Wireless networking might not rank up there with flying cars, but it’s still plenty cool and very useful. (Plus, it actually exists.) But wireless data can be exposed to interception, and although we have encryption protocols intended to prevent security breaches, they are not always 100% effective.
Read he rest of this excellent article over at: […]
The Network Reserach Lab (NRL) a part of the University of California’s Computer Science Dept is working on turning your car into a Wi-Fi hotpsot. Its stated aim is to “enable communications with “roadside base station” and also between vehicles, for the purposes of safety, driving assistance, and entertainment.” Read more about it here.
Naturally any […]
An email has just turned up in my inbox with the above heading - having just gone through a process of having to reconfigure my son’s wireless setup (he likes to play) I decided to take a read.
Here’s the full article but be warned it is quite lengthy.
It is summarised at the end with the […]
IPv6 is on its way. We are, so we keep getting told, running out of IPv4 range of addresses and my thought whenever I see these headlines are to wonder where have all the IPv4 range gone to?
Well, I spent yesterday with my teenager wandering around one of the venerable UK institutions known as a […]
Do you have spare capacity on your broadband connection or just feeling benevolent?
Then grab yourself pretty much any old PC, stuff two network cards in, make sure it has a bootable CD drive, minimum 128Mb of RAM and then download yourself a copy of Zone CD. Oh and depending on your confidence levels you’ll have […]
For those who have a CCNA and have been hiding under a shell, now is the time to check your expiration date.
Why? Well Cisco has recently announced that it is once more changing the exam - if memory serves this is iteration 6 - anyway, you have until November 5th, 2007 (inclusive) to resit or […]
I used to joke in my last job that DNS was the root of all problems in an Active Directory domain. Whilst this is not true, 9 out of 10 times I said it I was right. DNS - most of us have probably heard of it and we may even know what the initials […]
This post is fast becoming a monster - am I saying too much or is this helping? I certainly don’t know but I trust that this content is helping some out there. Part 1 which dealt with guidelines is here and Part 2 which ended up covering just URL filtering is here.
So, what other areas […]
In my first part of this series I talked about our need as parents to engage in our children’s use of the internet and that we need to establish guidelines. I touched on why I feel this is so and clarified what my guidelines are with the main one being that we must talk to […]
Following on from my post about keeping our children safe the other day I wanted to continue on that theme but drill it down to more specifics on how or why we should monitor our children. It’s likely I’ll split this article into a why we should (or shouldn’t) and then do a follow up […]
