Cox Internet Service Still Sucks...

See that guy up there using a crank to start his car....That's what it's like to be on Cox Internet in Arizona.  I've been with them for 15 years.  The first 10 were pretty good...well...except for the time when they had an outage for 2 weeks that forced me to tether my phone to my laptop to get my email.  Then there was that couple of months when the connection dropped for 4 hours every night at midnight....Then there was...

Anyway, in a few days I'm going to give Centurylink (their only competition BTW) a try again.  It's been 15 years since I had anything to do with DSL but about 2 years ago they tore up everybody's front lawns to lay new cable so maybe it'll be better.

In any case, it has to be better than this...

What do you know about IPV6?

Like it or not IPV6 is behind just about anything with a screen these days.  IPV6 lies at the backbone of the Internet and has been for years.  The reason is simple.  4.3 billion addresses and 7 billion people each with multiple devices.  Something's gotta give.  

That's where IPV6 comes in and if you plan on doing anything with IP networks you'd better brush up your skills.  Below is a good place to start.  So get on with it!

IPV6 Tutorial

IT on the cheap: Dealing with resource attacks

In a perfect world the Internet would be free, nobody would want to steal your stuff and bad people would be too stupid to do any harm.

Alas, we don't live in such a blissful Utopia and have to deal with the seedy underbelly of a connected world.  As such if you're the guy managing servers and networks you have to be concerned about security.

It doesn't matter how deftly you can crank out pages of powershell commands if your network is under attack.  Worse, if you don't have the budget for the latest IDS (Intrusion Detection System) you're going to have to do some of the heavy lifting.

Thankfully, it's not that hard and while not the ideal scenario you can improve security even if your tools come from Ebay and Best Buy sales.

So take a look at the video below while I walk you through some basic security procedures and deal with an ongoing attack.