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Flash A Cisco 7960 To SIP
I have to say it was a painful process…it took me about an hour of tweaking…mostly my own fault…hehe. Most of you guys have seen a Cisco phone at some point. If you’ve ever watched a show on Fox, you most likely have seen one…hehe They make great phones, and not just for CallManager. You…
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Mikrotik IPSec Tunnel/VPN When Both Sides Have Dynamic IPs/DHCP
At first glance, one would think this is impossible. It is NOT impossible, thanks to some scripting and a couple of free services. This will work for straight IPSec tunnels, PPTP tunnels, IPIP tunnels or even IPIP tunnels encrypted with IPSec 🙂 Step 1 is to figure out what our public IP is and a…
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Bad Typing Makes You A Tree Killer
I type quickly and therefor have to hit the backspace every now and then. The thought occurred to me that every time I type the wrong letter it uses electricity, then when I hit backspace it uses more electricity, then when I type the correct letter it uses more electricity. My poor typing uses more…
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Send Yourself Emails Via a Script/Cron That Attaches a File – Linux
I’m using a nice little utility called mutt. To get this guy installed and you are running CentOS, use: yum install mutt To send yourself an email with an attachement and no text: mutt -a /tmp/BackupFile.tar -s "Your backup" [email protected] < /dev/null To send the same file but with text try this: mutt -a /tmp/BackupFile.tar…
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Pop Quiz Friday – Redirect Users Web Traffic Going Out
This will be the maiden flight of my pop quiz series. I’m going to try and do them at least every other Friday, if not every Friday. I’ll give you until the following Thursday to put your answer in the comments section. Without further delay, here’s today’s quiz. You have decided that you don’t want…
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MUM Poland
I saw that the Poland MUM is like a month away. Any of you guys going? Looks like they will have some security lectures that should be interesting.
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10Gb Routing and NOT From One Of The Biggies
So I got yet another Vyatta email…they send out a lot of updates. This one was touting 10 gig capability in their 3500 series 2U appliance. For the uninitiated, Vyatta is a routing platform built off of open source packages…sounds familiar, eh…hehe. Vyatta configs in files and doesn’t have a GUI and such. They thought…