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OWIKIT ATR(All Terrain Robot)
The kids and I recently assembled the OWI ATR. It is basically a kit that assembles into a tank style grabber, forklift or rover. It has a corded remote and runs off of 3 AA batteries. Since this has a LOT of parts I broke the build out to about four days…the kiddos have a…
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Mikrotik V5.14 Released
What’s new in 5.14 (2012-Feb-22 12:04): *) winbox – fixed problem when changing main winbox window size and some of the inner windows become hidden; *) backup – backup file creation failed if router identity name had / in it; *) wireless – improved nv2 link stability to reduce control frame timeouts, only AP requires…
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Mikrotik ROS V5.13
What’s new in 5.13 (2012-Feb-14 08:18): *) firewall – to-address can be specified as ip address with mask in addition to ip range; *) traffic-generator – fix crash on multicore systems; *) smb – fixes and improvements; *) sstp – added RC4 cipher support to fix interoperability issues introduced in MS KB2585542 security update. from…
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Cisco – Absence Of A Wildcard Mask In An ACL
If I have a standard ACL entry like this: access-list 98 deny 10.0.0.0 access-list 98 permit any and I apply it to an interface. What addressing does this block? One might think that leaving off the wildcard mask would use the classful boundary(/8 or 0.255.255.255) of the addressing…but one would be wrong. In IOS if…
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Top Command For Mikrotik – Profiler
It was once impossible to see which specific resources were being used where on your router. As of V5 we now have the profiler tool. It is basically Top for MTK. Tool profiler
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Monitor Tape Drives With PLC And IR
We have tape rotation services for many customers here at the datacenter. One of them does tape rotation of a specific job that only two people can verify. These jobs happen to run over night which means these guys can’t verify when we need to swap the tapes. If you don’t change the tape out…