March 23, 2020
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Comments Off on Slow Wi-Fi? 8 ways to speed up your home office network
Now that you need your internet connection for work, video-conferencing, and Netflix, it’s time to tune up your home network. Slow Wi-Fi? 8 ways to speed up your home office network More>
February 27, 2020
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Comments Off on Let’s Encrypt issues one-billionth web security certificate
It wasn’t that long ago that most websites weren’t secured with Transport Layer Security (TLS) encryption. You could tell because the sites started with HTTP instead of HTTPS. Today, 81% of web pages use HTTPS globally, and 91% are secured … Continue reading
February 26, 2020
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Comments Off on The for-profit takeover of the non-profit ‘.org’ top-level domain
At first glance, the proposed deal makes little sense. The Internet Society is trying to sell the non-profit Public Interest Registry (PIR), the registry for the “.org” top-level domain (TLD), to the new private-equity firm Ethos Capital for $1.135 billion. There are about 10.5 million … Continue reading
March 12, 2019
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Comments Off on The Web turns 30: Dream or nightmare?
In March 1989, Tim Berners-Lee submitted a proposal for an information management system to his boss, Mike Sendall. Sendall’s reply? “Vague, but exciting.” We know it today as the web. We’ve come a long, long way since then. The Web turns 30: … Continue reading
March 4, 2019
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Comments Off on CoreDNS: The DNS for cloud-native computing
I have a t-shirt which reads, from top to bottom: “It’s not DNS. There’s no way it’s DNS. It was DNS!” As every sysadmin knows, all too many network problems boil down to a Domain Name System (DNS) blunder. That’s already annoying, … Continue reading
February 15, 2019
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Comments Off on The EU’s new copyright laws threaten to destroy the internet
Do you like sharing your favorite music videos like Old Crow Medicine Show’s Wagon Wheel? Do you use Twitter to track news stories like this one about President Trump? Do you link to interesting stories on Facebook? Well, if the latest version of the … Continue reading