The Hæven of John

You’ve made the switch to nginx ("engine-x")? You want to run Friendica on your nginx-powered server?

Here’s a short guide on how you can setup your Friendica to run on Nginx. So jump on in…

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The Hæven of John™ blognet has moved to a new server. It was smoother than I expected, way, way transparent, all thanks to Cloudflare.com.

If you see any bugs, please don’t hesitate to reply back. Thank you, and expect new posts in the following days.

Back in the 3^rd of December 2009, I wrote about how to connect to next-gen Internet, if you haven’t read it, it was about IPv6 or Internet Protocol version 6.

IPv6 is the answer to our IPv4 problem - we ran out of IP addresses to give last year, in 2011! With more ISPs, businesses, and even individuals needing IP addresses to deploy their products, there is no stopping the growth of the Internet and the high demand for more IP addresses.

But with IPv4 depleted already, where do we get more IP addresses? Nothing left. Zero. What do you expect from IPv4 when it can only give 2³² IP addresses? That translates to 4,294,967,296 IPv4 addresses only. The answer is IPv6 and it’s launching this year, are you ready?

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Back in 2^nd quarter of 2011 Google and AOL rolled-out their Google Talk and AIM interoperability feature. Meaning, users can add and communicate to users of the other network, similar to what then “MSN Messenger” (now “WLM“) and Yahoo! Messenger did years back.

It was great news in the Instant Messenger ("IM") world. Interoperability between separate networks is a must have today, especially when it comes to doing business globally. Imagine one IM account that can communicate with other IM networks, bliss right?

Yes.

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