Ideas5 in Perth
Have you heard about Ideas meetings? It’s on again in Perth: http://webindustry.asn.au/ideas5/ Highly recommend.
GM22
What? No lemongrass?Archive for Crikey! It's Internet.
Google is now on WAIX
Google is now on WAIX – here is a traceroute from my home Amnet DSL:
C:Usersgm>tracert www.google.com
Tracing route to www.l.google.com [72.14.203.103]
over a maximum of 30 hops:1 1 ms <1 ms <1 ms my.router [192.168.0.1]
2 26 ms 6 ms 6 ms rba-7206-e.wa.amnet.net.au [203.161.64.230]
3 6 ms 6 ms 6 ms 192.168.4.238
4 106 ms 9 ms 6 ms ge0-2.br01.wa.amnet.net.au [203.161.64.9]
5 8 ms 6 ms 6 ms google.ix.waia.asn.au [198.32.212.12]
6 6 ms 6 ms 6 ms 66.249.95.210
7 54 ms 54 ms 56 ms 66.249.95.246
8 107 ms 103 ms 101 ms 209.85.241.221
9 104 ms 103 ms 101 ms 209.85.250.101
10 104 ms 103 ms 102 ms 209.85.241.166
11 101 ms 101 ms 103 ms tx-in-f103.google.com [72.14.203.103]Trace complete.
The same goes for youtube.com too. If only ISPs offered free waix content still – we’d have free youtube – as much as you can eat!
Nobody knows kitchens like Mike knows kitchens
I was driving home the other night and saw this truck in front of me. I had to stick my hand out of the window and take a photo. There was something very familiar about this truck. Something that made me think about search engines.. yes.. search engines.
It looked like someone optimised the sign on the truck for search engines “Nobody knows kitchens like Mike knows kitchens”. Key phrase “knows kitchens”. Makes me wonder how ugly sometimes our web sites sound with all those repetitive phrases we do on the web site, just to make it findable on the web.
IPv6 is near – IPv6 Hosting
Ok everybody… there’s been more and more talk about IPv6. As IPv4 addresses are a limited resource and the Internet may run out of the “normal” IPv4 address space by the end of 2011 – it’s becoming more and more important to be ready to provide IPv6 hosting.
Fast Hit just acquired a /32 IPv6 subnet from APNIC – that’s 79,228,162,514,264,337,593,543,950,336 unique IP addresses! First, we’ll be setting up IPv6 peering at WAIX, then also looking for a link to the outside world. We’ll be offering dedicated servers and VPS with IPv6 – stay tuned – it’ll be a very exciting development in the hosting industry.
.asia domain registrations – now available
There is a new domain extension that is now open for all to register – .asia domains. It’s $27.50/yr and you can register it from our domains web site: http://domains.fasthit.net/
Sam Murray Post
How long does it take for a web site to be findable on the internet? Here is a test. I just made a sample page for Sam Murray (Samuel Owen Murray) – let’s monitor the engines to see how soon it will be indexed.
Edit: After 7 days, it’s at the top of Google:
Just shows that as long as you follow simple SEO techniques, it’s quite easy, rally, to be on top.
waix.info – WAIX Resources web site
I’ve setup a new WAIX Resources web site – http://www.waix.info
It’s in no way affiliated with WAIA or WAIX, it’s an open for all wiki that anyone can edit.
If you know of a waix resource that needs to be added – please do.
Thank you.
GM
Perth.com – sold for $200,000
Crikey – some one paid US$200,000 for perth.com domain name on an auction just a few days ago (see snapshot below, taken from http://marketplacepro.moniker.com/auction/events/182/results.html ). What kind of site is it going to be? If they paid that much for the domain name, how much would they pay for their web site?
Hey, anybody wants to invest in FAST.hit ? 
Convert video files – e.g, avi to flv
Here a simple way to convert video files to flv on the fly. Just right-click on the file name (avi or any other video format, I only tested a few though), and just select “Send To” > “Convert to flv”.
Here are some examples of flv files created that way: http://www.thewalkbeside.com/category/videos/.
The script uses ffmpeg.exe (For more information see: http://ffdshow.faireal.net/mirror/ffmpeg/ ) which seems to be a standard for most media conversion software available out there.
The result files are optimised for use within blogs. You’ll obviously need to install an flv flash player plugin for your blog. We use WP-FLV from http://roel.meurders.nl/wordpress-plugins/wp-flv-video-player-plugin/
Here is how it works.
1. Download the files, unzip and save somewhere on your computer (e.g., c:\ffmpeg folder.)
2. Create a shortcut to the VBS file (right-click on ConvertAVI_FLV > Create shortcut) and drag it to the SendTo menu:
vista – C:\Users\-username-\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo
xp – c:\Documents and Settings\-Username-\SendTo
That’s it!
Download the files here – converttoflv.zip
GM
Ai yai yai yai.
There are some web sites out there that brighen up the rest of the internet. Here are some of them:
And no, it wasn’t me who designed the web sites
You need your speakers turned on up and loud!
Does anyone know of any other sites of this nature?