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One of the task for every administrator is to make sure that the users don't get onto any site that could prove potential harm to the internal network; So all the time, people use the 'hosts' file heavily to protect by blackholing the connection for unwanted connections; yeah if I put ... Continue Reading

Well, it is going to be my first 'drive 'n go' home in India. I feel it is exciting for the fact that *I don't know* the route. Its been only 6 months now that I've been driving in India and was kinda scary when I started driving here but now ... Continue Reading

One of the good features of Juniper Firewalls is the fact that you can have Last-Known-Good configuration in the firewall. To save a working configuration, do this; save config to last-known-good Now the advantage of this is, when you've made some modifications and if it messes up the config, all you need is; exec ... Continue Reading

If you ever need help on setting up Remote Desktop Web Connection, Microsoft has a great tutorial about it. { Click Here } ... Continue Reading

So I'm familiar with 2 giants on firewall-front. One being Cisco and other Juniper and at times it can't avoided that you forget password. Hey, we'all are humans and so the err... How do you recover access to the Cisco PIX firewall ? { Click Here } Now for Juniper Firewalls, you ... Continue Reading

So the Giants are moving towards open licensing or what? Seems to me like a fight between giants make life simple for end users. Anyways, The VMWare Server is free now and you can download, Njoy your virutualization needs I guess! { Click Here } ... Continue Reading

With windows everybody knows that when you delete something, it goes into Recycle Bin and whenever you want it back, you can get it back. So basically what happens is, an entry is created in the Recycle Bin but the file remains on the disk where it was originally. So ... Continue Reading

"This page contains both secure and nonsecure items. Do you want to display the nonsecure items?" Remember seeing this? I see this when I get onto a lot of sites with mixed protection and everytime it will popup a box asking for this. A bit annoying if you know what you ... Continue Reading

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So ever wondered if you could have a tool that tells you the download/upload bandwidth usage? and that too free? You gotta be kidding me, as long as sourceforge is there; you always have a solution. So basically there is a tool called freemeter (link below), which can do the job ... Continue Reading