- Interesting looking tool alert. If you’ve ever made a change to your public DNS records it can seem like an eternity for the changes to populate. DNSYO is a nifty little tool that will poll 500 DNS servers showing you the propagation of your records. Check it out!
- Over at Packet Pushers, Eric Flores has a good blog post on F5 deployment types. The post is designed for in-line mode but talks about the “load-balancer-on-a-stick” (as in router-on-a-stick) method and the advantages and disadvantages of that design choice. My preference would be in-line mode as make troubleshooting issues nicer, something which should be taken into account in all designs.
- Another awesome looking tool for those of you who use System Center Orchestrator, the “Orchestrator Visio and Word Generator” tool. Pretty cool and much better than static documentation. I’m sure I’ll get around at some point to writing a rant on how documentation is done all wrong but for now I believe tools like these should exist for all systems.
- This is less hard tech but something I found interesting. Jeff Atwood of Coding Horror (also StackExchange, and many others, fame) asks a very good question, why does battery life on Windows devices suck? Honestly I moved to Mac (and OSX) in 2011 and haven’t looked back. I really find I’m not missing anything from Windows though I do miss PowerShell and the VIClient (going anyway so it doesn’t matter). PowerShell I can live without day to day and it helps to keep me sharp in more than one language, but some things are much nicer in OSX than in Windows. Just my experience.
