Don’t forget, most Cisco End-of-Life / End-of-Sale announcements include a list of product migration options. If you need help deciding which product is best for you, send me a message.

• Cisco Catalyst 2940-8TT-S and 2940-8TF-S Compact Switches
• Cisco IOS Software Release 12.2(18)SXF for the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series
• Cisco MCS H2, I2, H3, and I3 Media Convergence Servers with Unified Communications Manager
• Cisco 24-Port Power over Ethernet EtherSwitch Service Module with Integrated Cisco StackWise Connector
• Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series SSL Services Module

A special extended edition of Tech Messages for 2009-06-16 through 2009-06-25:

• MySQL – Restoring a Single Table from a Huge mysqldump File
  This is is hugely helpful if you don't want to restore a 25GB dump file just to grab one table.
• MCS-7828-H3: Hard Drive Errors Cause Service Outage; Hard Drive Firmware Upgrade Required
  Certain Seagate hard drive models used in HP servers (listed in the Products Affected section of this document) that are configured with firmware versions prior to HPG6 might experience drive failure indications.
• Least squares fit of a surface to a 3D cloud of points in Python (with ridiculous application)
  This is how I fix all my problems. Don't you?

Security Updates for June 23, 2009 affect users of Microsoft, Red Hat, and Sun products.

I track security updates for the following vendors: Apple, Cisco, FreeBSD, Microsoft, Red Hat, and Sun Microsystems. I chose these vendors based on my own needs for the networks and systems I manage. I’ve also found that updates from these vendors tend to catch the major updates necessary for common software applications. If you have other vendors you would like me to provide updates for, send me a message.

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Don’t forget, most Cisco End-of-Life / End-of-Sale announcements include a list of product migration options. If you need help deciding which product is best for you, send me a message.

• Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Content Switching Module Software Releases 3.1.x and 4.1.x
• Cisco Content Delivery Engines CDE100, CDE30x, and CDE400
• Cisco Content Delivery Applications for TV Streaming Releases 1.4.x, 1.5.1.x, 1.5.3.x, and 1.6.x
• Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series 48-port 100BASE-BX10-D Fast Ethernet Line Card
• Cisco Content Delivery Applications for Visual Quality of Experience Releases 2.0.x, 2.1.x, 3.0.x, and 3.1.x

As I mentioned previously, I tried Safari 4 during the beta and decided I didn’t like it. When asked what I didn’t like, I had a hard time remembering. In the end, I decided it wasn’t something big, but several small things that really killed it for me. I’ve created this list to keep track of these annoyances.

1. Dialog boxes render all other browser windows inoperable.
2. Items in the URL bar history can only be found by typing the beginning of the URL, not some other part. This means the only way to quickly get to a page is by clicking on a bookmark.
3. The “Copy Link Location” option that appears in the context sensitive menu produced by right-clicking on URLs doesn’t always appear. So far I’ve only noticed in when using Gmail…
4. No feature to undo a closed tab?
5. Autocompletion in the URL bar actually autocompletes in the bar rather than just giving me options to choose from. It seems that I invariably want some shorter version of the URL rather than the one it is recommending.
6. RSS feeds. I’m probably just doing this wrong, but I want to use Google Reader for RSS. I like that Firefox gives me the ability to subscribe to RSS feeds in multiple readers. Safari wants to be my RSS reader or let me choose an application to do it. I guess I could set up a Fluid app or something, but that seems a little over the top…

I’ll try to keep the list up to date as I use the product.