In the realm of network management, automating device provisioning stands as a critical and often challenging task. Recently a customer asked me to help them in automating the provisioning of Mikrotik devices. For those not familiar, Mikrotik produces a wide
Canada's Proposed Bill S-210 - Won't somebody please think of the children?
Recently, the Canadian political landscape witnessed a significant development with the passage of Bill S-210, also known as the Protecting Young Persons from Exposure to Pornography Act, through the Senate. Despite initial reluctance, Senators ultimately passed the bill in April,
CRTC 2023-358: A False Dawn for Canadian ISP Competition?
Today the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) released it's long awaited decision on Temporary access to fibre-to-the-premises facilities over aggregated wholesale high-speed access services. This decision is aimed to take action to address the declining competitive intensity
I got fucked by Clutch.ca
For many people, selling a car is no walk in the park. It's an intricate process that can often leave us feeling bewildered, under pressure, and quite frankly, underserved. These feelings can be amplified when we are dealing
AI Wrote My Book (and most of this post)
This is a small tale of how I got my first "book" published on Amazon - "Bytes of Desolation - Verses from the Digital Wasteland". As someone who's always wanted to be a "
Bell touts tired "investment" argument, incorrectly labels indy ISPs as "resellers"
In a recent LinkedIn post, Robert Malcolmson, Chief Legal and Regulatory Office for BCE Inc (Bell Canada) once again used the old tired "it harms investment" argument in response to the CRTCs ongoing consideration of expanding mandated access
My new favourite travel accessory - the GL.iNET GL-MT300N-V2 router
Recently I've been traveling more for work and found myself in need of a good travel router to connect all my devices while on the road. For example, when I'm in a hotel I often like
502 Bad Gateway, or how I broke my blog
For the past few years, I've been running this blog on the open source Ghost CMS and it's been great. Ghost is great for a site like this where the focus is on the content because