What every IT person needs to know about OpenBSD Part 3: That packet filter
Guest Post: Useful and fun features related to the OpenBSD packet filter.
Tag: history
What every IT person needs to know about OpenBSD Part 2: Why use OpenBSD?
Guest Post: What is OpenBSD like for a user or developer, and why is it better?
All the Gs, part 2: 2G to 4G
Part two of this series explores how 2G became 4G.
What every IT person needs to know about OpenBSD Part 1: How it all started
Guest Post: OpenBSD remains a crucial yet largely unacknowledged player in the open-source field.
All the Gs, part 1: Governing the radio spectrum
To understand broadband cellular network technology, it’s important to appreciate the history of the radio spectrum.
Opinion: The Internet’s next fifty years
What will be the nature and requirements of networks 50 years from now?
A brief history of the RFC format
No overstriking allowed! Why do RFCs have such strict text requirements?
Where text protocols came from, and why they’re not going anywhere
Text protocols can be read by humans, but they come with drawbacks. Do we need them?
Another chapter in the decline of the traditional telcos
Deregulation and the rise of CDNs has some telcos questioning the future of international transit.
The answer’s in the post
What can the experience of the Universal Postal Union tell us about the Internet’s arrangements for settlement and peering?