I am a big believer in learning about life from other people.  Thankfully I have found some important people to follow and have applied some of their principals.  The ones I have been able to get myself to adopt have been life changing.  Bob Parsons has a list on his website that states his sixteen rules for success.  There are several of them that apply to the technology field.  My favorite one on the list is get and stay out of your comfort zone.  I completely agree with this rule one hundred percent.  I have made the most progress in life when I tried new things.  Almost all of the time I look back and wonder what I was so worried about.  So the second favorite one on his list is always be moving forward.  I also agree with this point one hundred percent.  You should also be trying to make yourself better.  If you stop doing this not only will you not grow but you will start to move backwards over time.  If you get a chance stop over and read all sixteen.  I think you will probably agree with all sixteen points as something you could and should live by.

Bob Parsons Sixteen Rules Of Life And Business
http://www.bobparsons.me/bp_16_rules.php

 

Google just released their newest service which is public DNS.  DNS is one of the most important services when it come to using the internet.  Most of the times your local ISP does not have the resources to set up a good reliable DNS infrastructure.   Most end users don’t realize that the average user performs hundreds of DNS requests each day.  Going to some web pages only require one look up, but advanced pages make several DNS look ups.

The main reason to use the service is reliability, speed and increased security.  For advanced users one thing to note is that the service does not support DNSSEC.  Google has put in other measures to help with overall security.  I have been using the service for the past couple of days and have not had any issues.  Google’s DNS service is a great upgrade from my ISP service.  So would encourage to try out the new service.  I doubt you will go back.

Google Public DNS Service
http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/

 

When you collect performance data from perfmon you have a choice to save the file as a certain format.  The most common format I run across  is .blg.  This format works great when you looking at the performance data through perfmon.  Sometimes though it would be nice to pull this data into excel or another program in order to manipulate the data.  This is were the program from Microsoft called Relog can be used.  It has to be run from the command prompt.  Below is the command that would need to be run in order to convert a .blg file to a .csv file.  The process is quick and easy.

relog filname.blg -f CSV -o newfile.csv


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