August 17, 2010

Community News

Hello and Welcome to the Community Link Feed. Anyone can submit links with a short description which will then appear in this page and also in the sidebar.

Links must be approved before appearing, and it will be filtered by me.

So, if you know any interesting or useful sites, we encourage you to share them with us. Please use the form in the bottom of this page to submit your links.

  • Great Photo Tutorials

    This free digital photography tutorial site will show you how to take better photographs.

    Each photo tutorial will help you turn your ’snaps’ into a picture that will delight your viewers rather than bore the pants off them.

    Most of the content of these tutorials applies equally to either digital or film photography.

    September 12, 2010

  • Password Recovery Procedure for the Cisco 3700 Series Routers

    This document describes how to recover the enable password and the enable secret passwords. These passwords protect access to privileged EXEC and configuration modes. The enable password password can be recovered, but the enable secret password is encrypted and must be replaced with a new password. Use the procedure described in this document in order to replace the enable secret password.

    September 3, 2010

  • Registry Edits for Windows XP

    To use the Regedits: Save the REG File to your hard disk. Double click it and answer yes to the import prompt. REG files can be viewed in Notepad by right clicking on the file and selecting Edit.

    To use the VBS Files: Download .vbs file and save it to your hard drive (you may want to right click and use Save Target As). Double
    click the vbs file. You will be prompted when the script is done.

    NOTE: If your anti-virus software warns you of a ”malicious” script, this is normal if you have ”Script Safe” or similar technology enabled. These scripts are not malicious, but they do make changes to the System Registry.

    Disclaimer: These registry edits and script files are presented ”as is”. Every effort has been made to ensure the files work as stated. I assume no responsibility for your use of these files.

    August 31, 2010

  • CIDR Cheat Sheet

    For those of you needing quick access to a CIDR/Dotted-decimal cheat sheet, we are providing you with the one below. This schema provides you with the CIDR notation, starting with /3, its Dotted-decimal counterpart, and the total number of available subnets within each network block:

    August 31, 2010

  • Building a Two-Node Linux Cluster with Heartbeat

    The term ”cluster” is actually not very well defined and could mean different things to different people. According to Webopedia, cluster refers to a group of disk sectors. Most Windows users are probably familiar with lost clusters–something that can be rectified by running the defrag utility.

    August 27, 2010