I have been working with AT&T to complete our bandwidth upgrade at the home office. The project took a lot longer than I had originally hoped and we ran into several unforeseen issues. It’s finished now though. It’s fast too!
Archive for the ‘Internet’ Category
13 Jan
Google Stands Up To China
Google is taking a courageous stand against China. Good for them!
We launched Google.cn in January 2006 in the belief that the benefits of increased access to information for people in China and a more open Internet outweighed our discomfort in agreeing to censor some results. At the time we made clear that “we will carefully monitor [...]
9 Nov
Goodbye Geocities
I remember setting up my first Geocities webpage back when I was in college. In 1995 anyone who could make their own webpage was some kind of technical wizard. I spent a lot of time hand coding html files with a text editor. Creating a website is a completely different process now.
This is the week [...]
5 Nov
Google Dashboard
Have you ever wondered how much data Google stores in your account? Check out the Google Dashboard, a new tool that shows you a list of every service that you use and provides links for managing your preferences. This tool will be tremendously helpful in figuring out exactly where your data is. Check it out!
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17 Oct
The Dangers Of Not Paying Attention
This blog post from the Internet Storm Center over at SANS highlights the need to pay attention to the setup of your server systems. We aren’t using this particular blacklist but it still highlights the point. This is why I spend so much time following mailing lists and keeping up with my feed reader. This [...]
20 Sep
FCC To Propose New Network Neutrality Rules
The FCC will be unveiling new rules on network neutrality at a presentation for The Brookings Institution tomorrow. This is a very exciting development for the protection of consumer rights on the Internet. It was also a major plank of President Obama’s technology platform. We should all be watching the outcome of this important development.
The [...]
28 Aug
Emergency Control Of The Internet
There is a bill now being written behind closed doors that would give the President the power to exert emergency control of the internet in times of emergency. If you are fortunate enough to be a company that is designated as a critical interest you could be subjected to forced removal from the internet when [...]
