To anticipate and prevent
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth —Sherlock Holmes This stands particularly true with networking. I had an issue with our home network tonight and a rogue machine. I eliminated every option (including a stranger on our open AP) — with no avail. The rogue machine — the…
Some stupid #$$# over at Cnet decided to write a wonderfuly brilliant piece about the Two-seater plane brings gov to halt . He says If a Cessna 150 hit a large government building, the impact damage would be localized. People who weren’t near the impact site might not even notice. And he’s right. He goes…
First, before anyone says anything — Yes I use webmin on my “personal” servers (read: servers at home). It saves me time and I Dont have to remember all the proper syntax for stupid config files. Second — This module is very very very bad. I turned it on for a few hours today to…
Let me mention this one disclaimer. I’ve been a red hat fan for a long time. I’ve bought (yes paid money for linux) every version of Red Hat since 6.0 till then stopped their “desktop” product. I remeber some long drawn out battles regarding RPM’s and dependencies. But that was then, this is now. Technology…
First Cnet writes this ever so dumb article about Coffee Or Password — which would you choose? Well if you offered me $3 to give up my password, I’d do it. In a heartbeat. Free 3$ for me, and nothing for you. Why? Because of course I wouldn’t give them my real username or password…
So here’s the theory. You have a main office with a master asterisk server (Its on a Static IP). You want to add VoIP connection to a small remote office on DSL (Dynamic IP). I wanted to test this out for a while, I finally got the chance. In the extended contents I’ll run down…