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File Sharers Don’t Like to Wait for the Ratings Period.

By Tom Koltai

The new episode of House returned to Fox TV on Monday night at 8:00 PM after a two week hiatus in the US for the World Series.   For us down-under (according to Nicky at Channel Ten Programming department,) we will have to wait for an as yet unspecified return date  - Next year, but [...]

The Cowardice of the Internet Bully Boys – or AFACTS –v- Christians.

By Tom Koltai

In Ben Hur, we were introduced by Hollywood to the concept that some peoples idea of entertainment was pitting a man against a Tiger or Lion as a sport.   All that happened was that the “cat” sated it’s enforced hunger by eating the only meat in it’s reach, which unfortunately for the Christian, was [...]

P2P -v- Akamai.

By Tom Koltai

In 1994, AS CEO of Australia’s fastest growing ISP, I insisted that we install W3c cache servers at each dial-in pop around Australia.   And we cached the “J” server from Palo Alto to our Portland Oregon offices and then replicated that in Sydney.   All DNS queries on the Ausnet network stayed in Australia [...]