Want to surf faster but you don’t want to pay for it ?
Well, here are a couple of things you can do :
Use OpenDNS as your DNS servers.
OpenDNS is a free DNS service that provides faster DNS resolving, all you have to do is use 208.67.222.222 as primairy dns server and 208.67.220.222 as secundary server and your set !
To check if everything is ok just surf to welcome.opendns.com and if you see the welcome page all settings are ok. You can also register at www.opendns.com and use shortcuts and many more… .
For more information checkout www.opendns.com .
Add url’s to Windows’ DNS.
Windows (XP) has a DNS server of is own, only, you have to add the url’s yourself.
Navigate to your Windows folder – System32 – drivers -etc . There you will find a couple of files, one of them being hosts (no extention). If you open this file in a text editor you can add urls and the IP adress. You just have to format them like this :
(IP) (URL)
0.0.0.0 domain.com
72.14.219.191 matthiasvanneste.blogspot.com
Just make sure that there is at least one space between IP and URL. And this way you can create your own DNS. You will also find other DNS alike files like networks. Here you can add (the same priciple) internal network hosts with their IP address.
Disable Caching of negative url’s.
Your browser also caches wrong url’s for an amount of time. This slows down surfing because he will try those first, but they result in a new DNS request so time wasted. To avoid your browser caching wrong (or negative) url’s go to your register editor (run->regedit) and navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE – SYSTEM – CurrentControlSet – Services – Dnscache – Parameters and create a new DWORD value. Give it the name “NegativeCacheTime” (without quotes) and give it the value 0. Now your browser wil hold wrong url in cache for 0 seconds, so not… This wil help speed up surfing.
Filed under: NegativeCacheTime, dns, faster, internet, opendns
Microsoft has released an interactive API of Office in WPF. It allowes developers to drill down into the API’s of the new Office programs, servers, services and tools. The fact that its made in WPF allowes you to visualize the new features and namespaces you need to extend MS Office and create OBA’s (Office Business Applications).
The Microsoft Office interactive developer map is made in WPF so it requires the .NET Frameworks 2.0 and 3.0 to be installed on your pc.
You can download and install the Microsoft Office interactive developer map (via Click-Once) at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/office/bb497969.aspx .
Happy exploring !
Greets !
Filed under: API, Developer, Mircosoft, Office, WPF
Joost is a new way of waching tv on the internet. You can wach a whole bunch of channels on demand. All for free ! All you need is a broadband connection and a Joost invite.
Find out more about Joost at http://www.joost.com .
And if you want an invite just comment your email to this topic or mail me your email address.
Greetings !
Filed under: internet, joost, on demand, tv
First of all, what is Mono ?
Well Mono is an open source x-platform version of .NET, runs on Mac,Linux,… and Windows of course.
Great not ? You can develop everything you want (well almost) in your favorite language!
It’s still a beta project, so not all .NET frameworks have yet been made for Mono but every most common framework is already available and new frameworks are being added constantly.
More info, an overview of the availeble framworks and contribution info you can find on http://www.mono-project.com/ .
Now, setting up Mono is not a very easy task (some may disagree). But I found a rather complete and clear tutorial to set it up on codeproject.com written by Will Senn.
You can find it on http://www.codeproject.com/cpnet/hellomono.asp .
Hopefully this topic helps you on the road with Mono, it’s an interesting alternative for Java, Cocoa,C++, …
If you wouldn’t get it running feel free to mail me for some support.
Greetings !
Filed under: .NET, cross platform, mono
Hi,
May I be the first (and only) to welcome you to my brand new blog.
I’ll try to share my experiences in IT, which will be mainly programming, because that is what I do. I’m mainly a Visual C# programmer but I’m also doing a shitload of other programming languages as well. I like SQL very much too,Windows servers in general,Sharepoint 2007 development and x-platform develoment like Java and Mono.
For the moment I’m working as a IT consultant / development consultant in Ireland.
Greetings !
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