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‘LO’ Message Sent 40 Years Ago Today
Internet messages started with a crash 40 years ago today , and life hasn't been the same since. “We transmitted the ‘L’ … and the ‘O’ — and then the other computer crashed,” says UCLA's Leonard Kleinrock, who helped send that first message on...
Happy SysAdmin’s Day!
Since Ted Kekatos, a SysAdmin in the Chicago area suggested the day, to the first celebration on July 28, 2000. System Administrator Appreciation Day has become the one day a year set aside to show your appreciation for those people who keep all your...
Kudos to Obama for Appointing a Cybersecurity Czar
Those who know me, know that I don’t approve of much of what the Obama Administration has done so far; however I have to give the new POTUS kudos on a job well done, by creating the position of a “Cybersecurity Czar” President Obama spoke today about...
Testing Oomph!
Jim Restucci Axcess Internet Services, Inc.® jimr@axcess.us http://jimsweb.net
Happy Birthday RFCs – The RFC Celebrates 40th Anniversary
On this day in 1969, 20 years before the birth of the World Wide Web, the first Request for Comments (RFC) document was published in the series that has documented Internet standards, practices, and technical history for the past four decades. Writing...
ISOC mourns death of Internet Pioneer
Tributes flow after passing of Japanese Internet pioneer, Prof. Haruhisa Ishida, 9 March 2009 With great sadness, the Internet Society marks the passing of another pioneering figure of the Internet, Professor Haruhisa Ishida, who died on 9 March 2009...
China irks US with computer security review rules - Technology | Tri-City Herald : Mid-Columbia news
This one just makes you scratch your head and say, why?! Considering I spend a portion of my day stopping Chinese hackers (among other countries) from entering Axcess' network illegally, its strange why we would want to provide the Chinese government...
A 1969 perspective on computers in the future
A 1969 perspective on computers in the future | Classics Rock | TechRepublic.com
Net Neutrality
For those of you who don't know what it is, you need to learn and learn quickly. This is a dangerous time we live in, corporations are placing major strangleholds on our government and in some cases influencing policy to the point of "running...
On the scene: Microsoft's farewell to Gates
Most of you probably already know, but today was Bill's last day at Microsoft. On the scene: Microsoft's farewell to Gates Regards, jim®
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