Netdisco maintains interface status for Cisco based devices. Netdisco is a Sourceforge hosted project with a main project page at http://www.netdisco.org/. The download link is somewhat out of date. The instructions contained herein pertain to obtaining the most recent version via version control.
Continue reading "Netdisco Installation and Configuration" »Tuesday, November 14. 2006
Netdisco Installation and Configuration
Check SMTP (email server)
Sometimes you want to check to see if you have access to an email server directly. A check like this may be necessary on some DSL networks where the ISP will block port 25, which is the standard port that email servers listen in on, due to issues with SPAM and rogue servers. Continue reading "Check SMTP (email server)" »
Monday, November 13. 2006
Archiving with Tar
To tar and compress a directory: Continue reading "Archiving with Tar" »
Basics for Creating a Cisco Network Monitoring Server
This monitoring server is based upon a basic Debian 2.6 Etch 2 installation. Use the Debian Base Build document to create the base server.
Continue reading "Basics for Creating a Cisco Network Monitoring..." »Debian Usage Notes
These are various common commands I've pulled together as useful in day to day Debian server management.
Continue reading "Debian Usage Notes" »Debian Etch 2 Base Build
This build process creates a basic VMWare session with Debian Etch 2 Network Boot CD. Familiarity with VMWare is assumed. A similar configuration can be used when installing on physical hardware.
Continue reading "Debian Etch 2 Base Build" »Saturday, November 11. 2006
CSS Resources
Free Development Tools
thefreecountry.com has a bunch of free development tools. It is quite extensive, covering programming, webmaster, and security resources.
favicon.ico
thesitewizard.com has a description of what to do with the favicon.ico and where to put it. It seems there is some sort of link problem with the link ref as it is not showing in my browser. More research is needed. Continue reading "favicon.ico" »
Apache Rewrite
After taking a look at Google's Webmaster Tools over a few days, I have come to the conclusion that Google doesn't crawl cgi-bin type things. So David Wheeler's rewrite page that I had come across a while back finally makes sense. The page url's need to be modifed to turn things into a seemingly standard directory structure. Continue reading "Apache Rewrite" »
Turing Test for Comment Submissions
People have designed various ways to prevent bots from successfully submitting web forms. Perhaps the most common method is by using CAPTCHAs: common ones being those funny images with characters hidden in a disconcerting background. CAPTCHA is an acronym for 'Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart'. Continue reading "Turing Test for Comment Submissions" »
Career Planning
In talking to a friend today, they were considering a career change. I remember way back when, I was doing career changing, ie, finding myself. I think there were two books that helped me the most. Both are by Richard Nelson Bolles: 'What Color is Your Parachute' and 'Three Boxes of Life'. The first one is re-written yearly. The second is a bit harder to come by. Both helped me figure out where I was, where I wanted to go, and helped plan how to get there. I recommend them both.
Continue reading "Career Planning" »Thursday, November 9. 2006
Fast Trading Simulation Engine
Are you running complicated trading scenarios incorporating equity and option mixtures from a quote/depth data stream? Are you using Genetic Programming tuned Fuzzy Logic algorithms? Are your sims taking a while? I think you may get a boost soon, if not real soon.
Intel is about to release their new quad processor, known as the QX6700. It is a dual die Conroe Dual Core CPU. Continue reading "Fast Trading Simulation Engine" »
Traders Expo 2006
I had made other travel plans before realizing that Traders Expo is on this month at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas from November 16 to 19, 2006. It looks like it might be a worthwhile event as recognizable names like Options Trader Larry McMillan and Tom Sosnoff of ThinkorSwim are going to be there. Continue reading "Traders Expo 2006" »
Wednesday, November 8. 2006
Over Abundance of Vehicles in Bermuda
According to Bermuda Online, Bermuda has almost 21 square miles of land-mass and as of 2005, 3301 permanent residents per square mile. And that figure, by it's very definition, excludes Expats living on the island. I think another 10% or 20% could be added on as a rough figure. Continue reading "Over Abundance of Vehicles in Bermuda" »