Monthly Archives: May 2011

What’s in a CNAME?

Posted on May 30, 2011 by ditesh

In a bid to make payment for Unifi, I tried accessing the site at unifi.my. Chrome informed me that DNS resolution for unifi.my had failed. I ran a quick test: [ditesh@rhea] dig A unifi.my   ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;unifi.my. IN … Continue reading →

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A Noob’s Guide to Network Problems

Posted on May 19, 2011 by ditesh

Network problems present themselves in many ways, and it is often difficult to identify the cause of the problems. For home/small-office networking, there are effectively four big classes of problems. Latency Don’t bother going to those sites that show you … Continue reading →

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It is not the critic who counts

Posted on May 19, 2011 by ditesh

“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, … Continue reading →

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The PTPTN Ujrah loan novation thingamagic

Posted on May 4, 2011 by ditesh

I received a postcard from PTPTN advising me of their final offer to me in reducing the education loan interest rates from 5% and 3% respectively to 1%. They put a clear deadline of end of May 2011, upon which … Continue reading →

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