A Few Quick Thoughts Regarding Twitter

By now most of us know what Twitter is. Of do we? I spent more than a few months with a Twitter account and no real idea how to use it. At first it seemed a lot like re-branded Instant Messaging and I already have plenty of choices for that. Did I really need another one? My business partner Nick kept telling me, “Dude, you need to get on this. It’s big.” I wasn’t initially... [Read more]

Pondering DNS Placement

I recently received an email asking about DNS server placement.  In part the email reads, “why whould a computer from the internet need to reach a “public” DNS server inside a private DMZ as if it were a web server? Are there occasions when a machine would need to reach accross the internet and resolve a private IP address? It seems backwards and highly unsecure, especially where... [Read more]

yUBUNTU? iBUNTU!

Linux servers are great.  It’s not really a point of debate.  The performance, the versatility, the stability… the list goes on.  But Linux server greatness isn’t what I sat down to write about today. Using Linux as a desktop OS, more specifically, using Linux as a replacement for Windows, has been a multi-year struggle for me.  Microsoft Windows is like any other addiction, I... [Read more]

64-Bit Vista … Buh-Bye!

As Yoda might say, “Done am I with Vista 64-bit.  Sucks it does.  Mmmm, yes.  Sucks.” Driver support is a catastrophe.  After all this time and with 64-bit rapidly becoming the norm I’m not sure how this is possible …but it is. 64-bit apps are few and far between.  80-90% of apps run in emulation mode (WoW64).  This constrains them to their native 32-bit processing. ... [Read more]

RFC 5453 - Can I Make it More Concise?

RFC 5453 is one of the shortest RFC’s I have ever read. RFC 5453, the most recent RFC dealing with IPv6 (a statement that will be true for about the next 10 minutes), addresses a real, albeit fairly unlikely, scenario.  The 64-bit interface identifier of a node’s global unicast address is randomly derived (via one of many possible mechanisms).  There is a possibility that a node can randomly... [Read more]