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I'm always amazed how people get themselves all tied in a knot when the topic of VLANs comes up. At the most basic level, a VLAN is nothing more than a broadcast domain. The only difference between a traditional broadcast domain and one defined by a VLAN is that traditionally a broadcast domain has been seen as a distinct physical entity whose boundaries consist of…
Larry Dague could be described with many labels: college drop-out, musician, diver, programmer, web designer, even inventor. The one that is most evident now, however, is online success.
An interesting question was recently asked of me in one of the Marketing Challenge's Private Site discussion forums by Yasser Masood, the owner and webmaster of http://www.computerarticles.com/.
In the past, I often declared that the Internet is not a communications medium. It's much more than that. I'm not alone as even the government thinks the same way I do. For example, my country's telecommunications watchdog -- the Canadian Radio and Telecommunications Commission (or CRTC, which is comparable to the American FCC) -- officially declared so in 1999.
A student of mine, Jeff, recently graduated from my web development class. He's new to the industry and trying to build his own business. He once asked me the following question, which I thought was interesting:
