The FCC approved a set of Net Neutrality rules today that many sum up as a compromise of the related issues debated in the past few years on the topic. The vote which passed by a single vote at 3 to 2 is expectedly controversial; one side says it doesn't do enough while the other complains that it oversteps the FCC's regulation capabilities. I felt NPR did a thorough and … [Read more...]
Blogging the First East Central Illinois Regional Broadband Summit
Last week, I had the privilege to attend the first East Central Illinois Regional Broadband Summit. The summit was put on by the East Central Illinois Development Corporation (ECIDC) and hosted in Mattoon, Illinois. The catalyst behind this summit gathering non-profit organizations and private corporations together stems from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 … [Read more...]
Amazon Announces New DNS Service Through their Amazon Simple Storage Service
Just last week, Amazon kicked WikiLeaks off of its Amazon S3 service for violating its Terms of Service. Shortly after that, WikiLeaks lost DNS services from EveryDNS and more recently, Paypal stopped processing donations made to the WikiLeaks account. With an announcement today, Amazon is now providing two out of those three things that WikiLeaks needs but isn't allowed to … [Read more...]
Networking Your House or Apartment Without Punching Holes In The Wall
One of the many things that had me excited about buying my own house was that I planned to network the heck out of it. I would run Cat6 cables to all the different rooms and be able to get connected anywhere. I still may run those network cables some day but for now I'm using an easier, more portable solution to getting the network into my farthest rooms and faster than the … [Read more...]
getmac – Easily See a MAC Address Locally And On The Network
A MAC address or physical address is frequently needed when troubleshooting network or broadband connections. (MAC should be all caps because it is an acronym, standing for Media Access Control. If I were talking about an Apple computer, or a Macintosh, it would be proper to use 'Mac'.) Sometimes you might need to provide your MAC address to get onto somebody's wireless (if … [Read more...]