j2 Briefing: FCC news, Microsoft whitespace, polls

The j2 Podcast for August 29, 2019 Microsoft is pushing it’s Whitespace product as a solution to the Digital divide. This has been branded “Airband” https://www.multichannel.com/news/microsoft-brands-rural-divide-national-crisis The FCC The commission unanimously voted to distribute more than $20 billion of Universal …

Is your Librenms ./daily.sh failing?

From the Folks over at LibreNMS Users of daily updates (the default), your installs will no longer update without a little manual intervention. It will not be an issue for those on the monthly updates. You will need to update …

Mikrotik 6.46 beta34 noteable things

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Circle City Con 7.0

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/circlecitycon-70-tickets-62810947234 Continuing our year after year record breaking attendance, CircleCityCon 7.0 promises to test our limits and deliver to you a conference unique from all the others. Since Circle 1 we have delivered trainings for free with the option to …

A network analogy

As I was working on some other articles a simple analogy came to me. The folks who build roads are rarely the people who build houses. As such, the server folks who build the digital houses typically don’t build the …