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Vance Hunt
has provided home-user help desk style support for his consulting company for over 6 years. Making his home in beautiful Southern California, Vance provides general computer Q&A for users via his weekly column.
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 | Friday, February 22, 2008 |
| Itty Bitty Speakers. |
| By Vance Hunt |
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I find myself in a need to host a SQL server that is accessible from the web
- I was thinking of using MS SQL 2005 express. Only issue is I have a
dynamic IP address, and I'm getting tired of looking at the current IP address
every time I need to connect. My ISP will provide me with a static IP
address - but it is outrageously expensive. Is there a way to make my
dynamic IP address more permanent?
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More permanent can really depend on perspective and your ISP - my ISP
connection dumps straight into a wireless router that never powers off, and has
had the same dynamic IP address for around a year! On the other hand, my
mother who only recently got DSL, gets a new IP address very frequently.
In any event, I'm right with you when it comes to "that's a pain...."
Don't pay for a static IP. Instead, look at using a free service such
as
DynDNS.com. Steps are very simple. Create a free account, choose
a third-level domain name of your choice to use in conjunction with their
second-level domain names (you choose your domain name to be BobSmith.DynDNS.ORG
for example), use their form to create a host record, and you're done.
From there, you're computer is found using your name, which never changes so you
don't need to keep sending out new IP information. If your next question
is "does it auto-update when things change?" the answer is - not on it's own.
But they do have a desktop client that monitors your public IP address and
automatically updates your host record for you so you don't have to - ever.
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My son came home from collage to visit me over the weekend, and noticed that
my computer uses the desktop speakers he got when he was a freshman in high
school. He teased me a little because he says they are old and outdated
and I should get new ones. Personally, I like them - they are a little
bigger than the one's I've seen on desktops at work, but it comes with an
additional bass part I haven't seen elsewhere. Do speakers have a "shelf
life" like other computer components?
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Absolutely not. Desktop speakers come in two flavors: crappy and
expensive. I swear that those little plastic speakers bundled with new
computers actually have the ability to make things sound worse. And I am
including those that need to be plugged in. If the speaker set doesn't
have a separate bass unit, you just are not going to get anything but a
mid-range and tweeter sound which makes things sound hollow and lifeless.
The flip side is that when manufacturers started giving those low-end speakers
away, they came out with high-end systems that can provide the same sound
experience as a home theater. Finding the in-between that use to come
standard with new home desktop units is very difficult, so if yours are still
working, and sound good to you when you play music - keep 'em!
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