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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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Google Android HTC Desire Phone

I'm posting this from an Android based phone. Very featureful. A little difficult for my big fingers to type with, but I'm getting better with practice. Battery life is about a day if you use the apps on the phone and keep the phone screen running. Overall I love...

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