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Digital Picture Fames

admin — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 02:11:15 +0000

I’m sure most of us have gone through this train wreck before, but I couldn’t seem to find any buying guides or reviews more recent than March.

Last week we bought the InTouch from Giant digital picture frame. It was only 7″, but it had a touch screen that I was adamant for. Amazon had really good reviews on it and it seemed to be a top seller. The device arrived and ran VERY sluggish. Apparently that’s the way it’s supposed to run (Windows CE). It has a ton of features, but poor execution.

The biggest headache of the product was using the FrameChannel. Documentation was awful, customer support was non-existent (opened a case last Monday, still haven’t heard back), and it is poorly documented.

This evening we bought the HP DreamScreen from Best Buy and we are pretty pleased thus far. It uses the Snapfish service which is rock solid and fast. It has a remote to make simple tasks and setup much easier and the screen is a million times better than the InTouch one.

Training is Complete

admin — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:55:06 +0000

Finished CIPT training today and now it’s time to build my lab. I have had a VMWare environment running for a while, and now it’s time to start putting it to use.

Hopefully I will be able to have CUCM, Unity and ties to Exchange.

I just need some phones now. Any leads?

Training

admin — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:54:54 +0000

In training this week on how to administer CallManager 6/7. Pretty decent so far.

Here are some of the links and posts that appear to be pretty damn handy:

http://www.globalknowledge.com/training/whitepaperlist.asp?pageid=502&wpcat=206&country=United+States

http://ephoneplanet.com/

Global Knowledge UC Blog

Networker’s 2007

admin — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 12:26:41 +0000

We just got back from Networker’s 2007. Had some fun, it was nice to get away from the day to day stuff and catch up with the guys.

Album is here.

Cisco to AD auth

admin — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 03:30:19 +0000

Here’s yet another article from Scott. This one is regarding authentication of IOS 12.2 to Active Directory. This is definitely a much cheaper route to go, than Cisco’s ACS server or other methods.

Article Here.

VMWare + Teaming + VLAN’s

admin — Sat, 26 May 2007 01:07:02 +0000

Scott is probably one of the smartest people I know and has published a great article on his blog about how to get ESX Server and a Cisco 3560 to play nicely and optimally. blog.scottlowe.org

PIX SSH Key Initialize

admin — Thu, 03 May 2007 14:00:11 +0000

ca zeroize rsa ca gen rsa key 512 show ca mypubkey rsa ca save all ssh 0 0 outside ssh timeout 60

Config change logging

admin — Thu, 03 May 2007 03:33:17 +0000

Here’s some handy commands to log changes to your switches and routers via the local log and syslog:

archive log config logging enable logging size 200 hidekeys notify syslog

To view it back:
show archive log config provisioning– this actually parses the command into a config that can be copied and pasted in.

Cisco Basic Commands

admin — Thu, 03 May 2007 03:20:40 +0000

Here’s some basic commands that every Cisco Engineer should know. However, they are so basic, that they are often overlooked:

Disable DNS Lookup
no ip domain-lookup
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Disable Switches/ Routers from being rude
line con 0 logging synchronous
If you are in the middle of typing something, the device will echo your command back to you once it’s done spitting it’s garbage out.
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setting console speed
line con 0 speed 115200
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command replacements:
wr---copy run start wr erase---erase start who---show users where---show sessions
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Timestamping your logs
service timestamps log datetime localtime
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setting the clock
clock set 1:59:00 2 May 2007 clock timezone EST -5 clock summer-time EDT recurring
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Erasing interface config info
default int gig0/1
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fast debug recovery
u all
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Editing access-lists
Make sure that you are using an extended access list for this one
Router(config)#ip access-list extended TEST Router(config-ext-nacl)#10 permit ip host 10.1.1.1 host 10.6.5.4 Router(config-ext-nacl)#20 permit icmp any any Router(config-ext-nacl)#30 permit tcp any host 10.1.1.1 Router(config-std-nacl)#15 permit ip 10.5.5.0 0.0.0.255 any Router#show access-list TEST

10 permit ip host 10.1.1.1 host 10.6.5.4
15 permit ip 10.5.5.0 0.0.0.255 any
20 permit icmp any any
30 permit tcp any host 10.1.1.1

Cisco’s VOIP Implementation

admin — Thu, 03 May 2007 03:07:35 +0000

Here’s a link to a pretty daunting PDF that Cisco put out about their own IPT implementation. Reader beware, this is definately not for the faint of heart.

http://www.cisco.com/web/about/ciscoitatwork/downloads/ciscoitatwork/pdf/cisco_ip_telephony.pdf