Peering is the physical interconnection of separate networks for the purpose of exchanging traffic between the customers of each network. Immediately after Hurricane Sandy, we noticed massive packet loss between Verizon and Comcast. The most obvious example is loss of VPN and Remote Desktop connectivity between Verizon and Comcast sites. […]
Jim
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“Saturday Night Live” has offered its own satirical take on users’ complaints about the iPhone 5.
Have an iPhone and a Windows PC? Still using a cable to copy photos from your iPhone to your PC? There is a better way! With the launch of Apple’s iCloud, you can have all your photos from your iPhone or iPad download to your PC automatically and shed the […]
I recently heard that some 80 million Facebook accounts are actually fake users: Facebook: 8.7 percent are fake users Recently, Barracuda Labs released a study on Dealers and Abusers of fake Twitter accounts: The Twitter Underground Economy: A Blooming Business My first thoughts: how sad is it for someone to […]
Let’s go to Mars!
This morning I awoke to my computer complaining that it couldn’t find a bootable volume. Evidently it had rebooted itself. Oh no! Dusted out the case interior and booted right up. About an hour later, same thing, restarted itself then no bootable volume. I didn’t see it happen and there […]