XPQuickFix – Swiss Army Knife for Windows
Published By rsivanandan On Wednesday, September 30th 2009. Under Tech in general, Tools For Life, Windows
Quite often when you’re infected with a Virus, the virus does diligently :-( disable a lot of functions in Windows (Like disable the task manager, Disable registry editor etc). So either you’re stuck at different Google searches in search for fixes to these individual problems or you ... Continue Reading
Juniper SSG 140 vs Fortinet FG – 224B Comparison
Published By rsivanandan On Wednesday, September 30th 2009. Under Juniper
There is a good comparison chart available between these 2 firewalls { Click Here to get it } Though it is a comparison with FG – 224B, you can pretty much see the plus points that comes with Juniper SSG series of Firewalls. ... Continue Reading
Policy NAT with Cisco ASA Firewalls
Published By rsivanandan On Friday, September 25th 2009. Under Cisco Tags: Policy Nat with Cisco ASA
One of the most common things in every ASA/PIX firewalls is the nat configuration for outgoing connections; something like this; hostname(config)# nat(inside) 1 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 hostname(config)# global (outside) 1 interface This tells the firewall that all traffic ... Continue Reading
Speed Up Adobe Acrobat Reader
I had moved to Foxit reader from Adobe Reader for the sole reason that I can have a cup of coffee by the time adobe loads the document, not to mention when we’re browsing a PDF document through Internet. Then I came upon this little tool while ... Continue Reading
Cisco Router DNS lookup Annoyance
If you don’t know especially if you’re a newbie with Cisco Routers, one of the annoying thing is the message; Translating..... domain server (255.255.255.255) ... Continue Reading
MTU Settings Test (Set Optimal MTU)
Published By rsivanandan On Friday, September 18th 2009. Under Tools For Life Tags: MTU Optimization, MTU Settings, MTU Test
One of the things in TCP/IP communications is inefficient communication/problems caused by packet fragmentation due to MTU settings along with the PATH. There is one known problem which almost everyone hits especially over IPSEC (Outlook & Exchange) on which I had blogged previously on how to find the ... Continue Reading
Monitor Server or Service (Check Host Alive)
Published By rsivanandan On Thursday, September 17th 2009. Under Tech in general, Tools For Life Tags: Check Host Alive
One of the things every network admin would like to do is to monitor his key application servers/machines' up status. If it is down, the last thing he wants is to have the users come to him and complain! Say I own a web server and I want to ... Continue Reading
Juniper Security Rocks!
2009 Information Security/SearchSecurity.com Readers' Choice awards are announced and guess what; Juniper Won the best security solution awards in the following categories; Intrusion Prevention: Gold Award : Juniper IDP Series NAC : Gold Award : Juniper Networks Unified Access Control ... Continue Reading
Network Congestion
Published By rsivanandan On Wednesday, September 16th 2009. Under Tech in general Tags: Network Congestion
After quite some time, I’ve been active @ Experts-Exchange and one of the questions that popped up was this; have some concerns regarding network congestion. Is there a formula out there for determining the necessary network capacity for X number of clients? ... Continue Reading
Browsing & Television
Lifehacker.com reports that a good 57% of netizens browse while the TV is on. This news caught me the moment I read it, nothing to guess here. One of the complaints I daily hear is that I’m browsing/working on my laptop and the TV is running. Do I ... Continue Reading

