Like I said some time ago I had to move my websites from a shared host (bluehost) to a dedicated sollution. Well, the websites I host (for clients, friends and myself) don’t account for the need of a dedicated server so I searched for a virtual sollution. I finally came to the conclusion that...
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Is a site really down?
Sometimes I have to know if one of my websites or one of a client is down or not. More than once I’ve been tricked by the ISP’s troubles that a site is down. I use my smartphone to doublecheck but I’ve found an even better sollution: http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ You just enter your problem site...
List of ISP DNS servers
This is a growing list of DNS servers. I consul it from time to time maybe you’ll find it usefull too. I also maintain a growing list of free dns servers. RDS Sibiu, Romania: 213.154.124.1 and 193.231.252.1 Romtelecom – ClickNet, Romania: 193.231.100.130 and 193.231.100.134
List of open dns servers
This is a growing list of Open DNS servers available around the world. I also maintain a list of ip address of various isp providers. Google DNS: 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 OpenDNS: 208.67.220.220 and 208.67.222.222. Open DNS also makes available a third and fourth dns server with identical service to the first two 208.67.220.222 and...
VLC media player 1.0.0 – Goldeneye is out !
In the good tradition of Open Source projects VideoLAN has been at a version < 1.0 for ages. Traditionally 1.0 would be a complete, stable release. Well VideoLAN is there. Actually has been there for some time, I use it constantly and besides an uglier than usual interface has been stable and useful for...
Open office to the rescue
Last Thursday I was happily walking to the bus station to start a prolonged weekend when a friend and client ranged. Microsoft Excel was giving her trouble: she was working on some inventory files with lots of records and pretty complex. To add to the problem the data was copied and pasted from an...
Graph paper tools
Although I do most of my work on a computer, I need from time to time to draw schematics, plans and so on. And for that I like to use millimeter graph paper. And I also like to print my own. So I made for myself a couple of PDF files with a graph...
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