Introduction to Internet DNS

so today I want to talk about domain DNS so this is an important topic especially in this modern world with everything going to cloud services and internet based services and all that kind of stuff basically how to manage your DNS up on the web so you buy a domain name and then the question is is how do we then point that domain name to different uh web server so how does www.geek.com get to the the the Apache server that will provide you a website uh when you email you know reviews gekra docomo how do those emails get routed to the email server so that I actually receive them and can respond to them so nowadays uh domain DNS is a very important thing and again it's one of those things that's that's rather simple uh to to deal with once you understand what's going on so again the big thing to remember whenever we're talking about DNS what is DNS DNS resolves domain names to IP addresses so whether it's local DNS whether it's web domain DNS that is what we're doing and so we just have to understand a little bit about how that process works in order to make domain DNS pretty pretty easy to use so let's go over to the computer so I can kind of show you what's going on with geekbrains DNS so you can get an idea so if we go over to the computer now you can see that this is you know yes I in fact do use use GoDaddy so this is my GoDaddy account and I've opened up the information for geekbrains these are the DNS settings just for Geek Brand dump.com it's not for Eli the computer guy it's not for Tech hyen RSS it's not for anything else it's just for Geek Brand dump.com so the important thing to re realize whenever you're dealing with with DNS on the web is remember that all the different web services that you use are not don't necessarily use the same service provider so a lot of people when they buy their Hosting account when they buy their domain name when they buy their email Services when they buy all those Services they buy it from one provider so they go to GoDaddy and they buy the domain name and the hosting and the email and if you do that then all of these settings are set up automatically and you don't have to worry about anything else but you do have to realize that you can buy a domain name from GoDaddy you can buy a Hosting account from from HostGator and you can buy your email Services directly from Microsoft and that's where these DNS settings come in because then you have have to configure the domain name that you purchase through GoDaddy to be able to send the data to to those or to the the traffic to those other web services so here's the first page so this is basic domain de details right here so you know has the auto renew basically whether or not you knew your domain name again one of the things I would say if you're going to buy a domain name is always buy a domain name for 10 years your domain name your whatever.com is probably going to be about the one the most valuable thing that you own for your company like liter literally because that's your name and especially in the modern world and it's only going to get more that way so a lot of people buy their domain names for only like a year or two and that's just dumb again my my first domain name starving geek. info that I was very proud of um I lost it simply because I didn't realize I had to renew and then literally one day after the expiration somebody else came in and stole the damn thing so I would say always make sure whenever you're buying domain names buy it just for 10 years it only costs 12 bucks a year now so 10 years is $120 honestly out of all the expenses you're going to deal with your with your business $120 ain't piss it ain't nothing so if you're not willing to spend $120 on a domain name then go do something else because you shouldn't be in business but anyways you go down here you can lock now here's the important thing to realize is the name server so this is the big thing so again so if you are hosting uh your web your website uh on GoDaddy server so you're you're hosting it on the same place that you buy your domain name you don't have to worry about Chang in these name servers but like before I used to have so Eli the computer guy and a few other sites the domain name was on Go Daddy but then they pointed to a dedicated server over at onein one.com so what I had to do is at this name server here I had to change these name servers to point to one in one.com name servers so again doesn't matter if you're hosting everything at one place but if you're hosting these on different places you have to set that up so it was basically I had to go over to onein one.com I had to tell oneandone.com I was using Eli the computer guy from a different DNS provider that then plug that into their name servers then I had to come over here to GoDaddy and change the name server configuration here from godaddy's name servers to one and one's name servers so that's one thing to to keep in mind then you can do forwarding here forwarding is a nice little little trick when you when you want to point a uh your your domain name to a different website without uh doing anything too complicated so I could literally Point geekbuy docomond it.com so originally it was Everyman it.com and I switched everything over to Eli thecomputer guide.com so what I did was since everything was going over to Eli thecomputer guide.com I forwarded Everyman it.com to elithecomputerguy so when you went to Everyman it.com you were automatically forward to Eli thecomputer guu.vn kept all the traffic coming in and didn't have to worry about any tedious problems so that that's what the forwarding is there this is especially good like say if you're going to change a domain name or you're retiring a domain name then point the old domain name to to the new one uh the only thing with that is remember you still have to pay for the old domain name um so we go down here premium DNS that's kind of like an upsell here DS records host names a lot of this I wouldn't normally worry about if it comes up learn about it but the big ones up here is the name servers and the forwarding so past that then we can go to the DNS Zone file so this is the super complicated scary stuff that's really not that bad and so there's a few things going on here so the first thing is your a record so your a host this is very very very very important so basically this little Amper is it amp whatever the hell this is the a symbol what this you point this to is you point this to this to the specific IP address of your server for this domain so geekbrains to 208109 10814 so if somebody pings not ww not ww just just geek brain dump.com that should resolve to this IP address so this is normally where you put your your web server but you know again with everything it could be a little different but normally so 208109 do1 208109 10814 this is the actual web server for geekbrains symbol you point to there so that means if somebody plugs in to a UR to to an address bar simply geekbrains here if they ping geekbrains here so on and so forth now you come down and you start looking at the C names the aliases so calendar. gekra dump.com email. geek brain dump.com facts. geek brain dump and the one you know www.ge brain dump.com so www is a c name or an alias So within here the points to you can't point to an IP address you actually have to point to a domain name or to the a record so you'll notice FTP points to the a record which is this which is 208109 10814 www points to the A record which happens to be 208109 10814 the important thing to understand with this though is you theoretically could Point these at other things you could Point FTP to ftp.com computer guy.com and it would go off in a different direction or even www you could point that at something else entirely so in here is where you plug in the domain names for other services so you'll see I use Gmail for email services so mail. geek brain.com gets pointed to G H S.G google.com again they have all this different stuff in here so these are the cname records that you need to deal with then past that we go down and we take a look at the mail exchange records the MX records are the other important record uh to be thinking about whenever you're managing your domain so the mail exchange record this says where is SMTP traffic going to get sent to so where is your email traffic going to get sent to now the cool thing with with MX records is you can have multiple MX records so basically what this means is you can have multiple email servers that when email gets sent if it doesn't get to one email server it will go to a different email server a different email server different email server so here I have what do I have I have five different email servers and so it comes in to the highest priority so that's actually 10 here and so first it tries to get to sent to aspm x.l.google.com if for some reason that does not accept the email then goes up to the 20 the alt one. aspm x.l.google.com if that doesn't work for some reason it goes to 30 if that doesn't reason it goes to 40 doesn't that doesn't work it goes to 50 so in here as far as priorities go it goes to the the lowest number first so number one has the highest priority like number 99 has the lowest priority so here the first server it's going to try to go to is aspx aspm x.l.google.com if it doesn't work there it'll go to the next it'll go to the next it'll go to the next it'll go to the next so these are the MX records now generally whenever you're setting up the MX records whenever you're using anybody's email Services they will give you multiple uh servers uh that you can point to again to make sure that if if this one server is down you don't have any other problems the one thing though is if you're running your own uh Exchange Server if you're running your own email servers you may only have one uh record here for the MX so this may point to your server that is sitting on your premises the one thing you have to realize then there is if for some reason if the email can't get to that one server then it will fail out entirely and it will get bounced back and the person will say that you can't receive an email so that's what's going on with those MX records we go down here and we do text I personally never mess messed with text and service records and then this is the name servers but the main things that you have to worry about is this is your a record your a record should point to the main server the main web server uh for your domain so again geek Brain dump.com Points at 208109 10814 your C names then either point to the a record or they point to a different domain name and then your MX records They point to your mail servers and that's basically really all there is to the internet DNS stuff again this is one of those things that you just you know you have to play with in order to be comfortable but you know once once once you get used to it it's not a bad thing the big thing that I will say though the big thing that I will say big you will be tested on this is remember uh when you make changes to the DNS records th those changes have to be replicated out through all the DNS servers so this is not one of those settings where you hit save and it will immediately start working once you hit save that then has to get replicated out all over the world right and so it's very important whenever you're making modifications to the DNS that you that you do it right or you do it as right as you think because basically what has to happen is once you hit save then you go have a cup of coffee and then you have lunch and basically nowadays is a lot faster it used to take like 24 hours to replicate nowadays it takes about an hour to replicate but it really is like once you change your settings to DNS you need to go have lunch and then come back and then see if everything is working properly that is one thing that I see with Noobs uh where they run into real problems with DNS is they make changes they hit save then they go to see if the changes took effect and then they aren't seeing what they expect to see and then they go back and they change it again and they're running back and forth and it's like you're not giving it enough time to replicate it needs at least at least an hour to replicate all this data out again theoretically it can take up the 24 hours but at least one hour but that's what you need to know for your domain your web domain NS settings again a very very very useful tool and especially something very important now them.com v.com if you just virtualized 100 servers and now you're trying to figure out how to back them up they have solutions for esxi they have solutions for hyperv and as you guys like they have free stuff so if you are dealing with a virtualized environment and you're trying to figure out a backup solution take a look at vm.com nerds we can fix that do if you're thinking about starting your own computer services 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but about the same the same dimensions otherwise the cool thing with the the bo boom phones is they actually put out music on both sides so like a lot of these uh a lot of these um uh Bluetooth speakers they only put out music on one side so the thing with this is the idea is it's supposed to give you 360° sound uh from what I can hear the sound is good um I like the sound again I'm Eli the computer guy I'm not the Eli the music afficianado but I found it to be good it does have a microphone built into this thing so you can use it as a speaker phone or whatnot um and I like it again they have a little power button you know sound up sound down Bluetooth connection now if we go over to the uh the computer one of the things I can show you is what's kind of cool with this is that you can actually connect two of these boom phones to one device at one time so if you want to have more of like a I I I don't know like a a studio not a studio but like like an auditorium effect or whatever so I think that's kind of cool especially since the music comes out both sides uh if you connect two of these to uh to to one device I think that would push out a lot of sound a lot of music that seems like a lot like what a lot of the kids would like uh if you go you can go and you can take a look and they've got all kinds of different colors and all that and they can tell you all the kinds of different information uh basically you just go to Boom phones.com you will see they do come in at The $99 price point the $100 price point uh again as I will say for all this I think all this mobile stuff is ridiculously priced but within the Ridiculousness of the price that seems about appropriate right everything seems to be a 100 bucks for mobile devices anymore and what I can say is the battery length uh does seem to work well uh the sound as far as I I was concerned was good uh it has a nice build quality to it um I'm not sure if it's technically waterproof probably not waterproof but it's weather is resistant I wouldn't leave it out in a rainstorm but I mean I definitely think you could drag it along with you and you'd be fine um so it seems like a good thing so this is the the boom phones pocket speaker um and if you're interested in a in a little pocket speaker I would say you should definitely take a look at it I think it's seems like a good thing to me so this question comes from Diego F simple question which OS I assume linux-based and virtualization software would you recommend to use on a host for virtualization if I for instance want to virtualize in a single machine a free NZ a cent OS with web applications and another Linux drro what should I use then again freeware is always welcome but I am no enemy to licensed software so basically this person is looking for a solution for a virtualized environment he's willing to use free stuff he's willing to use pay for stuff he's asking what is the best thing for for this particular situation the first thing that I have to say is remember that virtualization is not always a good option so if you heard me reading this one of the things should have really stuck out to one of these operating systems he talked about free Nas now if we're talking about Cent OS and we're talking about another Linux Dro we're talking about Windows and all that kind of stuff there's all kinds of options for virtualization but when you talk about free Nas remember what is free NZ freeas is basically a Nas a network attached storage device or it can be used as a sand a storage array Network so uh so basically being able to store data so generally generally you would not virtualize ize free NZ the only time I can imagine virtualizing free NZ is for like a lab environment where you have to do it for some reason like for me I'm going to do some more classes on free NZ and so in order to show you how to install it and configure it I will try to do free Nas within a virtual environment on the Mac but the only reason I'm doing that is so that I can use my screen capture software to show you what's going on um and that's about it like literally the only reason I would virtualize free naaz is because I have to use screen capture software that will only be able to capture stuff within a virtualized environment if you kind of get what I'm saying otherwise I would not do that I would that's about the only reason I would do free Nas so the first thing that I would say is don't virtualize free Nas Nas a Nas device is your storage device you don't virtualize that that's what I would say out front then you come to C OS and you come to Linux and windows and all that other kind of stuff honestly what I would suggest you do really the best solution is I would take a look at vmware's esxi so esxi is the free hypervisor they also have V spere which is the hypervisor manager and they have a free version of that so you can do it all for free now that is a bare metal hypervisor so that gives you uh the least resource requirement on your system in order to keep it running uh also since you don't really have a real host operating system you have less of security vulnerabilities and and everything else so that is what I would go for there's a lot of other bare metal hypervisors out there there's Citrix and all that kind of stuff but what I like about esxi is it can use the local storage so if you use Citrix you actually have to create a storage pool or a storage device and and that turns into its own mess so especially for a new person asking this question I would think esxi is the easiest thing you go out you download VMware esxi you install the hypervisor onto the to the server uh then you install the management software W onto whatever computer you want to manage the server with and then you figure it all out it'll take you a day to figure out but that is absolutely that that is the best solution generally unless there's another reason so uh so if you're going to virtualize your environment I would say do esxi and then I would say do not do not virtualize free Nas unless you have some weird screwy ass reason because remember with free Nas um at least the last version I used the operating system can't be installed on the same drive as where you're actually going to store information so you actually have to create multiple uh logical hard drives in or virtual drives in order to free Nas to connect to it's just a mess so don't virtualize freeas otherwise I would say use esxi the next question is one of those questions dear Charles I don't know what you want me to tell you um I saw your tutorial on YouTube and I need your help help resolve some problems I'm facing with people hacking into my host local server and website hosting company and stealing information about my customers my website blah blah blah is like dead right now because all Communications between me and new or old customers is literally fished and sent to other computers I hope you can do something about this uh what can you do to restore complete Security of my emails and website Communications with clients um what can I do I can do a lot lot of things I can do amazing things I can do mindblowing things for your security what am I going to do sit here and laugh at you obviously of course uh remember I'm not a consultant anymore um again if if you actually in fact want to hire me I am really expensive I am expensive to the point I will make my hourly rate so expensive that you don't want to hire me like starting at $1,000 an hour or something seriously I like YouTube I don't I don't want to do Consulting so what am I going to do for you um nothing what you need to do for yourself that is going to be the question and so when you come to issues like this you you run I run into this a lot with the whole startup Community where people build their businesses on the web um and then they do it with duct tape and shoe string and not enough budget and then they wonder why they get hacked to hell all hacked to hell and back and everything goes to hell so what you really need to do is you need a budget that's a thing you need to pull some money out of your pocket and you need to budget uh what security is is worth to you um and then go from there so with most people I mean really what you need to do is you need to learn about what you what you should do the most valuable thing for you is to learn about web security so learn about firewalls learn about hardening your operating system learn about hardening your website whatever it is you're doing uh and go in and do all of that kind of stuff that is what you should do and that that's that's a lot of stuff I mean that that's why we get that's why we get paid the big bucks because that's not something I can answer in 3 minutes or five minutes or I can fix in 10 minutes I mean that's that's a lot of things that you have to look at so what you really should do is you should look at website hardening server hardening firewalls all of that kind of stuff now if you don't want to do that you're like Eli I do something else I'm not a geek that's why I want to hire people like you well then you should probably go out and what I would say is you should take a look at services such as either Rackspace or even GoDaddy has managed servers now so a lot of people don't realize that like a lot of these companies right way back in the day way back in the day you could simply buy shared hosting that cost you five bucks a month and then after that you could buy virtual private servers and those were like kind of like crappy virtual servers you can still buy them for like $30 a month uh you got to configure them and futs with them performance was sucked then you had dedicated servers so dedicated servers is actually something that I use because I know what I'm doing uh where you can go out and you can lease a server so our server cost about $150 a month from GoDaddy I am completely responsible for it uh but I get a full server well beyond that they have what are called manage servers so GoDaddy has managed servers Rackspace has managed servers a lot of these companies have managed servers they going to cost you a lot of money but it's your business what's more valuable having your business up or the money right um and so like I said I think with GoDaddy if you go with their managed servers like their minimum cost is like $350 or $400 per month but what you get with that is they will fix these issues for you at least within a certain realm basically when you sign the contract they'll tell you exactly what they're responsible for but that's a nice thing so not only are you renting that server but you're also paying for that support that's when we talk about paying for maintenance contract paying for support contracts that kind of stuff that's why you pay that extra money so if you have any problems you just call these people up and you say fix it now this is why I'm paying you good money right so that's really what you need to do um I would say again I like I like GoDaddy I don't have an issue with GoDaddy God GoDaddy has these managed servers again I said they cost you like $350 $400 month um I would say they are probably a good option for you if you want to go for the the the higher touch you know really nice Nordstrom or whatever version of manage servers you can go with Rackspace but Rackspace is going to cost you like $700 to $1,000 a month but again what you're paying for is you're paying for that support when you have a problem like you're talking about here it means you can pick up the phone they will deal with the firewalls they will deal with the backup they will deal with the security they will deal with all that and again that's one thing with all these emails with people asking me for help what you guys got to realize is this stuff costs money right I mean that's everybody wants everything for free and so what you have to realize is when you're going when you were thinking about this you have to budget this is worth $500 a month to me this is worth $30,000 a year to me this is worth $200 a year to me you have to figure out that budget but what I would say for this is go with the manage servers um because again then you pay them $400 a month and then they just fix all of this and everything's easier beyond that you would go for a consultant like I say if it was me back in the day and then me back in the day was going to charge you $100 to $150 an hour if you have a problem like this they talking about anywhere between 5 to 10 hours for the work probably to clean it up so you're talking about about $1,000 so um so I would say just go with a manage Ser manage server GoDaddy or Rackspace there's there are other ones out there but those would be the ones I would probably recommend now this question comes from Nathan e just a quick question I am 18 and I have knowledge of HTML CSS JavaScript and I'm in the middle of learning PHP I'm I'm just wondering at what point are you able to get an entry job work experience how much do you need to know and how much experience do you need here's the thing that's the question everybody has they're like Eli how much knowledge do I need um and it's really sad cuz way back in the day I swear to you way back in the day I actually had this guy contact me and he had his master's degree in it he had his mcse and he had his ccnp and he was like what else can I do to get a job it's like dude if you can't get a job with that you need to go be a florist you know what I'm saying like and the important thing to understand it is is this this business is all about confidence it really is the more confident you are the more successful you will be so if you are not confident in your abilities you'll get a master's degree and an mcse and a ccnp and you'll still want to get something else because you're just not confident you're good enough so what I would say honestly with what you have right here start putting our resumés what's the worst anybody is going to do they're going to laugh at you and say no but you know that's not the end of the world you should get used to people laughing at you because they're going to laugh at you for the rest of your career um so so what I would say is start putting out your resume right now again as I talk about again and again and again and again look at meetup.com find startup meetups in your area find PHP meet meetups in your area find JavaScript meetups in your area find HTML or css meetups in your area go to meetups go to these type those type of tech networking events um and just start Ping out your card or just start talking to people and then beyond that just start putting out your resume um the the minute the the point that you should put out your resume is the point that you feel comfortable putting out your resume and there really there's no scientific there's no math there's any no nothing like that it's just when do you feel comfortable so what I would say so if you know HTML if you know CSS if you know JavaScript if you're learning PHP start putting out your resumes right now and um cuz yeah I mean what what what have you got to lose I mean that's what I would say and the other thing to realize is again um a lot of things take time and business a lot people don't realize that things take time like I'm in a contract right now to have work done in my house um this contract started back in like December 20th and it is now July 10th or something and work probably won't start till August so that's like eight months and that's for work I know I needed to get done right so that's one thing a lot of people don't realize is it takes time for stuff to work through systems so if you start putting out your resume now here's a deal somebody may not hire you next week or next month or in two months but your resume may start filtering through the process so that in four months or five months or six months you might actually start getting calls back so that's why you need to go out now especially like like I say when you go out and start doing networking when you start networking people with people people aren't going to hire you I mean unless you're brilliant people aren't going to hire you today it's not like you're going to go out to a PHP Meetup and somebody's going to be like I need a kid like you you're hired it's not how it works you're going to go to PHP Meetup and you're going to meet somebody you're going to talk with them and you're going to kind of like them and they're going to kind of like you and then you're not going to see them for like two months and you're going to get JavaScript you're going to CS you're going to do all these other things and then and then like two months later you're going to run into that person and they're going to be like hey what have you been up to and you be like well I've been going to all these other meetups and I designed this app hey look at this app isn't that kind of cool and they'll be like wow that is kind of cool you know you know we were talking I actually own a company why why don't you come over and we'll discuss all this stuff so that's what I would say is just get out there now it's one of those things it's just going to take time anyway so you might as well start now and you will be surprised how successful you can be with how little information I would say so that would be my thought go now and start networking and putting out rums that is your best bet so the final thoughts for today oh my golly my golly the final thoughts for today so I have been getting all kinds of crap for my little Samsung Gear live unboxing the other day so I got this thing uh a couple of days ago and I unboxed it for you guys and when I unboxed it I had all kinds of problems with it and uh I've actually learned to love it I actually think it's a really great device we're going to do a review on it probably in the next few class es or whatever um it is a pain to get on the wrist though but anyways one of the funny parts that that that the responses that I got from doing the uh doing the the unboxing is basically when I did the unboxing I I did the unboxing live like I I did some cutting and some splicing just to take out the 15 minutes of updates that I had to go through but otherwise I did it live as I unboxed it I wanted to show you all the problems and all the the the quirks and so one of the things that I want you guys to think about is a lot of people are laughing at at me now they're like when was the last time you used an Android device Eli you should really know what the hell you're doing Eli the computer guy more like Eli the stupy head guy right but one of the reasons that I do the unboxings the way that I do the unboxings is I'm not trying to be was it Marquee brownley right I'm not trying to be soldier who knows best I'm not trying to do these clean clear awesome unboxings so you think all of these devices are sexy what I'm trying to show you is as a almost 38-year-old Tech professional how do you respond to the device as soon as you pull it out of the box right because think about that when you go into the corporate world right when you give these devices to the CEOs you're going to put the device on the CEO's desk and you're going to assume that the CEO or the manager is going to be able to deal with this device and then what you're going to find out is hey that manager is really really good at what they do and they're not really good at technology and you're going to see this device go winging across the office as they start screaming so one of the things I'm trying to show you guys is is me when I pull this thing out of the box how easy is it to interact with how intuitive is it Apple friendly again one of the things you have to say with Apple Computers right or like the the Apple tablets on the iPhone is a 5-year-old can use one of these things like you can pull it out of the box and you can start using it within 3 seconds so one of the questions is like when you get these Android devices how hard is it so when I was when I was pressing on the thing and trying to give it voice instructions um I wasn't screwing around it really was confusing to know wait a minute okay I pressed it once wait a minute now can I talk it now or no do I have to press it again oh no right and so that's just one of the things that I really want you guys to think about because a lot of people get all high and mighty right you know all the 23-year-olds and all the 30-year-olds oh I've got all I am so cool at Tech I can configure smartphones and they they they they they come across to the world as complete smartasses and what I'm trying to show you guys is I I really do I have a g Galaxy Samsung S4 that I've been using for over a year that I absolutely adore I honestly believe it's better than an iPhone but even having that Android phone for over a year this thing was a bit of pain in the ass to to originally configure so again like I say when I pulled it out of the box for whatever reason Google Now wasn't working on my my my uh my Android phone my Galaxy S4 and therefore this wasn't communicating properly so then I had to go in do troubleshooting do all that kind of stuff so what I'm trying to show you guys with all these kinds of unboxings is is how do real people respond to these devices because again remember we are the support for for the corporation we are the support for the end users all the end user cares about is that at the end of the day that they can use the device effectively in order to make their lives easier it doesn't matter whether you know how to use the device it doesn't matter if you're a brainiac on the device what matters is can you translate that information to the end user and so that's why I'm trying to trying to show you with these unboxings and all that what it's like for real person because again like I say like I said with like pushing this thing pushing it tapping it in order to talk to it I mean I am I am from the first generation of you know backback forward uppercut H yeah from you know Street Fighter 2 and all that you know I'm used to all these kind of weird keystrokes and stuff to get things to happen and even with me trying to figure out exactly when to touch the screen and when to top stop touching the screen was a bit of pain in the butt so that's what I'll say that's all I'll say again I know you guys like to laugh at me apparently it is good sport to laugh at me but do realize one of the reasons that I do with these kind of unboxings is what I'm trying to show you guys is what is it like for a rather normal person to pull this thing out of the box and what can you expect from the end user is it Apple easy to use or is it something like this where it seems like it should be more intuitive than it is that's my thought and I do love this though I do like I finally got this thing to work this is awesome man this is like this is like cutting Ed Edge beautiful technology it really is like and the contextual thing works um I you can you can say you know remind me to do something when you get to a place so like today I was just doing an experiment so so I said remind me to buy coffee when I get to Starbucks and literally when I walked in the door of Starbucks it said buy coffee so this is cool this re this really is cool at the end of the day but what I will say and we'll do a review later it was a pain oh oh my God I almost threw this thing like into the pond oh it was a pain in the ass to finally get set up but there you go so those those are the final thoughts for the day just realize not everybody is as geeky smart as you so just a reminder geekbrains growing growing growing I think we're up to about 124 authors now and I don't know 530 540 posts so people keep writing writing writing away I did had a have a question today uh one of the sponsors uh we have a new sponsor that's going to be coming on board was asking whether they or not they could write for Geek brain dump.com and what I told them and what I tell you guys is I want everybody to write for Geek brain dump.com so the idea is both the noobs can write for Geek brain dump.com CIS admins can write for Geek brain dump.com and the vendors because again you know a lot of people don't don't think about it but vendors are re a real part of our ecosystem right they are the ones that actually manufacture this equipment they are the ones actually producing the software so if you are a vendor anything like that yes you are more than I am more than happy to to have you uh right right post for us again up here you know this Cloud security problems what can be done this was actually written by the CEO of pixir um because he wants to talk more about Cloud security and all that so that's one of those things also do remember geek brain dump the Meetup is growing growing growing we now have 87 uh members Geeks and we have 25 people hopefully coming to our first shindig and I am working right now on finding a restaurant so we have we have a couple of people going out there hopefully uh that we'll find us a restaurant so we can do this thing in the next week or two um and if they don't find us a restaurant well next week I will go out and start pounding the pavement to find us a restaurant so one way or another within the next couple two to three weeks we will have we will uh we will have a restaurant and we will actually do our first Shen dig again that's one of the things I will tell you guys in the real world of business you know like I told you before about being a computer person like you you never are too senior not to run Cable in business you are never too senior not to pound the pavement so again like I say I have a couple of people that are trying to help me out with this but if they can't find us a place I will be out there knocking on restaurant and bar doors next week saying hey we need to do a Meetup can we do it in our place but but very very very very happy about all the stuff going on with geek brain dump.com

Channel: Eli the Computer Guy

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Keywords: Eli, the, Computer, Guy, Hypertext Transfer Protocol (Internet Protocol), Domain Name System (Protocol), The Internet (Media Genre), Intro

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Length: 41min 51sec (2511 seconds)

Published: Fri Jul 11 2014