Tag Archives: Internet
How Important Is Your EMail Address To You?
Really it’s not clear to me if this is a generational thing or what, people tell me that email addresses are no longer that important to them, what with MySpace, FaceBook, and the like. Others just use SMS, where their … Continue reading
Unwitting Mules and Computers
When I first traveled through Switzerland some 16 years ago, I went to France for the day, leaving from Geneva. On entering France, the guards saw a long, curly haired, American in a rental car, and they assumed I would … Continue reading
Off to Dublin (well sort of)!
Today, the Internet Engineering Task Force begins its 72nd in person meeting. The IETF as it is known is a standards organization that primarily focuses on, well, the Internet. The work done in this body has included Multimedia Internet Mail … Continue reading
Perhaps I Was Right, Long Ago
We are running out of addresses for the current version of the Internet Protocol, IPv4. That protocol allows us to have 2^32 devices (about 4 billion systems minus the overhead used to aggregate devices into networks) connected to the network … Continue reading
