Dave McComb's Blog

Today, one of our client’s servers would no longer accept PPTP connections. We were getting a ton of 3015 and 3024 errors in the event viewer. It turns out that this is related to the recent DNS patches from Microsoft and certain TCP ports need to be excluded from the random ports that DNS can now use. This article has full details.

Since many of us still cannot stand Windows Vista, InfoWorld hss a great new article with tips and suggestions for putting new life into Windows XP.  Check it out here.

This site has long been forgotten about. Yet another good idea that never quite materialized. I have just discovered that I do enjoy blogging though. Please be sure and check out my new site. Hopefully it will not go the way that this one did. But, who knows, maybe this one will be resurrected too… Time will tell.

Xenu is a great “free” program to check your web site for broken links. Check it out at http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html

Ok, so I just found out that the latest version of Adobe Reader has a PDF previewer for Outlook 2007 built in. The Foxit solution I mentioned below loads much faster, but only works on Vista.

So, I’ve now discovered that blogs quickly get out of date. I’ve posted some tech articles, but I just realized I haven’t updated my main page in over a year! Maybe I just don’t have anything that interesting to say… nah, that can’t be it.

Well, one site that I did discover recently is Finetune. It’s a great site that allows you to build custom playlists, stream music, listen to other’s playlists, etc. Take a listen to the playlist I put together of some of my favorite artists and tracks:

Ok, so that’s all I’ve really got for now. Check back later (hopefully, not a year later).