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Archive for November 13th, 2007

The great iPhone insurance swindle

A few days ago, I wrote about my purchase of the latest consumer gadget – the Apple iPhone.
Unlike many others, I didn’t queue and the transaction was smooth but I was concerned that I was mis-sold insurance for the device. The conversation went something like this (I didn’t record the exact words at the [...]

Managing simultaneous access to resources from both internal and external DNS namespaces

When I originally set up my Active Directory, I used an internal DNS namespace, with a .local TLD (as was the advice at the time – no longer recommended). Essentially, my external domains are managed by my hosting providers and I manage the internal namespace. Simple.
Then I set up a few Internet-facing resources [...]