Your Personal Tracking Service ... part 1

What a glorious invention. We are coming from Alexander Graham Bell's 1876  invention of the simple  telephone all the way to the iPhone, AnDroid, and Blackberry cell phones of today. Can you imagine what it would be like not to have cell phones  to communicate and stay in touch all the time? Can you? The transition has been explosive and is seen when you compare the early invention to where it is now.

Wireless Networks - Wi-Fi.. a blessing or curse?

Most if not everyone connecting to the internet these days would have used some kind of wireless connection at some point. It seems the CAT5 cable is going out of style when it comes on to personal and even business uses.  Wi-Fi is  hip and cool and you don't have to contend with the cables that are time consuming to run and sometimes hard to look at, and are at times, hazardous. Wi-Fi is really such a simple piece of technology we use everyday that it almost becomes a requirement for every household. Yes, you need electricity, water, and wireless! I'm just now waiting for the 'Wi-Fi is the next best thing since sliced bread' phrase to start taking over the airwaves.

My Network Story … part 1

I grew up with a computer at home in the mid 1980s. I don’t remember much about it now but it was a RISC (reduced instruction set computer) that only allowed you to do very basic things with the hardware and software. Yet  I do remember that I only ever used that PC to play Pac Man. The best game of that era that allowed you to eat ghosts when they turned blue.  Oh I wish I could get a real pill that turns my ghosts blue on my angry days…face it, everybody has a few ghosts.

IPv4 and Jamaica

It is not widely known that the IPv4 addresses have all been used up across the world. If you're not in the IT industry, it might not even matter to you anyways. There are even some people that will say the IPv4 ranges have only been distributed but not used up. Yet IANA has no more IPv4 addresses to distribute even if I needed just one, so I think i'm right in saying they are all used up and not may people will argue with that point. ISPs across the world, including those in Jamaica, will need a solution for the future.