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Boise State Broncos - Ranked (?)

September 17, 2006 on 2:03 pm | In sports | No Comments

The Boise State football team vaulted into the AP rankings this week, no doubt due to their 17-10 win over power-house WYOMING.

(sarcasm intended)

Associated Press Top 25
No.	School	Record	Points	Prev
1	Ohio State	3-0	1617	1
2	Auburn	3-0	1507	3
3	Southern California	2-0	1494	4
4	West Virginia	3-0	1419	5
5	Florida	3-0	1350	7
6	Michigan	3-0	1297	11
7	Texas	2-1	1180	8
8	Louisville	3-0	1121	12
9	Georgia	3-0	1105	10
10	LSU	2-1	1085	6
11	Virginia Tech	3-0	931	14
12	Notre Dame	2-1	912	2
13	Oregon	3-0	833	18
14	Iowa	3-0	831	16
15	Tennessee	2-1	585	13
16	TCU	3-0	527	20
17	Oklahoma	2-1	510	15
18	Florida State	2-1	466	9
19	Clemson	2-1	399	_
20	Arizona State	3-0	384	22
20	Boston College	3-0	384	23
22	California	2-1	383	21
23	Nebraska	2-1	162	19
24	Penn State	2-1	143	25
25	Boise State	3-0	110	_

Others Receiving Votes: Alabama 94, Miami 78, Rutgers 46, UCLA 40,
Michigan St. 33, Wisconsin 29, Missouri 22, Georgia Tech 19, Texas Tech 16,
Texas A&M 9, Arkansas 2, Purdue 2.

All I can say is: O RLY?

$50 says that Boise State would lose to any one of the teams listed in the “Others Receiving Votes” category. And they’d probably lose to each of the teams that THOSE teams beat last weekend as well.

Way to go, AP.

How to clear your DNS cache in Windows XP

September 5, 2006 on 12:55 pm | In windows xp | No Comments

I spent the last 10 or 15 minutes banging my head against the wall, trying to figure out why a new subdomain that I set up on my hosting account (via cpanel) wasn’t working.

There were really 2 problems here — first, cpanel spits out an error message saying that the DNS zone could not be added

Bind reloading on wave using rndc zone: […] Error reloading bind on wave: rndc: connection to remote host closed This may indicate that the remote server is using an older version of the command protocol, this host is not authorized to connect, or the key is invalid.

Which would of course make any rational person think that the domain wasn’t added, right? WRONG. Cpanel always spits out this error message, even when the add was successful.

The second problem was that I was still unable to view the site on my local computer running XP, which made me think that the DNS entry wasn’t set up correctly. WRONG.

To fix this problem, I simply had to clear the Windows XP DNS cache.
To do this, go to Start->Run and type “ipconfig /flushdns” .

(That’s ipconfig-space-slash-flushdns)

Something will briefly flash on your screen, and the DNS cache will now be cleared.