Articles

Here are some things I've written. They are not guaranteed to be inoffensive:

  • On Web Archives and White Houses - Governmental users of "robots.txt"
  • The Spousal Indiscretion Grep List - List of keywords to search for to find illicit love letters on a hard drive.
  • The Ten Three Commandments - A comparison of the Ten Commandments to the Constitution of the United States.
  • Chinese Foreign Policy? - Many Bothans died to get you this information.
  • Router vs Comcast - Steps to get a Linksys router to work with Comcast
  • Need a shell? - Downloadable command shells if you find yourself in a pinch.
  • The Sacred Rules of Network Troubleshooting - Rules for network admins to live by.
  • An informal comparison I wrote of the Sonicwall Pro firewall vs the Cisco Pix.
  • Character Frequency in Dogpile Searches - Apparently nobody uses the shift key anymore.
  • Howto: Disable those irritating audio ads in AOL Instant Messenger. - I normally try to be understanding when it comes to advertising, but playing music without being asked is rude.
  • Howto: Disable Flash Shared Objects (FSOs) with a batch file. - Run once to disable, run a second time to re-enable, etc.
  • Howto: Build a Serial cable with a built in switch to swap between Straight-through and null-modem behavior. - For lazy network administrators.
  • Cisco ASA vs Comcast SMC8014 - Steps to get a SMC8014 cable modem to connect to a Cisco ASA without it freaking out and crashing mysteriously.

    • Example device configurations:

  • upstream DHCP setup for Cisco Pix 506E - base config for connecting a Pix 506E to a DHCP provider (e.g. dsl, cable modem)
  • limited account configuration for Cisco Pix - snippet for creating a limited user inside of the Cisco Pix that has read only access to the diagnostic features.
  • Pix PPTP VPN Setup - Setup a basic VPN connection via PPTP between a Cisco Pix and Windows XP without using any external servers.
  • ASA active FTP example - Allow active FTP traffic through a Cisco ASA via policy-map etc



    • Other

    Here are some other things. I can't claim all of them as my own.

  • Unofficial Win32 binary build of the net-snmp tools - These are distributed as source-only for win32. I didn't write them, but I have compiled them.

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