Packets Down Range #17:Cogent Wavelengths, earnings news, DDoS

I am fresh back from Nanog #87 in Atlanta. Great times! Thank you to those who gave me some lines on this week’s news articles. Keep those submissions coming. By now, everyone who has signed up should be receiving this in their e-mail box. If you could simply comment at the bottom of this post … Read more

Apple adds Back Tap

Back Tap turns the entire back of your iPhone into a giant touch-sensitive button that you can double or triple tap to trigger specific functions on your phone. There’s a good chance that you haven’t noticed it yet. Apple slipped the settings for Back Tap into its Accessibility menu. https://www.theverge.com/21540028/apple-iphone-ios-14-back-tap-hidden-secret-button-gesture

Mounting old file system CDs on MacOS Catalina

Recently I had an issue with mounting older CD-Roms of backup files and such on MacOSX Catalina. Apparently, Apple dropped support for HFS volumes. In order to fix this it is pretty easy. You will need HomeBrew. Being a network geek I already have this installed. If you need to install this here is a … Read more

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