• sites

    3 Years

    January 3, 2008

    So 3 years now.  Seems like a long, long time.  But posting more now than ever before, and getting a lot of visitors at this point, so thanks for coming!!!

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  • Network Infrastructure

    OpenDNS

    January 2, 2008

    Many people still use 4.2.2.2, 4.2.2.1, 206.13.28.12, 206.13.30.12, or some other arbitrary set of DNS servers.  But, these are ISP DNS servers and so subject not only to filtration of source IP addresses at the will of the ISP (which happened back in the old Mindspring days) but also subject to spikes in traffic making someone’s Internet connection appear dog slow.  So I’ve been putting people on internal DNS servers for a long time.  But even they need to point somewhere for their DNS… Enter OpenDNS.  These guys use 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220.  They’re free for just doing Internet lookups and if you find you want them to do more for you, they…

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  • Mac OS X

    Solid State Storage for the Masses

    January 1, 2008

    I originally posted this at http://www.318.com/TechJournal The new MacBook Air was introduced at MacWorld with the option for a 64GB Solid-State hard drive. Toshiba is also now offering Solid-State drives in sizes that are 32GB, 64GB and 128GB. The drives still seem to be lagging in adoption due to high costs, but they offer more durability, faster boot times and lower power requirements which should all lead to higher adoption over the next two years. Toshiba will also begin making Solid-state SATA drives in May that can be used in desktop systems.

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