In a weird case of “who designed this packaging”, it looks like Cisco is against the world. Or at least they agree with the government and immigrations, and against Taiwan.

This is a small image from one of the packages in our Pix box.

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So we got approved on the PIX yesterday, and it was ordered. We also have just been sent the new IP addresses we’re getting with our new connection. 62 shinny new IPv4 addresses winging their way to my office care of a 10mbps fiber connection (upgradable to 1gbps).

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In a sane environment, you set limits on the sizes of attachments you can both send, and receive. However I’m not in a sane environment. The corporate types complain when they cannot do what they want, and being just a meer Network Admin I have to follow their orders albeit with reluctance, and [...]

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Art Wittmann over at Network Computing (a publication by CMP) wrote an article this week on “The fall of The IT Control Freak“. It basically goes on to mention the general trend that in most setups, the control of the IT team is slowly slipping. The reason is simple; the advance of technology. [...]

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Sunday afternoon, we received a call from building security reporting that they’ve had a power outage lasting 1.5 hours, and power has now been restored. This means hell for me. 1.5hours is quite a long time. Our UPSes are able to sustain the servers for approximately 30 minutes, and longer if we [...]

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Blah… that’s kinda how I feel at the moment. Not sure why. I’m unmotivated at work, and I get this feeling my productivity is slipping. I’m finding myself snipping a little more at people I work with because of stupid mistakes they make. Usually I’d joke about it, but this is [...]

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Yesterday Adobe officially announced that they will be distributing Google Toolbar. In the press release, Omid Kordestani of Adobe mentions:

Adobe customers are some of the most savvy, enthusiastic consumers of Web content, and we think they’ll love the fact that Google Toolbar will let them take the power of Google search with them anywhere [...]

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Okay, odd… I’ve just realized I’ve been on the SquirrelMail project now since about 2002, and in the 4 years I’ve been on the project, I don’t believe I’ve written a single plugin. Most unusual, however today I remedied that with a request in #squirrelmail for a new version of ip_user. I quickly [...]

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So I admit, I’m all for torturing the hell out of people that sexually assult children, but what parent would let their 14 year old daughter go to meet somebody they met online without being with them? Seriously? Any takers? No, didn’t think so… At least not the sane. But apparently somebody [...]

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After months and months of complaining about the state of the hardware in our servers, they’ve finally got around to approving new servers (bit by bit). One of the first servers I wanted to upgrade was our domain controllers. One of them has a BIOS issue that HP won’t fix (but acknowledge exists) [...]

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