old ICANN debate. Of course some do say that the Critical Internet Resources theme is a veil for the old ICANN debate. My final comment on the panel was “The Internet is a dynamic beast and Organisations and debates must

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I was involved in the organisation of this workshop and it turned out to be a rather good session, though we had some logistics problems in the beginning with Videos that did not start playing and microphones that did not work.The session started with a presentation by Janna Anderson from Imagining the Internet on a survey they carried out at IGF Athens and it was interesting to hear comments

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The dates have been announced by the Indian Delegation as 8th to 11th December in New Delhi, India, and the five themes from this year will continue.Update: Venue for IGF 2008 is going to be the Taj Palace Hotel

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We just heard from John Klensin, where he gave a brief overview of Internet development, and emphasised that the problems today are not necessarily all new - they have existed in one form or another for some time. He also stated that multi-lingual content on the Internet has existed for a while (with Japanese Kanji in use since the 1980s), and that criminal elements tend to use technology more

Rajnesh D. Singhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07949455245891074242noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24232031.post-34688981540982961552007-11-12T19:36:00.000+12:002007-12-30T19:38:55.414+12:00

IGF Rio has kicked off!The usual roll call of guest speakers is ticking along. In the opening session, there was some reference to the old ICANN/DNS Adminstration story, but it was good to see some of the guest speakers picking up on this, and re-stating what the focus of IGF should be, and highlighting that all present should expend their energy on the more pressing global issues such as getting

Rajnesh D. Singhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07949455245891074242noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24232031.post-87811361874081753102007-05-29T02:23:00.000+12:002007-06-11T02:30:15.424+12:00

I have recently been a "victim" of the domain name tasting "scam". A domain name (.COM) which is somewhat related to me (which was owned by someone else) expired and as I knew from whois (which is another debate on its own) that the expiry date was coming up, I kept a watch on when it would become available so I could register it. To cut a long story short, it took me nearly 6 weeks to get the

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I needed to install a new server, and having thus far run Mandriva on my servers, I stick with it, Mandriva 2007 in this instance. During the install process I get all excited when I see a big splash saying easy to use great system and network backup software free in this edition for upto 50GB of data. I install the server OS, wrestle with upgrades and dependencies for my other applications,

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Unfortunately I did not have much time to look around Bali. Took a walk to the markets just outside the resort complex (Nusa Dua) and did a bit of a lightning trip to Kuta before catching my plane back. People are generally very friendly and courteous.The shopping is great, and in the markets a bit of determined bargaining will work wonders to the price. Balinese craftsmanship is exlempary and I

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Well not quite like the Red Gum song, but somewhat close.I had to organise somewhat of a last minute dash to Bali. After much discussion (over a considerable length of time), there was light at the end of the tunnel with the establishment of APRALO Asia Pacific Regional At Large Organisation, part of ICANN's At Large Advisory Committee. We hoped to sign off on the MOU and Operating Principles and

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The new year is well and truly here. It was back to work today and straight into the deep end.So what does 2007 hold? Well, when the Chinese New Year rolls around in a couple of weeks or so, it will be the year of the Pig (and I understand the Fire Pig). As I understand it, based on this, it should be a"fireworks year" with prosperity highlighted, amongst other things.In the technology world, and

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2006 is over and done with and it has been an interesting year in all respects. I was going to do a recap.............but here is a picture instead. This is what sunset looked like at the Coral Coast in Fiji just before it started dipping over the horizon. Best wishes for the new year!

Rajnesh D. Singhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07949455245891074242noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24232031.post-11845365732513672772006-12-18T12:44:00.000+12:002007-04-20T15:39:30.157+12:00

This past week, with my usual round of messages enticing me to visit the cheapest pharmacies online, seeking my assistance to transfer squillions of dollars (in unmarked USD 1.00 bills I hope), the hottest stockmarket tips, offers to give me a PhD because of my outstanding work experience, guaranteed results in increasing the size of certain parts of my anatomy and the usual slate of tech news

Rajnesh D. Singhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07949455245891074242noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24232031.post-40704488483008823542006-11-03T19:54:00.000+12:002006-11-17T19:55:47.249+12:00

Well IGF 2006 is over and done with. It has been an interesting week. My impressions? Well for the most part (a consensus agreed to by just about everyone I talked to) IGF has been the same people saying the same thing all over again, except in a different city. A lot of the same old agenda's were being pushed by the same bunch of people. Perhaps what is needed is some fresh blood and some new

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