Posted on in Programming
This is one of those annoying little things I have to do ever so often. There are two different commands to accomplish this task depending on the specific situation.
If you've made a lot of changes to a file and need to back all of those changes out, you can …
Posted on in IT Management
I got a call from GoDaddy the other day warning me that VeriSign is raising the price of domain registrations. This seems like a big deal because the price hike is happening on July 1st. The truth, though, is that VeriSign announced the price increase six months ago in December …
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If you have SSH open toward the Internet, you are surely aware of the number of brute force password attempts your server sees everyday. Although a good password policy may make these attempts nothing more than an annoyance, each connection to your SSH daemon takes up valuable server resources. I …
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If you've ever seen this, you've felt my pain:
# mount -vv -t nfs4 slap:/export/a/b/c /mnt
mount: pinging: prog 100003 vers 4 prot tcp port 2049
mount.nfs4: slap:/export/a/b/c failed, reason given by server: No such file or directory
My original thought was …
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Viewing and changing the time zone in Mac OS X via the command line uses the systemsetup command:
$ sudo systemsetup -gettimezone
Time Zone: US/Eastern
$ sudo systemsetup -listtimezones
<snipped>
$ sudo systemsetup -settimezone US/Central
Set TimeZone: US/Central
$ sudo systemsetup -gettimezone
Time Zone: US/Central
This command is available both …
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I recently needed to archive a bunch of old home directories on a CIFS share mounted on my Windows XP virtual machine. I wanted each home directory to be archived independently so that I would have lots of smaller zip files rather than one huge one. Additionally, maintaining the directory …
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Network Appliance (NetApp) advanced single-instance storage (A-SIS) deduplication is a free technology that ships with every NetApp filer. The technology works at the block level to efficiently compress volumes so that you can get more data in a limited space. All the deduplication setup and maintenance operations are controlled with …
Posted on in Information Systems
The Rural Utilities Service (RUS) released a summary of Round 1 BIP project awards yesterday via the BroadbandUSA.gov website. The document summarizes 68 projects and includes data collated from 6 press releases.
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 appropriated \$7.2 billion to “expand broadband access to …
Posted on in Software
Before version 1.8, Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook did not support automatic updating of your domain's Global Address List (GAL). Domain administrators were forced to creating a static copy of the GAL and make that available to Outlook via a change in the desktop's registry. With the latest …
Posted on in Information Systems
As I guessed a week ago, it was only a matter of time before the Rural Utilities Service (RUS) made its list of Round 2 BIP applications available online rather than in the previously released PDF format. The new online database coincides with the posting of Public Notice Filings. You …
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One of the suggestions for improving the performance of your website is to properly set the Expire and Cache-Control headers of the HTTP response for images. Since images rarely change, the Expire time should be set far in the future. This ensures that web browsers will attempt to retrieve the …
Posted on in Networking
The Cisco Broadband Wireless Gateway (BWG) is an essential piece of the IEEE
802.16e (WiMAX) architecture. As the Access Service Network (ASN) Gateway, it
provides aggregation services for the Radio Access Network (RAN). Cisco first
released it's BWG software in late 2007. Since that time, a considerable number
of …
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Although Cisco now markets these phones and ATAs via their Small Business line, I still think of these devices as being Linksys. Although the software that Cisco provides for these devices comes with an upgrade executable, it is only for Windows operating systems. I have found that the easiest way …
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a href="{tag}arra"></a>Both the Rural Utilities Service (RUS) and National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) have made American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) Round 2 application data available. The RUS is currently distributing their BIP application information in a PDF directory. The NTIA, on the other hand …
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Figuring out which version of Cisco IOS includes which version of the Cisco Broadband Wireless Gateway (BWG) can be a real pain. Hopefully the following table will help:
| Cisco IOS | Cisco BWG | Supported Hardware |
|---|---|---|
| 12.4(15)XL | 1.0 | 7301 Router, SAMI (6500, 7600) |
| 12.4(15)XL2 | 1 … |
