C# 411If you change the nameservers of an Internet domain, it may take a few minutes or even hours before the changes appear in your web browser.
A brief delay occurs while the new nameserver values propagate over the global DNS. But typically that happens within minutes.
The greater delay is usually from the DNS cache on your PC and in your browser. DNS values are stored locally to speed website lookup, and they’re updated infrequently such as once per hour.
Facebook status updates must be 420 characters or less. If you try to post a longer update, you will receive the “Status Too Long” error message:
Owning an Internet domain is like owning a virtual property lot. You can build a website on a domain, place ads on it, or resell it for a profit. In addition to the initial purchase price, each domain requires an annual renewal fee. If you fail to pay the fee, the domain returns to the market, and someone else can buy it.
Fortunately domains are not very expensive. There are many low-cost domain sellers like GoDaddy. Domain prices vary by top-level domain (TLD, i.e. the suffix after the final dot, such as .com and .org). GoDaddy prices range from $11.99 for general domains (gTLD) such as .com, to $29.99+ for country-code domains (ccTLD) such as .co for Colombia.
The good news is that many domain sellers offer deep discounts on domains for the first year. But the important thing to remember is:
The annual domain renewal price is often much higher than the initial purchase price.
I like TechCrunch and read it daily. TechCrunch, ars technica, and CNET are arguably the best general technology news sites. But like millions of people, I visit these websites in my spare time on my mobile phone. Specifically, I use the Twitter app on the iPhone to consume my daily news.
So imagine my surprise when I visited TechCrunch and found this eye-squinter of a page:
Imagine you are driving down the highway and run out of gas. Surely that’s bad enough, but then you discover that you cannot refill your gas tank and are stranded for 24 hours or more. Welcome to the world of high-speed satellite internet.
To deal with this problem, we built HNFAP, FREE Windows software that acts like a smart gas gauge for your HughesNet high-speed Satellite internet. HNFAP™ (pronounced "HEN-fap") enables you to download as much as possible without running out of gas.
There are three major satellite internet providers in the United States: HughesNet, Starband and WildBlue. With satellite internet, you download and upload data via a satellite dish mounted in your yard or on your roof, similar to how DirecTV and Dish networks provide TV channels via satellite.
When compared to other means of internet access (cable, DSL, T1, dialup, etc.), satellite internet is generally more expensive, slower (except for dialup), falters during rain and snow, has a noticeable lag, doesn’t support online gaming or virtual private networks, and has strict limits on how much data you can download each day.
But on the other hand, if you live out in the country, satellite is currently the best affordable option for high-speed internet (though perhaps that will change someday with the US Rural Broadband Initiative).
The Internet is a fickle beast. Websites come and go. Connections break and are restored. With so many working parts and points of failure, it’s amazing the Internet is as reliable as it usually is.
But when things go wrong — as they inevitably do — and you cannot access a website, it can be challenging to determine where the problem occurred: your PC, Internet modem, cable connection, Internet service provider, the website itself, or any of the thousands of lines in between.
Fortunately there are free online services that independently check if a website is down:
Most services allow you to enter a domain name to determine if it’s accessible. However, CheckSite.us also allows you to enter a full URL path, domain with a specific port (e.g., checksite.us:2082), or an IP address (e.g., 209.41.89.150:2082). For websites it cannot access, CheckSite.us will continue trying the website every 15 minutes for up to 3 days. If it can access the website, it will send you an email or SMS text message.
The one thing we can all count on with Facebook is change. Facebook performs major updates to its user interface about twice a year. Some changes are welcome, but sometimes the Facebook UI designers make things harder than they should be.
Today the world’s most popular social network Facebook introduced its biggest interface change since the complete revamp in March.
BugSpy crawls the web in search of the latest bug reports in open source software. It tries to display only open bugs. You can search by tag or product name.
The NFL has punted the popular social network Twitter.
On Monday, the National Football League announced that players, coaches, and other team personnel can use social networks such as Twitter and Facebook during the season. However, they are prohibited from using social networks starting 90 minutes before a game, through the game, and until post-game interviews are complete.
The rules extend to people representing a player or coach, such as agents, friends and family, and even include the media covering the games.
