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Messing Around with IPv6 Temporary Addresses in Windows

Views: 18,740Yesterday I wanted to mess around with IPv6 Temporary addresses on my computer. Let me start with an overview of IPv6 Temporary addresses. IPv6 Temporary Addresses are a feature designed to enhance privacy for devices using the IPv6 protocol. In the IPv6 addressing scheme, devices typically have both a permanent (static) address and one

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Artificial Intelligence Tools that you May Find Useful

Views: 4,881The following are some AI tools that you may find very useful in your life and even small business.  For example, Microsoft is in the process of launching a Microsoft 365 AI based assistant called Copilot for the office suite of programs (you can read more about this here:  https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2023/03/16/introducing-microsoft-365-copilot-a-whole-new-way-to-work/) There are a lot of

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A Dive Into Network Troubleshooting

Views: 25,702This blog article is a culmination of my years of experience in the networking and computing worlds. Over those years, where I began as a bench and field technician, I have had a number of classes that my employers sent me to to teach troubleshooting skills. Usually termed with the words “logical troubleshooting” or

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The World’s (Generally) Most Important RFC’s of the Internet

Views: 2,209Got to thinking the other day.  What are the world’s most important RFC’s (Request for Comment specifications)? I decided to make a list. While the following are not in any order, I tried to base them (mostly) on date.  While TCP came first, I still put the Internet Protocol on the top of the

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What will be the truth regarding the Facebook Outage of 10/4/21?

Views: 2,427It is the morning after.  Approximately 24 hours ago, Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, and more, went down.  Why?  How?  From the early indications of what is being said, I don’t think the general public will ever be told the whole truth.  This is especially going to be the case if there is a design problem

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Designing Courses for Online Web Based Training

Views: 8,084The Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic and the COVID-19 disease has changed our lives: the way we socialize, travel, exercise, work, play, and learn.  Social distancing by working from home and learning from home has become a requirement, not just a lucky or cool thing.  This has resulted in an almost overnight dependency and test of

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CBRS Certified Professional Installer (CPI) Services

Views: 4,381CellStream is proud to announce, and congratulates, Mr. Andrew Walding on attaining his CBRS Certified Professional Installer certification from Google!  As discussed in the CBRS overview article, CBRS license holders need an account with one of the SAS providers, and then they need a CPI to actually certify and log their CBSD/Antennas into the

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CBRS – the new way to allocate Wireless Spectrum

Views: 3,727If you haven’t heard by now, there is a new and innovative way to allocate wireless spectrum.  It is called CBRS – or Citizens Broadband Radio Service.  In our opinion every service provider, rural or otherwise, should be actively engaging this new methodology and ramping yup their awareness and participation in CBRS.  In fact,

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