Risharde's Blog

Thought the blog needed some music, after all, I am the future! :)
Hope yall enjoy! This was done with my crate guitar, the digitech gnx3 pedal and my fender 212 amp, alesis 6 channel usb mixer and a drum synth.

--Rish

I see that some users were asking What is TSTT's default gateway ? Well, I could be wrong, but depending on what ip range you are in, you get different gateway ip. So its impossible for me to answer this for you. Sorry!

--Rish

Well, if you're having this problem, unfortunately there's not much you can do about this. I've seen this happen a few times when TSTT claims they were doing upgrades and all I could do was call them and tell them about it. It got fixed after a week so I'd recommend you contacting your service provider and explain the situation to them.

--Rish

I see that some users have been trying to understand the TSTT's DSL username format. When you sign up for Blink Broadband (DSL), generally, your username is dsl followed by your phone line number. For example, if your number was 9998888, your dsl username would be dsl9998888. I hope this helps some of you out there.

--Rish

From my very little knowledge of GUIDs, from my interpretation/understand, its a Globally Unique Identifier which means that basically some genious coder developed an algorithm that generates a unique identifier such that the probability of the GUID being non-unique is so low, its pretty much unique - most likely you'll have to read this back a few times to understand what I am saying.

Okay so I came across this piece of basic code which I am certain you cannot copyright so I'm also going to show it here. I haven't tested it but its one line of code so it should do the trick

Function GUID() As String

GUID = System.GUID.NewGuid().ToString()

End Function

Basically. you'd need a GUID perhaps in developing a way to license your application I suppose? I'm not to sure, it must be handy for something.

Hi everyone, I've been surfing the internet a little more than usual this week and came across a few snazzy looking flash websites that companies have. I have to admit that they do indeed look fantastic and I'm sure companies want graphics and art to pull customers in.

There is however an issue which I don't believe a lot of web designers tell their clients about "full flash websites" so I'll attempt to do so. Flash is of course an embedded object and the flash file is not human readable itself which is why the flash player is used to view the data in the flash file. So consider if a search engine was crawling your website to index it - it would see a flash file but wouldn't understand what content was in the flash file. How is this bad? Well a typical site like this blog uses HTML which crawlers can understand thus when the crawler indexes the website, users can easily search for a particular topic and find a link to this blog. That won't happen for Flash websites unless there's meta data or html data that relates to your website for the engine to understand.

So while its all nice, fine and dandy to have terrific effects, you should also be considered about targetting a wider audience (which I suppose is every company's main goal). A balance between flash and html will do the trick.

For some reason, when I implemented mysql replication about 1 month ago, the databases went out of sync. Not certain as to what happened. Since then, I've added 3 servers to do replication excluding my master server.

I'll be check it this week but it seems everything today synchronized nearly instantaneously which is great. I can see the potential in doing this but applications will have to be modified to do updates to master only and possible reads from 1 out of the 3 servers (perhaps 4 if you include the master).

I suppose that one could round rubbing via DNS A records in which the hostname points to multiple ip addresses but different client applications deal with this in many different ways and some don't implement a choice function.

I suppose on a simplistic level, having a server as the frontend to forward to other servers could work as well.

After about 4-5 months offering this service for FREE to the internet community, it seems that many people lacked the vision or simply continued to use other systems that aren't efficient and will inevitably fail.

As I posted on my facebook, I am beginning to take back what I have freely given to the internet community. "As it is given, so shall it be taken away". I am no longer going to waste my money and my time (which is very limited) to build better systems only to realize that most of the internet community will not move up to these better systems.

A good example of the adoption of continuous retarded systems is email and spam lists. I have now come to the conclusion that a lot of people with good services have moved on from the kiddie wishing internet realm.

Good luck finding a safe, efficient free dns service for your domains.

This has been a hot topic lately to talk about. So what do you need to know about TSTT's Firewall. Well firstly, when you initially get your DSL modem set up, it seems that there is a firewall found on the DSL router. Secondly, it seems (because I am still unsure) that TSTT runs some sort of "transparent" firewall which is controlled by the ISP. So if you're trying to download torrents and you're having problems AND you recently got DSL and you've tried opening ports etc and it doesn't work, its best that you call TSTT and request that they remove the firewall. However, you shouldn't tell them its because you want to download torrents because I doubt they'll be happy with that - but of course, what information you give to your service provider is really your business.

NOTE CAREFULLY: Disabling a firewall can put your security at risk! If you know nothing about firewalls, then for our sake, you should leave it running.

UPDATE: PLEASE READ COMMENTS FOR SIMPLE 5 MINUTE SOLUTION

The DAT 5958 update that Mcafee issued to its corporate customers via its ePolicy Orchestrator and / or other updates has crippled many Windows XP SP3 systems throughout the world.

Not to be mistaken with a Windows Update or even a virus, it seems that the Mcafee Update causes Mcafee Enterprise Virus Scan 8.7i to detect svchost.exe as a virus. svchost.exe however is a critical component required by multiple services in order for Windows XP to function properly.

Symptoms of this update includes
An automatic shutdown popup displaying information such as DCOM service/server failure.
Unable to see the taskbar
Unable to see the list of services via the Administative Tools
Unable to use the Windows network connections to communicate
Among many other symptoms associated with the deletion of svchost.exe from the Windows\System32 folder.

The easiest solution for an affected system is to reboot the machine in safe mode