Archive for March, 2006

How to Spot a counterfeit T-1 Wan Interface Card

Wednesday, March 29th, 2006

If you’re thinking to buy a T-1 Wan Interface Card (Part # WIC-1DSU-T1-V2), please make sure that you’re buying the genuine one. How to spot out the difference? Check out this link.

Installing Minicom to connect to Cisco router using console cable.

Monday, March 27th, 2006

I bought this Connectland usb/serial connector to configure my Cisco routers. Since now I’m using Ubuntu, this Linux just picks up the connector.

[4309733.840000] usb 2-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 5
[4309733.936000] pl2303 2-2:1.0: PL-2303 converter detected
[4309733.940000] usb 2-2: PL-2303 converter now attached to ttyUSB0

Then I installed minicom.

$ sudo apt-get install minicom

Run [...]

Installing and setting TFTPD in Ubuntu

Monday, March 27th, 2006

1. Install tftpd and related packages.

$ sudo apt-get install xinetd tftpd tftp

2. Create /etc/xinetd.d/tftp and put this entry:

service tftp
{
protocol = udp
port = 69
socket_type = dgram
wait [...]

(Stupid) City Manager vs. Computer Engineer

Sunday, March 26th, 2006

Fate can sometimes lead someone who has inexorable stupidity to have big responsibilities. For those who has been working as an engineer, most of you, I believe, had come across to find somebody that inevitably stupid and be one of your supervisor.
CentOS engineers had several times trying to explain to this person the root of [...]

Reporting a Bug to Microsoft(tm) and get charged 35 USD

Thursday, March 23rd, 2006

I wrote an article about Fernando Gont, a person who had problem submitting a bug to Microsoft (and several other vendors). Actually he did manage to file the bug and I was not sure whether Microsoft(tm) charged him or not (probably not). However, this person got charged 35 USD for filing a bug on Outlook(tm) [...]

Google acquires Upstartle: Where do you want to go next?

Saturday, March 11th, 2006

Watching what’s Google doing is always exciting. From the job ads with mathematic puzzle, Google Maps, Gmail, Google Base, Blogspot, Google Calendar, and now Google is up to compete with Microsoft office, but this one will be available on-line from the net, on your browser.