Abandoned Stuff by Saskboy

From flickr

The Net Neutrality rally was this morning on Parliament Hill. There will need to be more action on this, to keep our Internet free. People in Ontario are having a harder time finding ISPs that are not being “Shaped” by Bell. Packet Shaping is the process by which an Internet provider can restrict certain type of traffic, to give higher priorities to special applications. This can make using some software impossible, and hurts net neutrality - the ISP is no longer indifferent to what programs you use on the Internet.

Many universities use this kind of technology to keep P2P programs frustratingly slow, in an attempt to defend bandwidth used by other applications like web browsers, and instant messengers.

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Hat tip to Slashdot.org

More reading about Charlie’s bill.

February 19, 2002
This web format is a bit of an experiment. I may change the interface in my editor so that I can write more effectively. [update Mar. 18: experiment failed; I'm going to put my text in another way, since much of one of my stories was half deleted.] Ah, don’t go! I’ll keep the tech blab at a minimum from now on… Today was a slow TV day, so I did some exercise, laundry, and updated my web site for the first time in weeks. I got my DSL installed yesterday, so I can finally video conference with my family, friends, and girlfriend. Too bad I’m going to Toronto on the weekend and won’t get to test it out ;-)