That’s my domain – cascade.mtn.

I did figure out the slow logon problems were a DNS issue. The DNS server wasn’t registering correctly with the Active Directory service and was causing problems. I think this was cbecause I wasn’t actually registering using a domain, like yahoo.com or digitalbackcountry.com – I was just trying to use ‘cascade’. So I ended up creating a fake domain called cascade with a .mtn suffix (for mountain).

When I was in middle/high school I had all kinds of cool ideas for domain names. My best idea was to have an “Olympus” domain with individual computers named after Greek gods (and Zeus as the DC). But for this particular domain I took a little influence from my wife and named all of the computers after mountains in the Cascade Range.

I’m heading to Jersey today but this weekend I want to start on the asp.net/SQL Server part of the project. I patched the SQL Server to Service Pack 3 yesterday and created most of the tables I want to use. Now I just need to program up some ASP database interaction so I can populate my tables with data from Yahoo. It’s going to be very similar to the method we use in OTIS, just customized to my stock holdings and interests.