Working at a software company gives me the opportunity to stay on the cutting edge of technology. Infragistics held a round of interviews with developers on why they enjoyed what they do from day to day. This was put on video and shard to the world. I rather enjoyed the video and after seeing it […]
One of my new kids on the block asked me a question tonight; “Jermal, how do I get the mx record of a domain?” To retrieve mx record information we need to use a tool called nslookup which is available in Windows and Linux The quick syntax use is nslookup [-option] [hostname] [server] Example of […]
I know I have had times where I wanted, possibly needed to send a message and didn’t because I needed to make sure that it never was seen by another person. I no longer need to wish for this because Privnote is a free web based service that allows you to send top secret notes […]
After a quick LAMP install, I decided to install PhpMyAdmin. Logging into I noticed a warring message that read: The mcrypt extension is missing. Please check your PHP configuration To resolve this I attempted the following: Elevated my console to root (sudo -i) apt-get install mcrypt apt-get install php5-mcrypt (no need because the previous command […]
Microsoft has released their Advance Notification for the December 2014 security bulletins. There will be a total of seven bulletins, three of which will update critical vulnerabilities. Critical update affects Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008 The critical update also affect Exchange Email Product Line as well as Office 2010. Office […]
So there is a article written by Microsoft stating for the most part that you should not use Windows as a reliable NTP server. The introduction: the support boundary to configure the Windows Time (W32Time) service for high-accuracy environments. High-accuracy environments include exchange trading houses and high-precision manufacturing companies for whose success critically accurate time measurement […]