Sean’s Obsessions

IOS Command Scheduler
Cool!
The Command Scheduler feature provides the ability to schedule some EXEC command-line interface (CLI) commands to run at specific times or at specified intervals.
Restrictions for Command Scheduler
The EXEC CLI specified in a Command Scheduler policy list must not generate a prompt or have the ability to be terminated using keystrokes. Command Scheduler […]

I’m not sure why a lot of people are jumping on the bandwagon about the word “scalable”. I read another article the other day that said it simply means “it can grow”. This is far from the truth.
Scalable has a well understood meaning. Something that is scalable means that its architecture allows […]

Google has announced they’ll respect “rel=nofollow” in links, meaning that they won’t follow them or assign PR to any link with this tag. I’ve added the nofollow plugin to Movable type, hopefully it works!
This will hopefully curb comment spam, since the primary goal is to get backlinks. I’m sure they’ll continue, but you […]

Many are referring to the ZDNet article entitled “Google Wants Dark Fibre” as a sign that the big G is going to compete with the telcos. I’m going to take the contrarian opinion and say this is probably nothing.
First, to those of you who don’t know, you buy your data fibre services either lit […]

I’m usually pretty careful when using IE, but I don’t know what happened this time. My home page was changed to “Home Search”, and links were starting to be changed around on me. My Trend Antivirus started chirping like mad.
Even Spybot couldn’t get rid of this one. I finally found these instructions […]

I’ve been using AMANDA to back up my systems for ages. After accidentally blowing away a file today, I had to recover. However, for some reason, amrecover told me that I didn’t have an index for that volume, meaning that it had no way of knowing what tape the file would be on.
Checking […]

I’ve recently added a bunch of new sites to my RSS reader, some of which I think are worth sharing.
SANS Internet Storm Center - Every day there is a diary entry about the analysis going on, ie what trends in attacks are being seen.
Ask Dave Taylor - Well known author answers a question or two […]