dotDK is not going to administer .dk

Finally.

After months of waiting on the Danish National IT and Telecom Agency to make their final decision on who is going to administer the .dk TLD, they finally announced that it is not going to be dotDK afterall. As it turned out, they were unable to gain the needed support from the Danish Internet community to be allowed the responsibility. Instead, DK-Hostmaster and DIFO is going to continue the administration.

I can only support this decision – in my mind, it never seemed to be a terribly good idea to break the centralized control with the TLD and use a shared registry. It is nice to always know where the .dk domains are administered from (especially when you need to make changes to them). My only hope is that DK-Hostmaster is going to implement some of the nice suggestions that have been put forward during the last months (like DNSSEC and a better administration interface).

Source: Version2 (Danish)

Posted in Technology, Web | November 25th, 2008 | Comments

Adobe launches Flash Linux x64, makes The Daily Show and The Colbert Report play

Via Miia Ranta’s Blog I discovered that Adobe launched a Flash Linux plugin for the x64 architecture. The fastest way to install it on a Ubuntu 8.10 system is to download the package flashplugin-nonfree – 10.0.12.36ubuntu2~ppa1 from Kees Cook’s PPA. But if installing it, be warned that there is no guarantee that the plugin works. Also, before installing the package, remove the package nspluginwrapper by doing

sudo apt-get remove nspluginwrapper

Though there is no guarantee that the plugin works as expected (it is an alpha prerelease version afterall), it seems to work perfect for me. It has made it possible for me to watch the full episodes of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. Yay!

Posted in Bits, Software, Technology, Web | November 17th, 2008 | Comments