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  • Cisco Callmanager 4 DCOM Error
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    Cisco Callmanager 4 DCOM Error

    If you happen to be getting a DCOM error attributed to the SQLSvc, it will most likely look like the following: Event Type: Error Event Source: DCOM Event Category: None Event ID: 10009 User: CISCOCCM1\SQLSvc Computer: CISCOCCM1 Description: DCOM was unable to communicate with the computer CICSOCCM2 using any of the configured protocols. What it…

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    Wispapalloza 2011 Presentation Recordings

    Justin Miller over at VA Skywire was kind enough to send along the recordings be made of some WISPA presentations. Here’s the zip file that contains them all: Presentations are: Knowledge Exchange A Marketing Panel whichi will discuss and share experiences and techniques which will guide the particpants to successful marketing campaigns. Luncheon – Craig…

  • 25 Pair / 50 Pin Amphenol Goof Cable

    25 Pair / 50 Pin Amphenol Goof Cable

    If you, like me, accidentally order 25 pair cable with the wrong gender on the ends, you will need a fix. They used to make gender changer adapters, but it appears that the demand for these types of connections have waned so much that they no longer make them. Your only option now is to…

  • Ubiquiti Edge OS

    So at last Thursday’s Airmax convention type thing Ubiquiti announced that they are going to be running their own routing OS, EdgeOS. From what I understand it is repackaged Vyatta. Vyatta has a community edition, and I’m going to operate under the assumption that this is what Edge is based on. It looks like they’ve…

  • MUM 2011 Update 2

    MUM 2011 Update 2

    Soooo much going on. That wasn’t nearly enough time to do ANYTHING. I was only able to talk to about a quarter of the people I wanted to and of those that I did talk to I didn’t have near enough time. It seems like once I finally got hold of someone I had to…

  • Rogue Access Point Detection/Mitigation
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    Rogue Access Point Detection/Mitigation

    This is the article relating to my 2011 MUM presentation. I was trying to think of something fun and different for this year’s MUM, so I came up with rogue access point detection/mitigation. The project surrounds having a Mikrotik probe connect to any open access points it can find. It then trys to access a…

  • MUM 2011 Update 1

    The meet and greet was great! I saw a lot of the same faces, and plenty of new. Janis (not sales) is doing well and hopefully we get some more time to bullchive later. Normands is also doing well, aparently Oliver is almost 3, congrats 😉 Tons of my non Latvian peeps are here and…