Helpful Tips

When creating an open or wildcard subdomains in Windows 2003/2000 DNS service, simply use and A record with an asterix.

For Example
*.gottabrag.com 209.91.124.215
Just enter in a * into the A record with the IP address pointing to 209.91.124.215.

It works great.

Also, on the Linksys BEFVP41 Routers, make sure, whatever you do when setting up a VPN that the second number on the local or remote secure addresses is not 0. Because if you don't, any IP address higher then 192.168.1.1 will automatically try and go through the secure tunnel. Which means strange things like Google works, but Yahoo and MSN doesn't.

On a very positive note, our friend Grant is back from Hong Kong! He mentioned on the phone that he's going to have lots of cool pictures to post on GottaBRAG, which will be exciting to see! You can check out his site (which he's been too busy to update a lot) on http://grant.solarbotics.net.

Cheers,
Eric

Wow I suck at blogging!

I suck at blogging, why? Because I don't stick to it. The last two weeks have been crazy, I feel like I haven't hardly slept at all. Christmas shopping is coming and I don't like crowds. Winter is here, and I don't like cold! Why do we live in Calgary, Alberta, Canada? What part of us is sadistic that wants to put up with this harsh climate? Why can't we live in nice warm sunny California! Why, Why, Why???? (Stanford is nice warm sunny California, I hear they have a good Comp Sci program :-))

Ok, so maybe I am good at blogging, complaining about things that I can't change to people (all 3 people) who don't really care that I don't like winter :-)

One cool thing about winter though, people get to do stuff like this: http://www.ebaumsworld.com/videos/xmaslights.html

Cheers,
Eric