Down for everyone of just me?

Everybody ran into this at least once in his life. You can't access a website and you're wondering if it's just your internet connection or an outage at the website.

You can easily check this at the website http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/

Change the default telnet client in Windows

I just keep on forgetting what to change to get this working. As I don't want to search everytime I'm just posting a shameless copy from Rene's ICT Notepad.

Enable handling of telnet://hostname:port/ URLs on the command line. With this feature, you can now set PuTTY as the default handler for Telnet URLs

If you run the Registry Editor (Start->Run->regedit.exe) and set the value in:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\telnet\shell\open\command to be: "\path\to\putty.exe %1"
(with the full pathname of your PuTTY executable), you should find that clicking on telnet links in your web browser now runs PuTTY.

Changes to my blog - A New Start

It was about time I started posting something again. My last post was over a year ago, this can't be the idea of a Blog ;)
I decided to change the blog a bit around. I will no longer be trying to pretend I'm a writer/journalist who can create stories which interests everybody.

As of today I will start posting small stories. Things I find interesting. Things I need in my daily life, etc. First one will be how to change the Windows registry so Putty is my default telnet application.

Hope you like the new content. Otherwise we'll meet again somewhere else :D