I have written articles on remote access apps before, but Sunday night I was watching Sunday Night Football on my iPad via a remote app, and I thought I would give a quick review of the product I was using. There are several remote control apps out there. And I actually use three different apps… [Read more…]
September 19, 2011
This morning I, and probably many Netflix subscribers received an email from Netflix CEO Reed Hastings apologizing to their subscribers. The apology though was a little half hearted and wasn’t apology for the way Netflix jacked up the prices on it’s users. The apology was more for the way that they did it, without any warning and… [Read more…]
September 13, 2011
A friend of mine recently ask me for a list of iPad apps and games that were good for his 6-year-old. I thought I’d throw together a quick list of the ones that my kids play with and like. Books Ages 2 – 6 Grover’s the monster at the end of this book – This… [Read more…]
September 12, 2011
Setting up redundancy on a Catalyst switch with dual supervisor modules is pretty simple. You must have the same version of IOS to have the supervisors in Hot standby mode. With the modules in place, perform the following at the global config prompt: redundancy keepalive-enable mode sso main-cpu auto-sync running-config This will auto sync the… [Read more…]
September 7, 2011
There is no doubt that the iPad is a great media consumption device. But it can also be a great media creation device. Take me for instance, through the help of creative apps, I can use my iPad to create music, shoot and edit video, perform upgrades on equipment at work, and write this blog… [Read more…]
September 7, 2011
Cisco just released a vulnerability on the Nexus 5000 and 3000 running 5.0(2) and 5.0(3) code, prior to version 5.0(3)N2(1). Version 4.0 code is not affected. The vulnerability occurs when you have a remark configured on an ACL prior to a deny in the ACL such as in the example below: ip access-list acl-ipv4-01 remark this ACL… [Read more…]
September 7, 2011
In Checkpoint firewalls, when having an issue with logging not working for your firewalls, check that the CLM and the CMA databases are in sync. The main indicator that the CMA and CLM are out of sync is that there are objects in the CMA that are not in the CLM To fix this, go… [Read more…]
September 5, 2011
I have been contemplating getting Final Cut Pro X for video editing. I know professionals have been slamming the product, but I am not a professional. I would consider myself a pretty strong amatuer and I love working with video and pictures making sweet home videos. Anyway, I have been to… [Read more…]
September 2, 2011
Over at evolutionofweb.appspot.com they have a very cool visual HTML5 graphic representation of the web as it has evolved over the years. It looks like it was made by some guys on the Chrome development team.
September 2, 2011
The procedure to upgrade the code on a Nexus 5000 is pretty easy. Go to the downloads section on Cisco.com and get the new version of the System software and Kickstart image. A CCO login is required. Put these files on an ftp, secure shell/sftp/scp, or tftp server. Check the space in bootflash on your… [Read more…]
September 26, 2011
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