Mr N

I hadn't used my Cisco ASDM 5.2 for ASA for a while and when I needed to add a couple of extra users to the VPN it didn't work. Everything seemed to load in ok but when I tried to submit my login credentials it hung. I loaded the Java console and got t… more »

I always need to remember the special HTML entity codes for characters. Many blogging applications re-render the characters to make them more readable but when you want to cut and paste the text it's all wrong. The best example of this is double quotes.… more »

From time to time I need to allow one user to log into another machine without being prompted for a password. This is extremely useful for anything that is automated for example doing the nightly backup which copies files across the network or running c… more »

Before updating a system file I'll take a backup copy of it. The less imaginative of you will choose a backup name like file.bak or file2. Some of you will use your initials, especially if you work in an environment where you might run into your colleag… more »

It's all very well to talk to these CORBA objects floating around the network but how do you get your first one; how do you get into the system? The Quantel Broadcast System uses an Interoperable Object Reference (IOR) in a well known location. The IOR… more »