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[Keith] Welcome to the Mind Of Root. I'm Keith Albright

[Rich] and I'm Rich Niemeier.

[Steve] and I'm Steve Murawski.

[Keith] This is Episode 44 recorded on March 25th, 2008.

Chit-Chat - What's going on with you?

[Keith]

  • How was everyones holiday? Did anyone take any time off?

[Steve]

  • I had off on Friday, but somehow the weekend still seemed to go really quickly. How about you Rich/Keith?

[Rich]

Housekeeping Items

[Rich]

[Steve]

  • I've mentioned on the show a bit about a vendor our company works with, especially in reference to the project that had me missing a couple of shows in the past few months and the Crystal Reports training I was involved in recently. Well, the owner of the company called me recently and said,"So Steve, does this sound familiar, "So Steve, what's going on with you? Well, I'm getting ready to..." I had mentioned the podcast when we had stopped for dinner a few weeks ago and he went and found our podcast online.

[Keith]

  • Apologies if I confused anyone on the last show when I announced the wrong episode number. It was on the wiki that way, so I read it.
  • 250 Blog SPAMs? over the holiday weekend. It was slow on Friday, so I thought the weekend would be quiet....NOT!

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  • Young People Spark a Tech Culture Clash [STEVE]
-75% use Web-based email accounts/54% of older workers
-66% are regulars on Facebook or MySpace?/13% of older workers
-46% use instant messaging/22% of older workers
-"Here’s the scary part for IT departments: Young people are going to use these technologies whether IT departments want them to or not. Sixty-nine percent of young workers say they feel entitled to use whatever technology they want regardless of IT policy."
-Link: http://blogs.wsj.com/biztech/2008/03/24/young-people-spark-a-tech-culture-clash/?mod=WSJBlog
-Link: http://shrinkster.com/wab
  • ISP Change [KEITH]
-Done. Biggest battle was DNS. I wound up bagging running my own for right now and went with the registrar's DNS. Long term I will switch to my own since I have the server ready, but it was not coming up quick enough and I switched one of our domains to the registrar DNS and it propagated much more quickly.
-Website email problem. Since they had it hard-coded through proxy and I am using direct routes for the servers, I ran into a problem. I had to manually change the ASP and coldfusion code to the new IP. I used a tool I'll talk about later.
-Because of the DNS, I had to setup the BabyWeb? server on the old website IP and a laptop w/SMTP on the old mail server IP. I dual homed the NIC so it could "route" to the Symantec SMTP gateway for mail. Once the DNS converged, I removed both.
-Link: http://
  • SPF Records [STEVE]
-The Sender Policy Framework (SPF) is an open standard specifying a technical method to prevent sender address forgery.
-I've been trying to wrap up some openings in my network design and I started looking at this as an additional layer.
-Have either of you had any experience with SPF records?
-Link: http://www.openspf.org/Project_Overview
-Link: http://shrinkster.com/waj
-Link: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa995992.aspx
-Link: http://shrinkster.com/wam
  • More DNS [KEITH]
-So, I have an internal DNS server and external DNS entries (Hosted at this point by registrar). I ping my DC and I get the external IP address. Here's the problem. I have a server at intra.company.com and my internal domain is intra.company.com. So, the host name is the same as the domain name.
-I have to go to scratch on this one, but can you recommend any good resources for DNS design. I obviously want to keep the internal entries internal only, etc.
-Link: http://
-Select-String is PowerShell's version of grep.
-You can pipe a string or a file into Select-String, or supply a file name or wildcarded string of types of files (select-string "find me" *)
-There are options for case sensitive matching (default is case insensitive), simple matches or pattern matching
-Select-String returns MatchInfo? objects, which have the match, the search criteria, the file it came from, and the line it came from.
  • Replacem 2.0 [KEITH]
-So, I have a ton of ASP and CFM files that have the SMTP server email address hard coded in them. Replacing them all would take forever....Not with Replacem. You can tell it the text to replace, file inclusion and exclusion strings, recursiveness of subdirectories, etc. and it makes the change. Worked great for me.
-I even used it on the .CFMAIL files that went undeliverable until I found the problem. I then dragged them to the spool directory and they were processed fine.
-Best of all, it's free.
-Link: http://www.orbit.org/replace/
-Link: http://shrinkster.com/wae
  • Social Networking - Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter [STEVE]
-I've recently noticed a surge in people in my circle becoming more active on LinkedIn, so I was wondering how people integrate their online activities.
-I've also recently started using Twitter, and in my effort to tie my online presence together, I've been using Facebook applications to connect to Twitter and LinkedIn. I've also added a Twitter widget to the blog at PowerShell Basics.
-How much is too much when it comes to an online presence? I've gotten some good links and information watching Twitter and it also acts as a lightweight chat client for people who may not be on GoogleTalk? or IRC or are disconnected (Twitter can also run over SMS), but I can easily see how this can get out of control, where you are spending more time updating sites and scrolling through other's updates for the nuggets of useful information.

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Listener Feedback

From listener....Matt Browne who sent us an email....

I'm trying to build a Wiki for information about Event ID's. The idea is to list out event ID's and possible fixes/solutions to them. ie Things people have tried and worked, or links to KB articles on the events. I've only just set it up and have only have a couple of pages on it at the moment. I will put more on it over time but it could do with more than just me adding pages (that's the idea of a wiki I suppose).

So, what I am really trying to do is get the site noticed by people that can put useful info up there. So I was wondering if you had anything to put up there or if you could mention it on the show. Oh, and if you have any ideas or criticisms etc, please feel free to email me.

Link: http://www.eventidwiki.com Link: http://shrinkster.com/waf

[KEITH] Great idea Matt and I encourage everyone to participate. I like these types of community sharing sites vs. the ones with the profit-motive. (Yes, Experts-Exchange, I'm looking at you.)

[STEVE] I like the idea also Matt. I'll definitely contribute what I learn and come across. These type of sites are a great reference, having one place to go look for information rather than 15 different sites, which may or may not be relevant to the issue you are trying to resolve.

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Website Picks

Rich - http://

Steve - http://www.kitterman.com/spf/validate.html http://shrinkster.com/wai

Keith - http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers http://shrinkster.com/wak IANA is the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority; the regulatory body to register your use of a TCP/UDP port.

Last Call

Anyone....Anyone....Buehler.....Buehler....

Closing

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