http://www.itdojo.com/blog Information Technology Training and Consulting Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:40:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 en hourly 1 http://www.itdojo.com/blog/2009/07/a-few-quick-thoughts-regarding-twitter/ http://www.itdojo.com/blog/2009/07/a-few-quick-thoughts-regarding-twitter/#comments Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:17:30 +0000 Colin http://www.itdojo.com/blog/?p=557 http://www.itdojo.com/blog/2009/07/a-few-quick-thoughts-regarding-twitter/feed/ http://www.itdojo.com/blog/2009/06/pondering-dns-placement/ http://www.itdojo.com/blog/2009/06/pondering-dns-placement/#comments Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:32:12 +0000 Colin http://www.itdojo.com/blog/?p=540 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 [...]]]> http://www.itdojo.com/blog/2009/06/pondering-dns-placement/feed/ http://www.itdojo.com/blog/2009/06/yubuntu-ibuntu/ http://www.itdojo.com/blog/2009/06/yubuntu-ibuntu/#comments Tue, 02 Jun 2009 20:23:09 +0000 Colin http://www.itdojo.com/blog/?p=513 http://www.itdojo.com/blog/2009/06/yubuntu-ibuntu/feed/ http://www.itdojo.com/blog/2009/03/64-bit-vista-buh-bye/ http://www.itdojo.com/blog/2009/03/64-bit-vista-buh-bye/#comments Wed, 25 Mar 2009 01:00:32 +0000 Colin http://www.itdojo.com/blog/?p=483 http://www.itdojo.com/blog/2009/03/64-bit-vista-buh-bye/feed/ http://www.itdojo.com/blog/2009/03/rfc-5453-can-i-make-it-more-concise/ http://www.itdojo.com/blog/2009/03/rfc-5453-can-i-make-it-more-concise/#comments Wed, 11 Mar 2009 23:53:35 +0000 Colin http://www.itdojo.com/blog/?p=388 http://www.itdojo.com/blog/2009/03/rfc-5453-can-i-make-it-more-concise/feed/ http://www.itdojo.com/blog/2009/03/nobody-fills-my-spam-queue-like-cisco/ http://www.itdojo.com/blog/2009/03/nobody-fills-my-spam-queue-like-cisco/#comments Tue, 10 Mar 2009 04:18:40 +0000 Colin http://www.itdojo.com/blog/?p=337 http://www.itdojo.com/blog/2009/03/nobody-fills-my-spam-queue-like-cisco/feed/ http://www.itdojo.com/blog/2009/03/the-idiot-proofing-of-networking/ http://www.itdojo.com/blog/2009/03/the-idiot-proofing-of-networking/#comments Thu, 05 Mar 2009 21:43:27 +0000 Colin http://www.itdojo.com/blog/?p=229 http://www.itdojo.com/blog/2009/03/the-idiot-proofing-of-networking/feed/ http://www.itdojo.com/blog/2009/02/smell-of-popcorn-disrupts-80211-wlan-traffic/ http://www.itdojo.com/blog/2009/02/smell-of-popcorn-disrupts-80211-wlan-traffic/#comments Wed, 25 Feb 2009 21:57:01 +0000 Colin http://www.itdojo.com/blog/?p=272 There’s something about the smell of popcorn that disrupts the flow of data across 802.11 WLANs.  It’s an interesting phenomenon.  Workers in the office, particularly those who sit close to the break room are finding that there is a direct relationship between the smell of someone making an afternoon popcorn snack and poor/diminished performance of [...]]]> http://www.itdojo.com/blog/2009/02/smell-of-popcorn-disrupts-80211-wlan-traffic/feed/ http://www.itdojo.com/blog/2009/02/i-would-have-been-lost-without-the-diagram/ http://www.itdojo.com/blog/2009/02/i-would-have-been-lost-without-the-diagram/#comments Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:05:09 +0000 Colin http://www.itdojo.com/blog/?p=263 http://www.itdojo.com/blog/2009/02/i-would-have-been-lost-without-the-diagram/feed/ http://www.itdojo.com/blog/2009/02/tweet-me-spam-me-you-spitter/ http://www.itdojo.com/blog/2009/02/tweet-me-spam-me-you-spitter/#comments Wed, 18 Feb 2009 05:11:10 +0000 Colin http://www.itdojo.com/blog/?p=247 I love Twitter.  I’m addicted to it.  I tweet from my laptop all day at work.  I tweet from my desktop PC when I get home at night.  I tweet from my iPhone while I’m at traffic lights, standing in line in the grocery store and waiting in the doctor’s office.  I tweet when I’m [...]]]> http://www.itdojo.com/blog/2009/02/tweet-me-spam-me-you-spitter/feed/