Jun 9, 2010

Many developers have access to the Verisign TLD Zone files. A common question is what is the easiest way to extract the domain names for processing by another program.  Sometimes you simply need to extract the domain names for insert into a database such as MSSQL or MySQL. The good news is that it’s not that hard at all. All you need to do is grep the...

Dec 10, 2009

I’m the Director of Infrastructure for a Fortune 500 retail company.  As with many companies, the recent economy has been a tough one to survive – putting extra pressure on us (and other companies) to cut costs, while providing the same or very similar levels of service and up-time. One area of interest has recently been peaked for me as...

Aug 5, 2007

Most everybody who uses a computer these days plays their videos in Windows Media Player if they use a PC and QuickTime if they use a Mac. That is just the way it has been for as long as anyone can remember. We’ve all heard of alternate web-browsers, but nobody talks about alternate media players. Unless you live in Korea, where the most popular player is...