WiFi – Update No. 2
Each day that goes by makes it more clear that WiFi is taking a parallel course to what we saw with the web nearly ten years ago. Many grass roots initiatives are underway and many established leaders of major companies are unable to see the shift. WiFi is doing for “access” what the web did […]
Stupid
We arrived at our destination for the night and unloaded the car. When I removed the key from the ignition switch, the car beeped to warn me that the headlights were still turned on. It was my wife’s car and I am not as familiar with things as with my own car and I wondered […]
Speedpass – part 2
Recently my speedpass stopped working as I described in a prior posting.The nice folks at Speedpass sent me a replacement for the broken one and my others too. I was surprised to find that the Speedpass had a battery in it and still wonder why they didn’t just tell me to go to Radio Shack […]
Subscribing to patrickWeb
I have been getting a lot of email asking how to subscribe to the patrickWeb weblog. The simple answer is click here. While I am at it, here are a couple of paragraphs to answer some of the other most common questions I receive. I will continue to refine this over the days ahead.. What […]
Internet2 meeting
Thanks to Mike Nelson at IBM for providing this update about the Internet2 members’ meeting held in downtown Los Angeles. Internet2 is a consortium of about 200 colleges and universities and about 50 corporate partners working together to deploy and demonstrate high-speed networking applications. Internet2‘s Abilene backbone network runs at 2.4 gigabit/second with plans to […]