Monthly Archives: November 2012

Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox and Opera Benchmarks

I'm not a browser war kinda dude but I had some free time and decided to run some benchmarks after installing IE10 today on my Windows 7 workstation.  Here are the results of what I found. Browsers Tested Internet Explorer 10 Chrome 23.0.1271.95 m Firefox 17.0 Opera 12.11 Benchmarks/Tests Performed V8 Benchmark Suite (7) Futuremark ACID3 RoboHornet Alpha1 Octane v1 Environment Windows 7 Professional x64 (Lenovo ThinkCentre m90p [Intel i5, 4GB RAM]).  Tested 1 browser at a time;  Continue reading →

IOPS Calculator

Here are some of the links I have for IOPS calculators on my site: https://techish.net/hardware/raid-iops-mbps-and-more-excel-cheat-sheet/ https://techish.net/hardware/iops-calculator-and-raid-calculators-estimators/ Some useful information on some of the graphing I had done with SQLIO measurements https://techish.net/windows/sqlio-scripts-and-graphs/ https://techish.net/windows/visualizing-sqlio-disk-benchmark-results-using-a-pivotchart/ Testing Disk IO in Linux https://techish.net/linux/testing-disk-in-linux-using-fio/ Continue reading →

End of Availability of VMware ESX 4.x

 
Dear Valued Customer,
VMware is announcing an End of Availability (“EoA”) date for VMware vSphere®   ESX hypervisor 4.x and for VMware Management Assistant (“vMA”) versions 1 and   4. The end of   availability date is August 15, 2013. This is a follow-on   communication to the general announcement made in July 2011 in connection   with the launch of vSphere 5.0.
This notification has NO IMPACT on existing vSphere ESXi 4.x   environments, and customers are NOT required to Continue reading →

Bulk add TXT DNS Record to Zones in Windows

Had more than a handful of domains I needed to add TXT record for in Windows DNS (2003). I did it using dnscmd from 2003 Toolkit and command line.
This will enumerate the zones (I search for Primary and exclude reverse):

dnscmd /enumzones | find /I Primary | find /V Rev > zones.txt

After I have a zones.txt file, I then loop through it to add the TXT record.

for /f %x in (zones.txt) do dnscmd . /recordadd %x @ TXT v=spf1 mx -all