Sometimes you just have to push through the mountain of problems. Another Subcon requested for a joint testing and commissioning session. They have arranged for the appropriate people to be present for this 1 am activity. I turned up, but…
How to use Outlook better!
This is a collection of tricks that I have found to use Outlook better
Failover your cluster regularly
Once upon a time, on my first day of work, the Exchange cluster died. A two-node Exchange server for some 2000 mailboxes just keeled over and died.
Testing E1 links with BERT
Testing E1 links with BERT, instead of installing a loopback and furiously refreshing to check on the counters.
Going to the cloud
I was using an Excel spreadsheet to track my projects. Sometimes I forget to save and my changes are lost. Or the file got corrupted because I did not close Excel properly. Then I will get version problems. The most…
Sometimes you end up referencing yourself
I was trying to configure the Cisco LMS Topology Services to use SSH. I quick search on Topology Services and SSH returns “campusmgr” Drilling down returns a link on how to do this. Written by yours truly. I have read…
Microsoft Word tips
Here are some Microsoft Word tips that I found to be useful
Notable security vulnerabilities for 2018
In continuation of the 2017 post on vulnerabilities, the new year started with a big security bang.
2017 in review
2017 was a horrible year for me. The year opened with a bang when somebody’s car rear-ended me on the last few days of 2016. 9 months later, another driver repeated the same feat. Luckily, no one was injured.
Notable Security Vulnerabilities for 2017
2017 has been an exciting time for discovering security vulnerabilities. There are some that hold your companies assets to ransom. Others can be career ending. So I thought to compile a list to keep track. Remember there is still 2…