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CCNA TV

2007-01-14T10:56:00.000-08:00

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CCNA TV: IP Addressing, Subnetting & VLSM

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DAY : THURSDAY
DATE : FEBRUARY 01, 2007
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What is an Etherchannel?

2007-01-09T14:39:00.000-08:00

SW1#conf tEnter configuration commands, one per line. End with CNTL/Z
.SW1(config)#interface fast 0/11
SW1(config-if)#channel-group 1 mode onCreating a port-channel interface Port-channel 1
SW1(config-if)#interface fast 0/12
SW1(config-if)#channel-group 1 mode on

SW2#conf tEnter configuration commands, one per line. End with CNTL/Z.
SW2(config)#int fast 0/11
SW2(config-if)#channel-group 1 mode on
SW2(config-if)#int fast 0/12
SW2(config-if)#channel-group 1 mode on

An Etherchannel is simply a logical bundling of 2 - 8 physical connections between two Cisco switches.

Binary / Decimal Converter Calculator

2007-01-09T12:45:00.000-08:00

Binary / Decimal Converter Calculator

Others links:

ASCII Codes, Bits & Bytes, Character Code Calculator, CHMOD Calculator, Common Conversions, File Types, HTTP Status Codes, Password Generator, TCP/IP, Viruses,Using Windows Calculator with Binary Numbers

Preperations

2007-01-08T13:09:00.000-08:00

Did not do much studying on the course today, just finished a chapter I allready started. Reserved two cisco Lab for the weekend. Read some encouragements on techexams.

Connected Vs Notconnected

2007-01-04T12:32:00.000-08:00

Positive Acknowledgment and Retransmission (PAR)

2006-09-20T03:38:00.000-07:00

Positive Acknowledgment and Retransmission (PAR)
A simple transport protocol might implement a reliability-and-flow-control technique where the source sends one packet, starts a timer, and waits for an acknowledgment before sending a new packet. If the acknowledgment is not received before the timer expires, the source retransmits the packet. Such a technique is called positive acknowledgment and retransmission (PAR).
By assigning each packet a sequence number, PAR enables hosts to track lost or duplicate packets caused by network delays that result in premature retransmission. The sequence numbers are sent back in the acknowledgments so that the acknowledgments can be tracked.
PAR is an inefficient use of bandwidth, however, because a host must wait for an acknowledgment before sending a new packet, and only one packet can be sent at a time.

C64

2006-06-15T17:04:00.000-07:00

C64 Animation: "It's all very well coming up with animation on today's fancy computers, but take a look at this and see what people managed back when all we had was 16 colours and 64K of memory. Great old-skool stuff."

SAMSUNG INTRODUCES THE WORLD'S FIRSTS IN MOBILE

2006-04-11T11:45:00.000-07:00

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. reinforces its technology leadership by unveiling the world's first 10 megapixel mobile phone (model: SCH-B600), and the world’s first 8GB Hard Disk embedded smartphone (model: SGH-i310) at CeBIT 2006.

“Samsung's development of the 10 megapixel camera phone, and a 8GB hard disk drive phone open a new world in telecommunication industry,” said Kitae Lee, President of Telecommunication Network Business of Samsung Electronics.

“As consumers’ needs of mobile entertainment are growing rapidly, we are continuously introducing breakthroughs in mobile phones. Our i310, 8GB HDD smart phone will be the best match for business consumers who want a colossal of business functionalities as well as rich mobile entertainment contents. Furthermore, the SCH-B600, 10 megapixel cameraphone will satisfy mobile users who are seeking higher quality photography in his or her mobile. I would like to see our technological advances contribute to the future of this industry and improve the way of our future life style.”

Enjoy Maximum storage in Mobile
Samsung breaks the storage limit in mobile phones by introducing the world’s first mobile phone equipped with a 8GB hard disk drive (model: SGH-i310). With the large storage of 8GB, SGH-i310 will change the way people manage and use the mobile phone.

Samsung is the first to adopt a hard disk drive into mobile phones and has launched three models equipped with a hard disk drive; the world’s first 1.5GB HDD embedded phone (model: SPH-V5400), the world’s first 3GB HDD embedded phone (model: SCH-V7900) and the world’s first 3GB HDD Music smartphone (model: SGH-i300).

The i310 works as a perfect platform for users by combining a phone, a digital camera, and a MP3 player with its immense storage capacity. It enables users to carry around 2,000 songs (4MB/song) wherever they go.

The i310 comes with the latest version of Windows Mobile 5.0 for Smartphone which allows users to view files and easily carry their music library with them. This will sync the playlists, songs, and videos from your PC so that your experience is identical to the user’s personal computer. It also offers USB 2.0 and Plug & Play feature which allows the phone to be utilized as a removable hard disk. Businessmen and students can easily transfer files to / from their computers, as well as store and transfer files in any format conveniently.

The i310 has all the latest features including a 2 megapixel camera with flash, microSD slot, document viewer and TV output. Users can record video with the 2 megapixel camera in high quality resolution.

It also supports enhanced music function with Bluetooth® stereo (A2DP), digital power amp and dual speakers. Uses can download music conveniently from online music store from their personal computer or directly via air.

The i310 will be introduced in Europe during the second half of this year.

Combine Mobile Entertainment with Professionalism
Samsung reached another milestone in camera phones by introducing the world’s first 10 megapixel camera phone (model:SCH-B600). Samsung launched the world’s first 5 megapixel camera phone in October 2004; the world’s first 7 megapixel camera phone in July 2005; and introduced the world’s first 8 megapixel camera phone in November 2005.

Samsung’s B600 sets itself apart from its previous megapixel cameraphones by combining the mobile TV technology with the 10 megapixel camera.

The B600 offers the same level of picture-taking sophistication that a 10 megapixel digital camera offers and mobile TV capability in Satellite standard.

The camera function includes 3x optical zoom and 5x digital zoom. It also has auto focus and a flash unit that performs optimally for 10 megapixel photographs.

Also, the B600 comes fitted with a LED autofocus feature, the first time ever for a cameraphone. The B600's LED autofocus feature assists users to capture clear, crisp photos even in dark settings. Located next to the lens, the LED autofocus automatically determines the distance and utilizes the appropriate focus setting for optimal photo shooting.

It also has the “Anycall Band” feature, where each person using this phone can play a specific melody of instruments and arrange it together to create a song for downloading.

It also supports Bluetooth functions, through which users can listen to their MP3 files, enjoy DMB and communicate with other people wirelessly via Bluetooth headset.

The high color Reproduction TFT-LCD produces the highest possible display for its size. The photo-fine chromarich LCD can reproduce 16 million colors, virtually any color found in nature, earning it the “True Color” appellation. Moving pictures can be recorded in QVGA resolution at 15-30 frames per second. Users can watch live TV in crisp picture through Satellite DMB function.

It also supports external memory (MMCmicro) in addition to its internal memory. The mobile phone supports a TV-out function where users can connect their phones to view still or motion pictures.

The B600 comes with a design reminiscent of a real digital camera. The front is designed as a bar-type mobile phone, while the back side is used as the digital camera.

Other advanced functions in the B600 include an MP3 player, business card reader, and 128 polyphonic sounds.

The B600 will be introduced in Korea during the 2nd quarter of 2006.

Flying Cat

2006-04-05T14:15:00.000-07:00

Flying Cat Toys seem to have given their site a good old spring clean at some point in the recent past and it's not bad at all. We were particularly pleased to notice that John Burgerman bears a passing resemblance to Shane McGowan - a sober version, naturally.
http://www.flying-cat.com/

Wireless VoIP-Disruptive To Who?

2006-04-05T14:01:00.000-07:00

Wireless VoIP-Disruptive To Who?: "It's clear that the mobile carriers are doing their best to keep as many minutes on their networks by hook or by crook. Dean Bubley, one of the better and free thinking mobile analysts has spent a lot of time covering the mobile/fixed mobile convergence space and weighs in with an opinion.

His closing point (scroll down to the bottom of his post) about niche players being where the difference is, really is what I believe. My gut tells me that the mobile operators who embraces the VoIP world and delivers a new combination of communication tools will rule the roost. "

Open source players unite for patch testing

2006-03-19T17:14:00.000-08:00

Source: vnunet.com

Spikesource has teamed up with a group of open source application developers to test and certify software patches for commonly used applications with their business suites.

Partners include virtualisation provider Xensource, CRM vendor SugarCRM, Business Intelligence specialist JasperSoft, LogicalWare mail management and the Alfresco content management software.

The programme for example will test a patch for the Apache web server and ensure that it works well with the SugarCRM application before it is distributed to subscribers of the service. Both SugarCRM and Spikesource will provide support for the stack as well as the actual application.

"We'll partner with companies to certify their products on top of our stack, " Nick Halsey, vice president of Strategic Alliances and International Sales with Spikesource, told vnunet.com.

The approach is new to the software industry, he claimed. Patches currently are certified only for a specific application, and require users to test for possible compatibility issues with third party products.

"We want to raise the bar and provide higher level of testing and support."

"Before, you had Linux operating systems available that were supported and you had applications that were supported. But what about everything else that you had to run in between? There is a tremendous amount of infrastructure that goes into setting up a J2EE server."

The programme evolved out of a similar offering that was launched last month with SugarCRM. It sparked other open source software vendors to create similar programmes.

Spikesource makes its money by collecting, testing and distributing patches for a series of commonly use open source middleware applications. Those services are sold on a subscription basis at fees between $995 and $65,000 per year, depending on the system configurations.

The company also has created a collection of seven stacks of open source applications that the company tested and certified to work together.

The stacks enable IT departments to pick a fully functional stack of applications instead of having to test and integrate dozens of open source solutions themselves, promising to make it safer and easier for companies to adopt and rely on open source. A typical J2EE server for instance can be made up of up to seventy components, Halsey said.

Spikesource was first launched in April 2005. The company logged over 100,000 software downloads and claims "a few dozen" paying customers, according to Halsey.

Sprint's pocket PC is smart, not showy

2006-03-07T16:39:00.000-08:00

At first glance, Sprint Nextel's PPC-6700 looks like a run-of-the-mill phone/PDA combo, but turn it sideways and slide the top up, and out pops a great QWERTY keyboard. It's a welcome relief if you've had it with the complicated, cramped keypads or hunt-and-peck on-screen keyboards that are standard on other smart phones.

While the PPC-6700 is not as sexy looking as the popular Treo, it's certainly less intimidating, with fewer buttons on the front to scare off tech-timid types. However, streamlined doesn't mean lacking in features.

Microsoft, Intel partners to make 'Light' tablet PCs-NYT

2006-03-03T08:33:00.000-08:00

3 March 2006, Source: Dow Jones International News

Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) and Intel Corp. (INTC) plan to announce next week that several industry partners will make small, light versions of a tablet personal computer, people close to the two companies said, The New York Times reported in its Friday editions.
The machines will be tailored more for consumer entertainment than the larger tablet machines running Microsoft's Windows that were introduced in 2002. The new models - a category called ultramobile personal computers - will have smaller screens, seven or eight inches, and sell for $1,000 or less, depending on options, the paper reported.
The machines will have the handwriting recognition software of the standard Windows tablet personal computers, and include wireless technology for browsing the Internet. But the new tablets will also have multimedia capabilities for playing music, movies and games in some models.
The Times reports that those describing the features would not speak for attribution because the products have not been announced, nor would they name the three or four manufacturers that they said were involved.
Intel will supply the chip technology for the ultramobile PC's, and they will run a version of Windows Tablet PC software. The models to be introduced this year are an initial step to what Microsoft and Intel hope will be a popular hybrid category of computer, the Times reports a consultant to Microsoft as saying.

Samsung SH-B022A, SH-B026A Blu-ray burners

2006-02-28T16:34:00.000-08:00

Samsung SH-B022A, SH-B026A Blu-ray burners: "Filed under: HDTV, Peripherals, Storage Previously displayed only under glass, or doled out for review to the privileged few, Samsung has begun showing off some of the company's first Blu-ray burners, which are expected to hit retail shelves in April. Heading the pack is the SH-B022A, an internal drive that supports both 25GB single-layer Blue-ray discs and 50GB double-layer discs with 2x write-speeds (so, yeah, you should go grab a meal if you're burning a 50GB BD). The drive also supports DVD burning at 12x and CD burning at 40x. An external version, the SE-B026A, has similar features along with a swanky case. Pricing hasn't been announced, but earlier word was that the drives would go for about $500. "

Shutdown the system

2006-02-19T16:09:00.000-08:00

The screens informing that Windows is shutting down are so nicely done, one can’t happen but wonder whether it is so that user will be more eager to quickly relaunch the system again. Guidebookgallery is showing them all, Amiga, Windows Longhorn, Mac OS X Panther, Gnome, etcetera, etcetera.

Orange plans SIMs with 8,000 times more capacity

2006-02-16T15:25:00.000-08:00

BARCELONA (Reuters) - Mobile phone group Orange plans to launch SIM cards this year that can store up to 8,000 times the data stored on present day SIMs, potentially helping to transform a traditional phone into a multimedia player.

The France Telecom unit said on Wednesday the 512-megabyte "MegaSIM" cards could store up to 130 songs, three movies or 80 games, compared with existing 64 kilobyte cards which could at best store a phone book and some text messages.

"The SIM will... remove the need for clumsy additional card slots that are required today to provide storage in multimedia handsets," the firm said in a statement.

Orange, which plans to roll out these cards across Europe this year, said the MegaSIM was the result of a collaboration with M-systems, Oberthur Card Systems and LG Electronics

SipPhone Lands $6 Million, Expanding into WiFi and Dual Mode Phones

2006-02-15T15:29:00.000-08:00

SipPhone Lands $6 Million, Expanding into WiFi and Dual Mode Phones: "Never one to miss where the market is heading, Michael Robertson has grabbed $6 million in investment money out of New York City and is indicating that his intent is to move into dual mode handsets, meaning WiFi/IP meets 3G cellular. That's a concept I have been hot on for sometime, ever since my buddy Jeff Craig at Bridgeport Networks almost two years ago or so started to fill my head with the possibilities of just what their technology can do.

What Robertson is doing and the direction he's taking SipPhone/Gizmo Project is much more focused and ultimately more on point with where other IM/Voice players have to go. Unlike Skype which is still focusing on dual capability, not real dual mode, Gizmo Project is seeking to really blend the two world together on one device, using the HLR (Home Location Registry) to pass the traffic between the circuit switched cellular world and the IP driven WiFi world.

As a GizmoProject user for some time not only am I happy to see this fund raising occur, I think their roadmap is right on.
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High Dynamic Range photography

2006-02-14T12:11:00.000-08:00

"HDR is a process whereby you take a number of shots of the same scene at different exposures and then merge them all together into a single image, with amazingly vivid results.
http://www.flickr.com/groups/hdr/"

The Rootkit of All Evil

2006-02-11T14:14:00.000-08:00

The Rootkit of All Evil: "Bruce Sterling looks at the repercussions of Sony's digital-rights quagmire and wonders if a dangerous precedent hasn't been set. From Wired magazine."

Cable research industry working on new standard for VoIP enhancement

2006-02-02T12:13:00.000-08:00

Cable research industry working on new standard for VoIP enhancement: "CableLabs, the research arm of the U.S. cable television industry, is preparing an updated standard that would enable its members to enhance their current VoIP offerings with video telephony, TV-based instant messaging, and integration of VoIP service with wireless. This would be done via the forthcoming PacketCable 2.0 communications standard,an upgrade of the PacketCable 1.5 standard now in effect.

Considering that most cable companies are CableLabs members, the effect of the new 2.0 standard on VoIP and broadband services is likely to be huge. "

Google working on Linux distro

2006-01-31T14:58:00.000-08:00

Google working on Linux distro: Google is preparing its own distribution of Linux for the desktop, in a possible bid to take on Microsoft in its core business - desktop software.
A version of the increasingly popular Ubuntu desktop Linux distribution, based on Debian and the Gnome desktop, it is known internally as 'Goobuntu'.

Skype updated to fix DEP Warning bug

2006-01-22T11:21:00.000-08:00

Skype updated to fix DEP Warning bug: " Skype has added a fix for the Data Prevention warning I wrote about in a Monday, January 16 post I entitled Alert: Skype 2.0 triggers Data Execution Prevention Warning.As documented in the screen grab at the top of this post, the fix is the leading repair included in the new Skype 2.0.0.73 for Windows. Download it here.

beginning asp.net 2.0

2006-01-11T13:51:00.000-08:00

Just letting you know I bought the book beginning asp.net 2.0 and downloaded visual web developer 2005 express edition Its free for a year, that is after a year you don`t get any updates from microsoft. I also download the express version (free) SQL Server.
Now I have to find a cheap webhosting service that supports asp.net 2.0. Let me know if you one?

Apple iPod Radio Remote adds FM to iPods

2006-01-10T15:44:00.000-08:00

Apple iPod Radio Remote adds FM to iPods:
We've been waiting just about forever for Apple to add an FM receiver to the iPod, and the company's competitors have had no trouble exploiting that lack; it's almost impossible to find a digital audio player from another company that doesn't have an FM tuner. Now Apple has thrown in the towel and added an FM receiver of their own to the iPod — sort of. The new iPod Radio Remote has a built-in FM receiver, something that's been available for some time on third-party products like Griffin's iFM. Of course, now that Apple's doing it themselves, the vendors can just throw in the towel. The iPod Radio Remote supports the nano and iPod with video, and is powered by the iPod. Stations can be saved as favorites, and the radio supports the Radio Data System for display of song or station information. Of course third-party vendors may still find an audience for their products given that Apple's offering only works with the most recent iPod models, and doesn't include a voice recorder or some of the other bells and whistles available on some aftermarket products.

Let Freedom Reign

2006-01-02T13:44:00.000-08:00

AllPeers is a free extension which combines the strength of Firefox and the efficiency of BitTorrent to transform your favorite browser into a media sharing powerhouse.

Regain control! You decide which media files you want to share with whom and to maximise your privacy, communications are encrypted.

Forget about complicated setup or obscure user interfaces. If you know how to use Firefox you know how to use AllPeers.