OOOOH OOOOOH you have to watch this video
OOOPS. I meant this one-
How did I miss that there was that new charlie the unicorn video AND one they got paid to do for Hot Topic?
Category: Mindless Blather
OpenVPN name resolution to windows Active Directory
I got my openvpn clients to map to machine names. I was running into a problem with dfs roots. Had to be able to map to \\domain\root instead of \\serverip\share through my untangle firewall and nat using openvpn.
Open your network connections and look for the TAP adapter. Mine is v9 from the upgrade a few days [...]
Linux goodness and problems continued
My main laptop is an M6300 running Vista Ultimate dual booting to Fedora. It currently has a fried power supply that crackles and a dead battery. Until it gets fixed I’m running on the Ubuntu laptop. Problems keep on keeping on but a few things have worked well:
Keepassx – I was able to download my [...]
Gmail reports still flooding in
chat is broken for my users in multiple states. It has been down since we started work around 8am MST
Gmail problems today
On multiple networks we have confirmed issues with Gmail corporate contacts and chat. Mail is also loading very slowly. Maybe it is time to start paying instead of complaining when the free corporate version has problems.
PIngdom is down
Funny when your monitoring service goes down. I wonder how bad it is going to be when it comes back up. Get ready pingdom users
Entertaining CNN tech story… weird
Top ten stars that will get you a virus. And not by being a fan at their hotel. http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/08/24/celebrity.computer.virus.biel/index.html
Terminal services console mode
To connect to the console of a windows box:
start> run> mstsc.exe /console /V servername
DD-WRT Anchorfree hotspot does not work and should be removed
There is only so much space in your firmware for crap. Anchorfree’s hotspot software seems like a good idea. but it isn’t. It didnt work in v24, v24sp1 and it sure doesn’t work in v24sp2, it reboots my 2 test aps. I have 4 different models of wireless ap I use with DD-WRT. I love [...]
Mac vs win-PC article on PCworld nails some good points
Priceless-
http://www.pcworld.com/article/163836/eight_reasons_your_next_computer_should_be_a_pc.html
There are many many other reasons the cycle won’t be broken. Macs are cool, just not going to dominate.
Home users tend to buy what they have at work. Mac refuses to support old OS and software choices. Too many businesses get stuck in a rut where they run an old Windows OS because of an [...]