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CCDE Design Track Certification

An interview with Russ White, CCIE No. 2635, a member of the Routing Protocol Design and Architecture Team at Cisco Systems. In this interview he presents valuable insights into CCDE Design Track Certification. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xlmf0wgkbVk

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IPSec Explained

I have been going through YouYube and found this great video about IPSec… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DH1zI8QYi4A

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Adding Nameservers on Sun Solaris

This is how to add a DNS Server to Solaris Box… First of all, Open up your favourite text editor and add the name servers into /etc/resolv.conf nameserver 192.168.1.1 If you need to add more, just add another one in the next line… Following the instructions below will walk you through the process… bash-3.00# ping www.google.com ping: unknown host www.google.com bash-3.00# cat [...]

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How to add IP Address / Default Gateway on Sun Solaris

Adding IP address and default gateway is rather straight forward as long as the interface is loaded. To see whether the interface is loaded, issue the command ifconfig –a You should see something like the following… bash-3.00# ifconfig -a lo0: flags=2001000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4,VIRTUAL> mtu 8232 index 1 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000 rtls0: flags=1000842<BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 1500 index 2 inet 0.0.0.0 netmask 0 ether 0:6:4f:47:76:1e In this [...]

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DNS Cache Poisoning Bug

When a Name Server looks up a domain for the IP address, it stores the information into the cache so it doesn’t have to look it up every single time a request is made. For example, if someone looks for www.nishv.com the DNS server will look up the domain and stores the IP address 72.52.178.35 [...]

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Logitech MX Air Gyroscopic Cordless Mouse

I have just got myself a Logitech MX Air Gyroscopic mouse. I haven’t spent this much amount of money on computer mice for quite some time (Maximum I have spent was around £50 for my MX 700). I have been trying to find a good replacement for my Logitech MX 700, and MX 1000 was [...]

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HTC Kaiser (TyTN II) car charger problem solved!

HTC Kaiser has an issue when it comes to charging using the in-car charger using the cigarette lighter. It displays as the device is being charged but it doesn’t actually charge the device. The root cause of the problem is the wiring of the mini-usb port on the Kaiser itself and HTC decided to swap it [...]

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Windows Defender Error Application failed to initialize: 0×800106ba.

This is a common error generated by Windows Defender when the Windows Defender Service cannot be started. The fix is rather straight forward… Go to Start -> Run Type in services.msc Make sure Windows Defender Services is running, if it is not, manually start it. If that doesn’t fix the problem, download and install Windows Defender from Microsoft. If [...]

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Disable Windows Defender

Windows Defender can be easily disabled and here is how it’s done… It is NOT recommended to be disabled and I hope you know what you’re doing. Here is how it’s done… Go to Start -> Control Panel and click on Security Centre or go to Start -> Run and type in wscui.cpl and It will bring [...]

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Live Messenger Blocks YouTube URLs

Looks like Microsoft has decided to bounce all the YouTube URLs sent via Live Messenger. It is rather pathetic to see such measure been taken in direct competition with Google. Microsoft has its own version of Video sharing site called MSN Video and I guess it’s their way of competing against YouTube just because Microsoft has [...]

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