Friday 30, 2007

OpenDNS and Local Host Names, a Work Around

In a previous article entitled OpenDNS is a Better DNS, I explained some of the benefits to using OpenDNS. A brief recap for the boys a girls on what OpenDNS is:
OpenDNS uses its distributed network of DNS servers to speed up your Internet experience, increase reliability, improve security and make DNS smarter for [...]

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Thursday 29, 2007

Ask a Ninja Gone Mainstream

The latest Ask a Ninja is extremely funny. They did a special “interview” with Will Ferrell and Jon Heder for the new movies Blades of Glory. It’s great to see a home grown video-cast become large enough to do main stream interviews. This has to be one of the funniest episodes I have seen [...]

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Behind the P2P: Where are They Now?
Wednesday 28, 2007

Behind the P2P: Where are They Now?

When writing the article yesterday about backup solutions, I cleaned out a whole bunch of old software from my archives. A lot of old P2P applications that I guess I was holding onto for historical purposes. I was very intrigued with where these companies/software projects were these days. In an shameless rip from VH1’s Behind [...]

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Tuesday 27, 2007

The Road to the Perfect Backup Plan

I recently took some load off of my file server and got a NAS device, no not the rapper. Previously my file server had a bunch of internal hard drives setup up in various RAID arrays. Now my NAS has all of my hard drives and my file server runs the Subversion server, backup [...]

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Monday 26, 2007

Mark Russinovich in His New Role at Microsoft

If you haven’t heard of Mark Russinovich that you need to take a look at Wikipedia to brush up on some history. Mark’s former company he starter Winternals was acquired by Microsoft, and Mark is now a Technical Fellow in Windows and is a member of the Windows Core Architecture team. What does this mean? [...]

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