Today’s Stumper – DNS

Our domain at work is handled by Network Solutions (yeah yeah, I know, don’t start with me. I inherited them!) We also use netsol’s name servers for all our DNS management.

So, I have entries like:

Host
Record Type
Value

@
A
aaa.bb.cc.ddd

www
A
aaa.bb.cc.ddd

secure
A
aaa.bb.cc.ddd

demo
A
aa.bbb.ccc.dd

vpn
A
a.b.c.d

 
MX
aspmx.l.google.com

cal.domain.com
CNAME
ghs.google.com

mail.domain.com
CNAME
ghs.google.com

 
 
 

(the a.b.c.d groupings just represent various “real” IP addresses of my servers. You can see from the MX and CNAME

Continue reading Today’s Stumper – DNS



Google Sites – the Hosted Wiki

You’ve no doubt heard by now that Google launched Google Sites recently (this morning?). Gsites is the latest offering for the Google Apps family and focuses on collaboration to complement the email and documents stuff.

From the announcement email I received this evening:

Google Sites makes creating a team web site as easy as editing a document.

Continue reading Google Sites – the Hosted Wiki

Google Talk Chatback

The Google Talk folks have rolled out a new way to allow web site visitors chat with you. They’re calling it chatback and at first glance it seem comparable to Meebo Me but (arguably) a bit more lightweight. (I first mentioned Meebo Me in August of ‘06).

It really is not just like Meebo Me

Continue reading Google Talk Chatback

Adobe AIR 1.0 — Still No Linux

Adobe AIR 1.0 has been released. Still Windows and Mac and English only. Still no Linux. Pfooey.

Upcoming versions are expected to be available for Linux and other languages.

Wonder how long it is for “upcoming?”

Live SkyDrive -- Multiple File Uploading

Updated: You might be interested in SkyDrive Explorer for multiple file uploading.

This past week I saw quite a few tech and blog articles getting giddy about the new Windows Live SkyDrive changes –especially about the 5GB of free storage included. Sounds great doesn’t it?

A free 5GB to store stuff is pretty compelling and, as

Continue reading Live SkyDrive — Multiple File Uploading

  • [blogged] A Quick Look at Log Parser http://goo.gl/fb/cACd 6 hours ago
  • I think I have some sort of system "event" every time local SQL Server User Group meets. I've missed the last 7(?) months now. Conspiracy? 8 hours ago
  • I guess I know which server gets a long overdue rebuild next. 8 hours ago
  • One of my remaining (and critical) Win2k servers tipped over today -- couldn't find boot disk. chkdsk /r from recov. console fixed it #phew 8 hours ago
  • LogParser isn't slow at all. My bad. The GUI I was using was crapping the bed. Rocking the command line now -- much better! 15 hours ago
  • perhaps I'm expecting too much, but Microsoft's LogParser 2.2 seems REALLY slow 16 hours ago