by jnelson | Aug 18, 2012 | How the Net Works, News, Resources
High-speed broadband access is not a luxury anymore, but a necessity. Old-fashioned dial-up is really barely able to cope with email much less modern webpages. They simply have too much going on for dial-up to handle, with all their widgets and scripts, the interactive features, animated graphics and videos.
by jnelson | Jun 13, 2012 | Events, How the Net Works, News
The world passed a significant milestone on June 6, and no one noticed the great sigh of relief that went up around the world. And that’s just the way it should be. On that day, World IPv6 Launch Day, the new Internet addressing system, was successfully put to...
by Mark Costlow | Feb 23, 2012 | How the Net Works, News
This post is from guest blogger Peter H. Mantos of Albuquerque business consultancy Mantos Consulting, Inc. (Also a long-time SWCP customer) The business community is well aware of the need to backup critical computer systems. However, very few small businesses have...
by jnelson | Jan 28, 2012 | How the Net Works, Interesting Items, News
Internet activists who are celebrating the apparent defeat of the SOPA and PIPA bills have found their party already interrupted by the appearance, or rather, re-appearance of a piece of legislation that could have an even more significant effect: ACTA, the...
by jnelson | Jan 21, 2012 | Events, How the Net Works, News
The first battle over copyright on record was an actual physical battle. Around 560, Columba, an Irish monk, copied out a book of psalms, intending to keep it for himself. This was disputed by St. Finnian, owner of the original volume who had lent it to him to read....
by jnelson | Jan 13, 2012 | How the Net Works, Interesting Items, News, Resources
Believe it or not, right here in Albuquerque, a 21st-century metropolis that some science fiction writers once imagined as the future capital of the Solar System, there are still many neighborhoods and small areas where it is impossible to get highspeed DSL Internet...