Author: Joker

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OpenDNS Updater 2.0 for Windows

Well it looks like OpenDNS released OpenDNS Updater 2.0 for Windows according to an e-mail I got today. At the time I wrote this the article on their site to download the OpenDNS Updater was pointing to the 1.3.0.187 version.

Here is what they said in the e-mail about it.

If you’re using OpenDNS at home, we recommend you download the new OpenDNS Updater 2.0 for Windows, a major step forward in stability, features and performance. This little piece of software does many great things, including:

  • It will update your dynamic IP quietly in the background. This makes sure your OpenDNS settings follow you if your IP changes and ensures your filtering, shortcuts and customization stay functional.
  • It will automatically detect NetBios devices such as file servers, network printers and media servers on your network and create VPN typo exceptions for them so they continue to work without issue.
  • It lives in your system tray (or you can choose to make it completely invisible) and alerts you by changing color from orange to red if, for some reason, OpenDNS stops working properly.

It’s also extremely stable and lightweight. Download it now. Note: clicking the link will start the download.

The previous version did update the IP & run in the tray but it didn’t have a way to not get bubbles. Sorry but that isn’t what is the most exciting features to me.

The one that I’m really happy for is that “It will automatically detect NetBios devices”, yes that’s right I will no longer have to manually add every single computer on my network to the “hosts” file or to my OpenDNS dashboard. Both of which would require me to update it if the IP addresses ever changed for any reason whatsoever. So this will make file & printer sharing with OpenDNS running on my network even easier for me to configure & maintain. I just have to have my computer set to a network on my account with them which I already had done since my IP address changes every time I reboot my router.

I hope this is enough to convince my family & anyone else that reads my blog to upgrade their DNS to OpenDNS. Remember with OpenDNS being used on your network your Internet should be faster & safer because you can block stuff like porn sites & phishing sites or other sites you just don’t want to be able to go to.

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Microsoft encouraging people to install IE8

I find this really funny last night Major Nelson tweeted about a site encouraging people to “upgrade” to Internet Explorer 8, but they still have <meta http-equiv=”X-UA-Compatible” content=”IE=EmulateIE7″ /> in the source code of their site, that is over here. Yes you read that right Microsoft still have people using Internet Explorer 8 using the Internet Explorer 7 rendering engine on their homepage. The only explanation I can think of is even they can’t figure out how to make a site work with Internet Explorer 8 as well as Internet Explorer 6 & Internet Explorer 7, but that is only a guess.

I find it somewhat ironic that they released Internet Explorer 8 back on March 19, 2009 according to wikipedia which sounds right as that sounds about the time that I told Windows update the first time to hide that “High Priority Update”. I’m sorry but they still have not fixed it & the Internet was not ready for all the changes that they made to the rendering engine.

About the only good thing I can say about Internet Explorer is that does not support the <blink> tag. I really with the Firefox developers would realize that is a bad tag & isn’t even a part of the standard HTML tags.

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Recipe script

Well I guess I ought to post about the most recent script I installed. I installed it here. As you can tell from the subject of this post it is a script for sharing recipes. At the time I wrote this it has a total of 37 recipes so far.

I didn’t post about it until after I got the ads installed & some stuff for Google Analytics installed successfully as well. Since they are now working & I have at least some recipes listed I’m willing to blog about it. Also now I’m going through a list of recipes with Zucchini in them. After I finish with that list I’ll start adding others as well.

If you want to post a recipe I’m more than happy to allow you to post it.

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Time for another post

Well it has been a long time since my last post so I guess I should write something.

Well I just recently listened to Major Nelson & I believe many of the things mentioned at the Xbox Account Security page are useful for everyone even if you are not on Xbox or Xbox live. I say this because many of the schemes that people use on Xbox live members are some of the same tactics used elsewhere. I know it doesn’t cover everything about web security but it does help with some of the possible issues.

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Bash commands

I’m working on a script to list several bash commands that I use at work all the time. Yes I’m making a script instead of a static HTML page. This is because I can change the sorting on it among other things easier than when just typing up a plain old HTML file.

It is going to be here. As I said I’m still working on it. That is to say it isn’t even working yet. I made a static page to hold some commands temporally before I actually get it working.