This is pretty funny:

http://themovieblog.com/2009/12/if-star-wars-had-facebook

Crash and burn on my first take of the BSCI exam, stupid ISIS routing protocol killed me. I just didn’t understand enough of it and it seemed all of the questions pertained to that or how it redistributed into OSPF another of my not strong points. Back to the books and back to studying and I will try again next year.

Really what good does this do? Why are we trying to cause ourselves and other people pain, what is the benefit of this? This article from fake Steve Jobs:

http://consumerist.com/2009/12/fake-steve-jobs-go-protest-at-an-att-store-today.html

I just don’t understand the reasoning behind this. Yes there are a lot of iphones, yes we use a lot of data, yes we like our devices. May be Verizon is better may be not, but they also don’t have the iphone. People need to stop complaining and be happy with what they have and stop trying to make people’s lives miserable.

So I have to slip the lic on our iseries to handle the new 5904 SAS Raid cards that we got. Would have been nice if IBM hadn’t screwed up their configurator and it would told me I would need to be at v5r4m5 before I purchased the disk upgrade. The nice side is when this is done I will have added 3TB of disk to the machine, the bad side is a lot of downtime in saves card swaps and of course slipping the lic. Also to go along with slipping the lic I have reinstall PTFs and go through all of that pain. Some days IBM doesn’t make it easy to do business with them.

These modems are a pain and the documentation isn’t very good. However this information was problematic to find, but now that I have it I don’t want to lose it and I want to make use of it for future needs:

You need to connect the modem to your machine and then use some client to connect and type in modem commands.

So login in and change the user profile to zero with:

ATZ0

This also has the advantage of changing the auto answer to 1

Then go into the Cisco router and change the speed on CON 0 port to 2400 with the following

line con 0
speed 2400

This worked well on the devices that I tested with.

I virtualized my domain controllers and ran across this error:

The File Replication Service has detected that the replica root path has changed from “c:\windows\sysvol\domain” to “c:\windows\sysvol\domain”. If this is an intentional move then a file with the name NTFRS_CMD_FILE_MOVE_ROOT needs to be created under the new root path.
This was detected for the following replica set:
“DOMAIN SYSTEM VOLUME (SYSVOL SHARE)”

A pretty random error and really not very informitive. What it is telling you is that the s/n of the drive has changed as far as the OS is concerned and NTFRS is not happy with it. Here is what I did to resolve the problem based on what I found on the Microsoft site:

1. Create a blank file named NTFRS_CMD_FILE_MOVE_ROOT
2. open a dos prompt and run “net stop NTFRS”
3. once complete run “net start NTFRS”
4. Wait 15 minutes and the problem resolves itself

Tried to install new 5908 controllers in the i this weekend. Didn’t quite go so well turns out you need v5r4m5 of the lic to make it work. Would have been nice had the configurator not let us do it at 5.4. Oh well something learned for the next upgrade.

This is cobbled together from a couple of different places. I used my Ubuntu install to do this as I didn’t want to use Windows and I am not allowed to use my Mac at my work.

install net-snmp on Ubuntu with “sudo apt-get install net-snmp”
Once that is installed using this site to find the relevant snmp OID’s was pretty easy:

http://tools.cisco.com/Support/SNMP/do/BrowseOID.do?local=en&substep=2&translate=Translate&tree=NO

Here are the two for S/N and Model#:

mib-2.47.1.1.1.1.11.1 – Cisco Serial #
mib-2.47.1.1.1.1.13.1 – Cisco Model#

Put into a command:

snmpget -v1 -c (community string) (ip address) (OID)

Then I just output this into a file and had everything from my network.

In the process of trying to institute a 200MB email quota for all of my users. We will have to see how well this is going to go over, I have a feeling having done this in the past that it may be as painful as I remember. Then again to go along with it I am also going to stop backing up the email for longer than 2 weeks. This should help in the event that email needs to be recoverable vs. it being discoverable. I always hate leaving email lying around because some auditor is always going to want to pull up email for several months ago. The easier I can make the life the better, especially when it comes to email restores.

Connecting to the darn netshares. This person seems to have found an answer to the problem:

http://www.shield.on.ca/Blog/?p=728

Hope this helps someone out there.