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Next time you're setting up a network and you want to use a DNS server; consider that Google now offer a public DNS service very similar to the OpenDNS offering.

For those already in the know of these things, the Google IP addresses are *very* simple to remember;
Primary: 8.8.8.8
Secondary: 8.8.4.4

The OpenDNS IPs are almost as simple;
Primary: 208.67.222.222
Secondary: 208.67.220.220

Original source: http://drupal.org/best-open-source-PHP-CMS-award-2009

In a recent radio escapade designed to listen to the Cherry Ripe British Secret Intelligence Service spy station, my phone copped a few millilitres of high caffeine energy (and high sugar) energy drink across the front. Now, I'm all for mixing food and technology, but not like this.

Senator Hon Nick Minchin, Shadow Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy raises the issue about the Rudd government's plan on structural separation of Telstra, and despite being a card carrying Liberal member, I have to agree with the Labor party on the plan to split Telstra into a retail and wholesale company.

User education is better than implementing a potentially anti-competitive system within software.

This came to me by way of Eddie from VK2BV - Waverley Amateur Radio Society. I'm waiting to get Eddie's permission to quote his original email.

He mentioned SC Magazine's recent article on Microsoft whitelisting applications. I have to disagree with Munir Kotadia, the author that a whitelist of applications should be used.

So... for a long time I was worried about potentially turning my G1 into a brick by stuffing up the installation at some point. I was also worried about localisation of firmware to be an issue - and that maybe I somehow wouldn't be able to revert.

So I've been looking into unofficial builds of Android to put on my HTC Dream, and I've come across something that could make the idea unattractive.

I really should have mentioned this a while ago.

I love Android Cupcake (Android 1.5). It took quite a while for Optus to roll the OTA update out. I had considered installing one of the JesusFreke or Cyanogen mods, but I didn't want to brick my handset so I just waited it out.

Donut (Android 1.6) was released a few weeks ago and I'm reading that T-mobile is rolling it out in the USA. Will it take another 4 months before handsets in Australia will be updated?

This has to be the coolest house in the galaxy here.

My first experience with SSL certificates turned out to be not so great. I screwed up so many Apache 1.3 configs and caused more downtime on (thankfully) non-critical systems than I care to think about, but atleast it armed me for today.

I looked around and decided on GoDaddy's UCC (Multiple Domain) offering as I felt it was the most appropriate option if I were to apply an SSL cert to example.com, secure.example.com, imap.example.com and smtp.example.com.