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Berners-Lee, Inventor of World Wide Web, on Net Neutrality

A graduate of Oxford University, England, Tim now holds the 3Com Founders chair at the Laboratory for Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He directs the World Wide Web Consortium, an open forum of companies and organizations with the mission to lead the Web to its full potential.

With a background of system design in real-time communications and text processing software development, in 1989 he invented the World Wide Web, an internet-based hypermedia initiative for global information sharing. while working at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory. He wrote the first web client (browser-editor) and server in 1990.

Before coming to CERN, Tim worked with Image Computer Systems, of Ferndown, Dorset, England and before that as a principal engineer with Plessey Telecommunications, in Poole, England.

Net Neutrality: This is serious
When I invented the Web, I didn’t have to ask anyone’s permission. Now, hundreds of millions of people are using it freely. I am worried that that is going end in the USA. Read more »

Save the Internet! Voice your opinion to Congress in support of Net Neutrality regulation.

Over the past few months or so I had seen and heard about the whole prospect of the government legally empowering providers to pick and choose what content they wanted to prefer for their customers while relegating competing content into a virtual digital toilet. I hadn’t really paid much attention to it until recently, thinking it was just a bunch of bureaucratic hot air coming out of Washington and that it really couldn’t happen. Eventually, I began to realize what the real impact of this decision or lack thereof means to me as a paying customer and to the rest of the Internet industry, as well as the fact that the Service Providers are spending millions to lobby Congress and publish misinformational ads and propaganda about this whole issue.

I don’t think that I can stress enough how dire the consequences can be for every Internet user if the Government allows the providers to have their way and not regulate their neutrality. I think that most people who use the Internet don’t believe this issue will affect them. That couldn’t be further from the truth. Read more »

This story is rife with irony. Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy…

ITworld.com - Even the Builders of Windows Find Tech Support a Challenge

Joel Shore, ITworld.com

I’m just back from Seattle, where I attended the Microsoft Windows Vista Reviewer’s Workshop. An enormous amount of information was presented, and now that the non-disclose embargo has been lifted, you’ll be reading a great deal about Vista here and in other places in the coming months.

But what intrigued me most was the last scheduled item of the day, a simple Q&A#038; session with Jim Allchin, the brilliant mind behind Windows Vista, Windows XP, and, years before that, the Banyan VINES network operating system.

Jim, as down to earth as ever as he nears the release of Vista and then sails off into retirement from Microsoft, was amazingly candid in answering questions. He talked about how Microsoft vastly underestimated the security needs of its products and how enormously painful it was to bring XP’s SP2 to market. Read more »

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

So I am finally going to Las Vegas for the first time this June for the Cisco Networkers conference. I’ve seen and read plenty about Vegas but, having never been there before, I am sure I am in for an interesting time, to say the least. Not to mention it is my first time at the Networkers conference, if you can believe it.

Anyway, I am looking forward to the trip. The only downside is I need to take a CCIE Written Exam while I am there so I can recertify. Read more »

So here’s another techie post but you can’t blame me. After all I spend nearly a third of my life working on this stuff.

Anyway, having worked in a bank for the past 6 years, I have gotten used to the omnipotent Big Brother always lurking over my shoulder to track what I am doing. However, having designed or been involved in the implementation of most of those systems in my last job, I knew all of the controls in place and how to quietly get around them for my own convenience and benefit. You know it is annoying when someone in HR decides it is a good idea to block access to certain website categories or even specific websites for one reason or another. I totally agree with policies blocking all the obscene content and things that just don’t belong in the workplace. But blocking my access to certain Multimedia content, Google Desktop, or Distributed Computing sites seems rather Midieval to me.

So, enough with that crap. Read more »