Networking
Home surveillance with Linux and Zoneminder made easy – Part II
My last post I gave a quick overview of my hardware (PC, camera and capture card) that I was using on my surveillance system. This post I will explain what OS and software I use. My operating system of choice for this ‘project’ was SUSE. The initial reason was that learning Linux is (in my […]
Type wrong command, disable dns lookup on Cisco router
How many times have you typed in the wrong command on a Cisco router, and then have to wait while the DNS lookup times out because the route is trying to resolve that ‘domain’? Yeah me too. Easy to fix … Simply enter global configuration mode and type router(config)# no ip domain-lookup And the result […]
KVM physical space problem?
Here’s a brilliant way to save all the room that a KVM switch and related cables take up. KVM (Keyboard-Video-Mouse) switches are used when you have (for example) 2 PCs and only 1 keyboard, Monitor and Mouse. They allow you to share the use of them by simple hitting a button on the KVM switch […]
Eye-Fi Wireless Memory Card
What’s that I hear you say? A memory card that has wireless built in? Sure does. The Eye-Fi memory card adds wireless support to digital cameras that don’t already have it. Perfect to get rid of those pesky cable that clutter up desks. It supports automatic wireless uploading to your computer as well as social/blogging […]
Router Sim Using Real Cisco IOS Images
There’s nothing better than a router sim that has the full Cisco command set available to utilise. All of the router sims (up to now) have a stripped down collection of commands to use. I stumbled on this website a few weeks ago. It’s an open source product that runs on Windows and Linux boxes, […]