Finally tonight I got around to watching the josh harris story unfold after a decade of watching the visionary human junkie decompile the human condition and lay it all out for all to see.
It was a nice distraction this evening - most enjoyable. thanks to @hadleypaul and those that made it happen.Sent from my iPhone
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One major culprit of slow browsing speed on the Internet, other than your connection speed and latency (the time it takes for a packet to travel from your computer to a server), is the Domain Name System (DNS). Each machine on the Internet has a unique number assigned to it by an Internet Service Provider (ISP), an Internet protocol address, commonly known as IP address, such as 74.125.67.100, which is the IP address for Google. If you type http://74.125.67.100 in your browser URL bar, it will take you to the same Google search page as http://google.com. Since IP addresses are very hard to retain and share, DNS was created. When you type google.com in your browser, a request is sent to a DNS server. The DNS server looks up the domain name in a table and returns the IP address. Then the browser connects to the Google server. Think of it as a telephone. You say or select “Bob”. Then the phone looks up Bob’s number in the address book then calls 123-555-4567.
Google today announced a new Public DNS service for all to use. The goal of the service is to provide a faster and much secure browsing experience. The cost of the service, $0. The Google Public DNS (GPD) servers are available all around the world, routing the traffic to the closest DNS server. For all of you who want to jump on the GPD bandwagon (myself included) keep in mind the following points:
1) The service is experimental and you should always have a backup service which you can use (such as OpenDNS or your ISPs DNS).
2) The service is meant strictly for individual users, while companies or small ISPs can use the service (theoretically), but they should always make sure that the users have a backup DNS service available.
3) If you are like me and using OpenDNS, keep in mind that you can use both GPD and OpenDNS together. My experiment this evening will involve setting GPD as my primary DNS and OpenDNS as secondary DNS.
4) If you are running a wired or wireless router in your house, your router admin page should have settings which allow you to specify custom DNS settings for primary and secondary DNS.
Cheers and Safe Browsing!
Introduction to Google Public DNS
Why Google Public DNS?
As web pages become more complex and include more resources from multiple origin domains, clients need to perform multiple DNS lookups to render a single page. The average Internet user performs hundreds of DNS lookups each day, slowing down his or her browsing experience. As the web continues to grow, greater load is placed on existing DNS infrastructure.
Since Google's search engine already crawls the web on a daily basis and in the process resolves and caches DNS information, we wanted to leverage our technology to experiment with new ways of addressing some of the existing DNS challenges around performance and security. We are offering the service to the public in the hope of achieving the following aims:
- Provide end users with an alternative to their current DNS service. Google Public DNS takes some new approaches that we believe offer more valid results, increased security, and, in most cases, better performance.
- Help reduce the load on ISPs' DNS servers. By taking advantage of our global data-center and caching infrastructure, we can directly serve large numbers of user requests without having to query other DNS resolvers.
- Help make the web faster and more secure. We are launching this experimental service to test some new ways to approach DNS-related challenges. We hope to share what we learn with developers of DNS resolvers and the broader web community and get their feedback.
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I had a meeting this morning with J. Mikel Ellcessor (general manager of WDET) and we had a great discussion about the perception of the Detroit area by Detroiters (Detroit-proper + suburbs): tough, humble, creative, rich, vibrant vs. the perception of people outside of Detroit: cars, cars, metal, cars, motown.
He posed a great question in the voice of Detroit: "Who am I going to be tomorrow? I want to focus on that, because all anyone wants to talk about is who I was yesterday."
We're going to help answer that question.
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