Internet

Internet related blog postings.

Decision on internet throttling delayed
Posted : Friday October 24th, 2008

The CRTC delayed ruling on the throttling issue again claiming that as a complex issue it's taking tim...read more

Regulating the frontier
Posted : Thursday October 16th, 2008

The CRTC is looking at reviewing it's regulations with regards to online content. Now this doesn't mea...read more

Please. Take my (silver)wife
Posted : Friday September 12th, 2008

So I see Microsoft is now resorting to throwing in dialogs during installation of other products to please, please, for the love of all please, install Silverlight. Silv...read more

Logic is not your strong suit
Posted : Tuesday September 9th, 2008

No matter the language for discussion forums about programming the same types of people appear. These would be the ones who don't search first for answers, or read the documenta...read more

Trying out Google Chrome
Posted : Tuesday September 2nd, 2008

So far I really like. The UI is simple, perhaps too simple but I seem to be getting around okay so far. I also don't know, yet, how to enable Java for it. On the...read more

Mac Mail Sillyness
Posted : Saturday August 30th, 2008

For the record when it comes to Mac I am firmly in the camp of ambivalence. It's not for me but if you like it that's fine. What I don't care for is those who suggest th...read more

Can a community change?
Posted : Wednesday August 27th, 2008

So recently I was invited to be, and accepted to be a moderator on a fairly popular programming forum. I have been a member of the forum in one form or another for about 9 years....read more

Enough with the AJAX already
Posted : Tuesday August 26th, 2008

So recently Facebook updated (I can't even use the word upgraded here) their interface. It now has more AJAX and other JavaScript then ever before. The result of which is that I...read more

Accident or Google Conspiracy
Posted : Wednesday August 13th, 2008

As these things usually go I wanted to just fire up my copy of MS Visual Web Developer (free edition) to demanglitize (okay so it's not a real word but you should try it out any...read more

Time for ISP responsibility
Posted : Friday July 25th, 2008

So several weeks after the DNS flaw was first announced, and several days after details were leaked on the internet ...read more

Keep a lid on it
Posted : Tuesday July 22nd, 2008

So if you don't know there was been a fairly large story about a security hole in DNS. In short a problem in the way that most cacheing DNS servers are implemented means that th...read more

4 minutes till doomsday
Posted : Tuesday July 15th, 2008

In a story published Sunday to the SANS Internet Storm blog, the average survival time for an unpatched Windows compute...read more

It's your name, you should own it
Posted : Monday July 14th, 2008

I have been dealing with another client who is having problems due to lack of control of their own domain name. I can't emphasize this enough. If you have a website you ...read more

Scum sucking weasels
Posted : Friday July 11th, 2008

Today I am going to help expose a fraudulent little operation known as the Domain Registry of Canada because once again they have started bother...read more

Google paranoia... again
Posted : Wednesday July 2nd, 2008

So yesterday, July 1st, was Canada Day, our national holiday here. Unlike most previous years though Google ...read more

Newer entries

Older entries