Archive for the ‘Computing’ Category

Hijacked DNS?

Sunday, January 28th, 2007

Today I found that one of my domains was not displaying my website, but instead was showing visitors a list of Google AdWords sponsored links, and throwing malicious pop-under windows. I did a quick ping, nslookup and a whois query on it. The ping replied from 66.45.237.187. Not my ...

Too bad they don’t make six disc DVD-RW changers

Sunday, May 21st, 2006

This morning I decided to download and burn a copy of the latest Ubuntu Linux beta. We have an extra PC sitting up on the shelf next to the 2003 Server and I figured I'd use it for something. When I hit the 'Burn' button in Nero, I ...

It has begun

Thursday, April 6th, 2006

FYI: I have been using the same AMD Athlon XP 2200+ (1.8GHz) processor since early 2002. For some, hell even MOST people, this would be perfectly sufficient. In fact, this PC has never really given me any grief. From a non-gaming standpoint, it will do anything I ask ...

Three rules for storing important files…

Friday, September 16th, 2005

Backup, backup and backup. Unfortunatlely, keeping backups of everything can be quite expensive and logistically difficult when you have as much data as Michele and I had. We lost approximately 400GB of stuff from two of our hard drives. Pictures, writings, software, music, ebooks, and various other files. Luckily my ...

I become more geeky with every passing day

Thursday, August 18th, 2005

I got my linux machine up and serving web pages tonight. This is not a huge milestone or anything, just something I've not had the resources for or taken the time to try before. It's just one more thing that I can tell people "yeah, I can do that". ...