Can anyone recommend a decent and free dynamic dns client? The downloadable version that I used to use now has a bug in it that means it doesn’t work. Thats not too much of an issue as my router now has built in ddns client functionality, but it prevents me writing correct documentation for my first HelpMeHelpYou article on Dynamic Dns registration. The first in a series of guides that will assist people in setting up their pc’s so I can provide remote assistance.
Discovered by accident that Microsoft have a Web Admin tool. It looks like it is meant to be used for isps and asp’s but also looks like it may be used inhouse for enterprise management. I’ve downloaded a copy to play with and also the documentation as I think it modifys the Active Directory which I’m a bit nervous about doing on our live AD setup.
Discovered SQLStripes today which sits and monitors your sql servers for services, agents and drops. Has useful right click to remote control the machine via vnc, pcanywhere or rdp. Also double click interface to browse database, tables and data. Pretty nifty.
Win2VNC is an excellent utility that brings in other monitors to your desktop. Normal vnc brings the desktop of your remote machine into a window on your local desktop. Win2VNC keeps the monitor on the remote machine and sends your mouse and keyboard to the other screen. So you get more screen real estate and still only need one mouse and keyboard. Thanks to Chris for mentioning the unix version of this
Looks like there might be a new virus doing the rounds as I’ve received several bounces where i’m the “reply to” field in the email. The body of the email contains different subjects, so far i’ve had “your password”, sophos virus removal tools, ie6 patch etc… The good news is that I think I know who got infected with this one.
Tested my bandwidth on the laptop this morning and got a respectable 503.1Kbps or 61.7Kbytes/sec which is as expected. I’m going to test it in the office to see what that gives as I’m sure we are not getting the full bandwidth we pay for (or MRTG is not reporting it correctly!)
Apparently when posting bold text and italic text you are meant to use strong and em tags instead of b and i tags (which look like bold and italic) due to the latter tags being used for formatting and don’t *mean* anything. Personally i reckon that bold text means a lot more to people that strong text does. Does this mean that one day we are going to see the Worlds Strongest Text on tv (with the endless repeats?). Thanks to A List Aparts page on hacking dreamweaver which incidentally looks like a good way of customising the editor. Zempt uses the strong and em tags when writing posts, but bloggar doesn’t. Fortunately in this case I happened to use Zempt to write this post.
I’ve set up iTunes on the desktop machine and added all my mp3’s so that they are all in one place. I’ve enabled sharing and look for sharing. The help says at this point a Shared image appears under source. Unfortunately the image in the online help is missing so I can’t see what its meant to look like AND the shared files doesn’t appear. The other bad thing is that it uses (yet another) audio format, AAC, which naturally doesn’t work with much else so its yet another place to store music in. Not impressed.
I’ve set up iTunes on the desktop machine and added all my mp3’s so that they are all in one place. I’ve enabled sharing and look for sharing. The help says at this point a Shared image appears under source. Unfortunately the image in the online help is missing so I can’t see what its meant to look like AND the shared files doesn’t appear. The other bad thing is that it uses (yet another) audio format, AAC, which naturally doesn’t work with much else so its yet another place to store music in. Not impressed.
Anyone have any ideas why my w2k machine would just suddenly reboot itself to the bios screen and start backup again? It doesn’t seem to be a windows crash as I’d expect a blue screen if that was the case. Sometimes it will do it at random, but other times its reproducable. I downloaded a gif file this morning and everytime I loaded it into a certain application it would reboot. However loading into paintshoppro, saving as a jpg it was fine. Resizing the itunes app to fit the width of my screen (they don’t have a maximize button strangely) caused it to reboot.
Booting to recovery console and chkdsk of all drives initially said they were ok, but then I did a chkdsk c: /p which forces it to do a chkdsk and it found some errors, so then it was a chkdsk c: /r to repair. Then i’ll have to do f,g,h,i,j and k….. a long afternoon.