It seems everyone wants a piece of the tablet market! RIM (Research In Motion) has plans to reveal their competitor to the tablet arena by the end of the year.
Remote computing with Logmein
There are many ways to connect to your home computer and do some sort of remote control operation. I’ve discussed in the past RDP and Powershell options, but today I’m going to focus on another tool that I find myself using quite a bit. That tool / service is Logmein http://www.logmein.com . Continue reading
Dearest Halo, I don’t love you anymore.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. There’s a new Halo release today and I’m not sick with the Halo Flu. I’m not even buying it today. Does this mean I’ve fallen off the gamer wagon? Absolutely not. It’s just… Well it’s not you, Halo, it’s me. Just kidding, it’s you. ODST was bad. Don’t lie to yourself. The only thing ODST was good for was being traded in for credit on Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Yup. I said it.
Google’s Android is not quite ready for the tablet platform
Free cloning software that works well with windows 7 and server 2008
Cloning a hard drive can be done through a variety of methods, and for a variety of reasons. In this blog I’m going to make a couple assumptions. The first, is that you the reader, are looking to clone a drive on the basis that you would like to use this as part of a backup solution. The second, is that you are running windows 7, windows vista, or windows server 2008.
Remote computing and PowerShell 2.0 part 2 – Running a Scriptblock on a remote machine
Multiple parallel audio streams from multiple audio sources on one Wirecast license.
We were recently presented with an interesting problem by a long time local customer and friend to many of us here at High Speed Web. WRHI is a local media center running some 6 radio stations. They stream these stations over the internet with us currently via RTMP, Adobe’s proprietary streaming protocol. This works great when streaming to flash enabled browsers, but when their customer base increasingly demanded mobile device compatibility, WRHI had a problem. With Adobe and Apple, the maker of the famous iPhone, iTouch, and iPad, in a pissing match over the future of streaming mobile technology, WRHI needed to be compatible with both. After some research, Wirecast was chosen as the streaming encoder and Wowza as the streaming server. These were chosen based on their flexibility and inter-compatibility. The bigger issue was streaming 6 streams from the same box. Their original solution had them running 6 separate streaming servers.
But that didn’t sit well with my inner nerd.
Plus Wirecast is $500 per license, and 6 licenses versus 1 didn’t sit well with my inner banker.
So here’s what we did…
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Remote computing and PowerShell 2.0 part 1 – Getting started
It’s a pretty routine event for me to be remotely logged into more then one Windows server through Remote Desktop, or even occasionally sending a command from CMD to a remote server. PowerShell has not been left out of the game, when it comes to remote computing. If you have a Windows 7, and a Windows 2008 machine, then everything you need has likely already been installed. In this blog I will discuss the steps needed to make and accept connections from PowerShell, and discuss running a single command on a remote computer. If not then you will need to download and install the Windows Management Framework Core package. You can find it here: support.microsoft.com/kb/968930
Monitor your IPs with SenderScore automatically.
In a world of increasing SPAM, IP reputation has become a must-know statistic if you want to be able to send an email to a customer, prospect or even grandma. So if you are running an ISP, as we are, maintaining a good IP reputation isn’t some nice frill that makes you feel good, it’s a necessity. The problem is, no one wants to tell you what the reputation is. Sure, you can monitor the hundreds of various block lists out there, and probably should, but that only tells you when the IP’s reputation has reached a critical low. Luckily, most big email providers are turning to ReturnPath their spam complaints, feedback loops, and all those other tedious tasks that need handling when dealing with customer level email delivery. This places ReturnPath in a unique position where they can monitor, generate, and, more importantly, display the IP reputations of our IPs.
And so they do. Enter SenderScore.
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