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The Internet’s under the sea fiber optic cables

Here’s a diagram (on the Guardian website) showing the fiber optic cables under the sea that connects the world together.  Very interesting!

PsTools communication errors

My friend Anthony was getting “access denied” and “logon failure” errors when trying to to run psexec (from one of the PsTools suite) from an XP machine on a domain to an XP machine in a workgroup.  It was something similar to: PsInfo 1.34 – local and remote system information viewerCopyright (C) 2001-2002 Mark RussinovichSysinternals – www.sysinternals.com [...]

Vista error: "Trust relationship between this workstation & primary domain failed"

My Vista lab box presented this error when I tried to login into my company’s domain after several months of not doing so: Trust relationship between this workstation & primary domain failed I suspected my [Vista] installation was using cached domain information to login, which was the case and why it was being denied access.  [...]

ICANN tweaks root DNS server

I read about it via The Register…ICANN set up a new IP address for one of the “root name servers,” and is retiring the old address, i.e., from 198.32.64.12 to 199.7.83.42.  They’re apparently doing it for two reasons:  For one, the old IP address wasn’t officially under ICANN’s control.  But (two) more importantly, the organization wanted to [...]

A comprehensive router password database

If you like (or are required) to help/assist people with their wireless router needs, you’ve probably had the need to reset and reconfigure them many, many times.  The problem, however, is that most of time time you don’t have the admin username and password to do so; you ask them if they have their user manual [...]