Just fixed and re-enabled the polling features here at the site. First poll should be coming soon.
I’ve upgraded InetDaemon.Com with a membership system which offers free and paid memberships. Memberships became necessary because spammers are signing up to send me spam through the comment system and the contact me form. Pretty soon, if a spammer want to spam me via the contact form, or via the comments, they will have to pay me money for the privilege. Most spammers walk away when forced to cough up money.
Currently, I’m collecting and organizing the premium content for paid members, starting with several eBook series, audio courses in MP3 format and training videos all focused around certification and job training for Network Operator, Network Administrator and Systems Administrator jobs. InetDaemon.Com is going to become a premier site for helping people get out of dead end minimum wage jobs and into good careers in the IT industry. I want to help people get this training in the most cost effective manner possible.
Until there is premium content, there’s no point in paid memberships. For now, all memberships will be free. Anyone with a free membership will have the option to upgrade later to one of the paid membership options when they are available. Paid members will also receive discounts on any webinars or seminars I offer in future, and will have the ability to directly contact me online to ask a question about the premium content. The membership fees will help cover the costs of operating this site, and providing training for millions of people who want a better life.
I’m in the process of doing some major upgrades at InetDaemon.Com. To combat spam, I’m requiring everyone have a free membership to comment or to send me mail via the contact forms. I’m looking into adding a lot of functionality and the menus and some pages might look a little strange (I don’t have gear for a development site, so everything has to be done on the production version).
Bear with me and pardon the dust..
Windows 7 does not enable a Telnet client during a default installation, which is more a secure posture than previous versions of Windows. I found I was unable to telnet when I went to simulate an HTTP request from the command line to a possibly bogus website and realized that telnet didn’t appear to exist on the Windows 7 system. Previous versions of Windows come with the telnet client installed in the C:\Windows\System32 directory. This is more secure, but there are times when a telnet client is needed. Here’s how you can enable the Telnet client in Windows 7.
I find it interesting that Microsoft still provides the old Telnet client, but still doesn’t include an SSH client. SSH is similar to Telnet, but provides encrypted communication between endpoints. Odd that Telnet is disabled as a security risk–yet the best alternative, SSH is not offered or included.