James McDonald

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jQuery — It begins

So most day's I'm an infrastructure and apps guy. Which means a bit of: Cisco Windows ERP And a heap of general IT So then comes a long a project which requires coding... And because my ERP spits out and receives XML and Internet browsers are very friendly with the...

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Cisco 877 Continual Reload

I used Cisco's SDM to configure the stateful firewall component on a Cisco 877 but I let it add all the automatic Instant Messenger rules. That's when things started going wrong. The Cisco crashed and reloaded... probably 10 times a day. Deleting the IM stateful...

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Cisco Network Topology Icons

If you use Dia or another open source diagramming package you may need some network infrastructure icons. Cisco publishes some here http://www.cisco.com/web/about/ac50/ac47/2.html Note: Dia already includes most of these which were converted several years ago when the...

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Remember the Name

This post is another one of my memory jogger posts. After posting this I stumbled upon, in the original sense, not the http://www.stumbleupon.com/ sense. A link to http://www.site5.com/hosting/ which seems to have a better approach to hosting than some other hosting...

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It’s not You! It’s Me!

This is a handy site if you want to check if a web site you can't access is unavailable to just you or to everyone else as well. Just append the URL to the end of http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ e.g. http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/en.wikipedia.org

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Renovations

A blog post from the Android Phone. We are nearing completion. Just have to install Stainless Steel Wire Balustrading from All Things Stainless (incidentally they use Joomla and VirtueMart so nice to see a bit of open source being used in a nuts and bolts style of...

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