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The Council of European National Top Level Domain Registries, has produced the following video to help explain the functioning of the Domain Name System (DNS). (via.)

It is nicely done and very colourful. I particularly liked how they producers show how fast DNS resolution is with the lump of sugar falling into the cup of coffee.
Several [...]

Saturday, January 23rd, 2010 at 01:31 | 0 comments
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From Jonathan Oxer, author of Practical Arduino:

They forced us to use Word templates (I don't even have Windows!)

if you want to write a book chose a publisher who doesn't force you to use a product and take a deep look at a formatter such as LaTeX.

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009 at 11:24 | 0 comments
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Take some consolation from the fact that she is now unemployed.

Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 09:39 | 0 comments
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The other day, a friend and I where making fun of somebody who is known to say that the DNS is always at fault. Since no normal human being knows what dig is, let alone how to use it, we thought of building a mail to DNS gateway as a joke. Anyhow, the whole thing [...]

Saturday, November 28th, 2009 at 17:51 | 0 comments
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I was chatting to Stefan a bit yesterday, and he mentioned being on the lookout for a small DNS server that can also do DHCP, so I recommended an excellent tool called dnsmasq, which is
a lightweight, easy to configure DNS forwarder and DHCP server. It is designed to provide DNS and, optionally, DHCP, to a [...]

Friday, November 6th, 2009 at 09:45 | 1 comment
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I was curious whether it is possible (of course it is!) to get a PDF converted to an eBook format for the iPhone, and I found these instructions on using the Stanza desktop converter and iPhone app, both of which are free of charge.
A few minutes later, I was browsing through my own book Alternative [...]

Saturday, October 31st, 2009 at 14:16 | 0 comments
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libconfig may be yet another configuration library, but I gave it a once-over anyway, and it is good. libconfig calls itself "a simple library for processing structured configuration files", with a "file format which is much more readable than XML". The file format really is readable, as the following short example shows:

# authenticator

name = "JP";
enabled [...]

Thursday, September 17th, 2009 at 21:58 | 3 comments
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Martin sends me a picture of his bookshelf:

You'll have noticed, that my book Alternative DNS Servers is there. Looks good, next to the other definitive works.

Thursday, August 27th, 2009 at 07:34 | 4 comments
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