Monitoring Room Temperature with Cisco routers

I wanted to share this with you. Our server room is typically unmanned. And while we have airconditioning, from time to time, something will happen that will cause it NOT to work. There will be a critical rise in room temperature that could pose danger to our network equipment and servers. So I wanted to […]

Messenger Federation DNS SRV record

I was a bit stumped when I wanted to ‘Federate’ one of my domains to the Windows Live Messenger service. One of the things I needed to do to make this possible was to create an SRV record in our domain DNS. Why ‘Federate’ in the first place? Well, users who use an instant messaging […]

Widows Live Training in Thailand

Again my thanks to Jay J of Microsoft for including me in the fantastic training on Windows Live offerings. Here is a summary of the things that were new to me and I learned only from the training, and from the members of the class: Windows Virtual Earth and Map Crunch (from Hugh S. of […]

Google Email leads to discovery of hack

One of our site received an email from google that it was not being included in the index for about 30 days. The site apparently had some spammy links that were hidden in it. We didnt put it there so we were alarmed at how it was included. It seems that the header.php was not […]

Thank You Microsoft for hosting MVP 2008

Techie is proud to have been invited to this year’s Microsoft MVP Global Summit 2008 at at the Washington State Trade and Convention Center in Seattle and at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Washington. What is the MVP Global Summit? The MVP Global Summit is a four-day invitation-only event hosted at the Washington State Trade and […]