March 8th.

I've been watching with interest the Microsoft http://www.origamiproject.com website. Origami is essentially their codename for an Ultra Mobile Portable Computer (UMPC) that they've been working on along with some OEM partners.

I routinely have new customers contact me saying that they've got security problems in their network.

They say that their ISA server isn't controlling/limiting traffic like it should.

Or they say that they're concerned about their exposure to viruses etc.

We always run online polls here at ahit.com.au, usually for a period of about 6 months. This gives us an idea of what the general public is thinking - folks other than our normal customers.

Heres the results of some previous polls:

Here at AHIT we routinely check out various news sites and the like to keep up to date with whats going on the in the IT/reseller/Internet world.

One of themany sources we check is the Australian Domain Registry (www.ausregistry.com.au). Their March 2005 domain report was interesting in that there's now just over 450,000 (yes, four hundred and fifty thousand) Australian .com.au domains registered. In total there's 571,869 domains registered.

If we had a dollar for every time someone asked us "What actually IS this ADSL thing?" we have.. , well, we'd have lots of dollars. The most common question that then follows on from this is "How does it work?".

Well, here's an attempt at answering both of those questions and a few more!