New posts coming

A great deal has changed since the last time that I’ve posted!   For example, I am heavily engaged in a masters degree program in Information Systems.  I will graduate in 18 weeks.   In the coming days I plan to introduce posts on a variety of projects that I’ve been involved with over the [...]

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Limiting Broadcast, Unicast, and Multicast Traffic on a Cisco Switch

Limiting Broadcast, Unicast, and Multicast Traffic on a Cisco Switch Sometimes we must all face situations where broadcast traffic will hinder network bandwidth.  An excellent example is a low speed layer two site to site VPN link.  Here is a method to throttle broadcast traffic by setting a limiter on the physical network port. configure [...]

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Want Gnome 3? ATI Users don’t install proprietary ATI drivers

Want Gnome 3?  ATI Users don’t install proprietary ATI drivers Do you wish to run Gnome 3? If you are running Ubuntu 11.04 and have an ATI Radeon HD graphics card you may want to remove the fglrx proprietary driver.  I have an HD 2600 and have noticed the following: – One month ago:  ATI [...]

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Install GNOME 3 in Ubuntu 11.04

Install GNOME 3 in Ubuntu 11.04 IMPORTANT:  If you are upgrading from Ubuntu 10.10 to Ubuntu 11.04 Beta please perform the following prior to the install of GNOME 3. apt-get remove gnome-accessibility-themes “gnome-accessbility-themes” conflicts with the GNOME 3 themes package.  If you leave this in place you’ll get the GNOME 3 transparent interface with gnome [...]

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Unity vs GNOME 3 – Ubuntu 11.04

Unity VS GNOME 3 – Ubuntu 11.04 This blog posting is strictly my opinion of the two interfaces in Ubuntu 11.04. I tried both of these interfaces when that I upgraded to Ubuntu 11.04 Beta 2.  Unity did not stay installed very long.  This interface has matured to a stable state however the interface did [...]

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Happy 200th Episode Linux Outlaws!

Happy 200th Episode Linux Outlaws! Fab and Dan, happy 200th episode!  I’ve enjoyed every episode that you gentlemen have produced! If you’ve never checked out Linux Outlaws, please visit: http://linuxoutlaws.com This is a podcast about the latest operating system news and events.  It is centric to Linux as the name suggests.  Fab and Dan have [...]

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Clonezilla – Cloning Disk to Remote Disk

Clonezilla – Cloning Disk to Remote Disk I ran into a unique situation the other day at work.  I had used Novell Zenworks to push Microsoft Office 2007 to several client computers.  9 out of 10 of them, Microsoft Office installed successfully on.  However, the single computer that it did not work on could no [...]

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Roku XD – Amazing IPTV device

Roku XD – Amazing IPTV device Many of us have heard from various sources that Roku it the leading Netflix streaming device.  I was looking for an additional Netflix device so I could move the Nintendo Wii from the Living Room to the Den for my two young daughters.  One day while I was with [...]

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Netbuilder Article Fail – Using Firewall Builder to Configure Cisco PIX/ASA

Netbuilder Article Fail – Using Firewall Builder to Configure Cisco PIX/ASA   Isn’t it just aweful when you sit back and read an article and know that it is too good to be true.  This is one of articles that I’ve read which fits this description: http://www.howtoforge.com/using-firewall-builder-to-configure-cisco-asa-and-pix The article also featured on Netbuilder’s website is [...]

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The Giant is falling…

The Giant is falling… I was in high school when Bill Clinton’s administration rightfully attacked Microsoft.  At the time it was in violation of anti-trust laws.  This giant had grown too fast for comfort.  At the time, I was frightened.  If the United States Government split up Microsoft, what would happen to PC standards? Times [...]

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