Offlate for last 2 weeks, i have been getting too many calls.. Ray, pls help us, net is not working etc etc. Sadly their ISPs are not helping them .. they just say, “everything is fine” maybe you have you a virus.
When i diagnoised this problem for many of them i noticed they are using the ISP’s DNS Servers. i would recommend you use these below mentioned DNS servers as PRIMARY and SECONDARY and then use the ISP’s DNS as alternates.
208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220
So i would prefer you contact your IT guy to make the change. Opendns is a community supported platform and with fast updates and Error checking. i would prefer you use it for all your networking DNS queries. Using the above , have solved most of my clients problems.
Today, when Computer education is popular in schools. The outgoing students think they know the science, they know the skills, the pros or cons. They think they are the doctors of IT. That they can do rocket programming the moment they passout from college.
Unfortunately(or fortunately), they do not pursue the IT career. but they think they can still comment, demand IT guys to bow down at their feet, coz they learnt their tools in school. They just wont understand, that if you do science in school , doesnt mean you have graduated into a Doctor and immediately treat patients.
They do not understand the fact, that IT is an Experience more than just knowledge or books. Its a skill and a trait. It needs patience and logical understanding of the situation. whats worse is parents sometimes misunderstand this.
I was once faced in doing Consultancy for a major company, which includes a complete Email setup, Firewalls, couple of oracle servers. In between of the meeting, the guy is like.. Ray!, i think i will involve my son in the decision making. He studied IT in school. Im like….. ‘ok’ …. how old is he ? he is 15……….. im like WTF!.
Like Engineers, Doctors and many other disciplines.. i wish IT is left alone.. !
I have been working on Google API’s for some of my personal projects and found it both really easy to use and quite straight forward. Specially when it comes to User Authentication and also with Geo Tools. Or if you plan to use it to embed social communities like orkut, into your own applications.
So far i used only 2 of them and it seems be great
Use Gmail Authentication for your user application
Im Back from Goa last night.. got a bit of Time Lagged. Waking up at 4.30 am today, which matches to 7.00 Am back in Kuwait, after a 14 long days. Goa is hot , but extremely humid. I have been drenched 90% of the time, when im out. Being extremely crowded these days. i chose to be on my bike, instead of the car.
Hmmmm,,, i dont think this is a fair deal. While the locals get a raise, we expats face the music from local traders and price increase.
Im a Trader too. Well PEOPLE & COMPANIES.. now pls dont cry, when i increase my prices for my IT services!. im facing inflation, i need to survive here!.
Spam has been my worst enemy, Not because i get them on my emails , But it makes my work as an IT Admin, real bad. Everyday i get complains from clients, friends & Family … they are like “RAY, do something !!!!”. Continue reading ‘War with Spam!!!’
For those people , whose websites, Emails dont work today, please note there seems to be some IP route congestion specially if you are going through xxxx.teleglobe.net to xxxx.Level3.net route. Im not sure if this is due to network congestion or some changes happening there.
So ISPs in Kuwait, have not reflected to these change of routes. as everything in Kuwait is Cached, which is very bad. So please run a ” tracert domain.com ” command. Somehow after running this , the routes get cleared and things start working.
