June, 2008

5 Sample BGP Configurations

Cisco's documentation is some of the best for any IT product. With the fast pace that IT keeps for change and the complexity of the products that they make a hand has to be given to their technical writing department. To that end here is a link to five sample BGP configurations that anyone using...

File Storage for the Mobile User

Wouldn't it be nice if you could get to your files whether you were at home or work or while traveling.While we are at it wouldn't it be nice if those files could be easily published to the Internet. And wouldn't it be nice if those files were backed up and had multiple versions that you could...

How to determine if you can run Vista

Windows Vista has been on the market for over a year now. Although the market share is reported to small it is undoubtedly going to grow. Many people have bad experiences with Vista's hardware and driver compatibility not to mention not being able to run your favorite video games. In order to...

10 Dynamic DNS Services

If you have an Internet Service Provider that isn't providing you with a static IP address for some reason then it can be a really hassle to continually find out your IP address. There are a variety of reasons why you might want to connect to your home or work place such as:

- Retriving files...

MS HyperV versus VMWare ESX

Microsoft's HyperVisor software is new to the market. While it always takes time for a new product to have the bugs worked out it seems that Microsoft's offering the visualization market is making waves even at this early stage. VMWare is surely aware of this and is going to working on proving that...

FireFox 3 Released

The newest shiniest version of FireFox has been unleashed on the world. The improvements to this new version of FireFox are supposed to be vast and for the most part they significant in most way. However, the average user likely wont notice most of them. Official FireFox...

Exchangeless Coorporate Contacts

Life would be great if everyone used the same centralized mail server. While Exchange is an option for most it is not an option for all. Here is a great post by someone who has a few alternatives if Microsoft or Exchange aren't your thing.

OpenSource Virtualization on Linux

VirtualBox is one of the best virtualization products that I have seen for a desktop user. It runs well and it makes life easier if you need to run applications on a PC but use Linux as your primary OS.

Sample HP Procurve Configuration

So everyone probably knows how to setup a switch. You plug them in and away they go right. Wellll, that is mostly true. While they will work if you use them that way you won't really get the value out of a higher-end switch if you do do that. In this post I run through the basics of configuring...

Windows 7 Preview Interview

Interesting interview of Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer. While it is not the original video there are some good parts if you have the time to read it. http://d6.allthingsd.com/20080527/gates_ballmer/