http://www.ctdx.net Computer Geek Rambling Sun, 13 Jul 2008 12:16:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Introduction This document describes how to join a FreeBSD box to a Windows domain controller and to control access to the FreeBSD box.  We will be using Samba’s WinBind and Kerberos for authentication.   This document assumes that you have a functioning FreeBSD sever on a network with internet access. Install Samba Port   1.       ... http://www.ctdx.net/2008/07/11/freebsd-single-sign-on-with-active-directory-and-access-control/ I recently purchased a Windows Vista laptop and it worked great, well as soon as I bumped it to 2 gigs of RAM.   I was able to use the laptop at home and at one of my offices, both were on comcast cable.  I then took the laptop to the ... http://www.ctdx.net/2007/08/21/windows-vista-setting-mtu-to-work-with-adsl/   Class C   Mask  Notation   Subnets   Hosts  255.255.255.0 /24 1 256 255.255.255.128 /25 2 128 255.255.255.192 /26 4 64 255.255.255.224 /27 8 32 255.255.255.240 /28 16 16 255.255.255.248 /29 32 8 255.255.255.252 /30 64 4 255.255.255.254 /31 128 2 255.255.255.255 /32 256 1   Class B   Mask  Notation   Subnets   Hosts  255.255.0.0 /16 2 65,536 255.255.128.0 /17 2 32,768 255.255.192.0 /18 4 16,384 255.255.224.0 /19 8 8,192 255.255.240.0 /20 16 4,096 255.255.248.0 /21 32 2,048 255.255.252.0 /22 64 1,024 255.255.254.0 /23 128 512 255.255.255.0 /24 256 256   Class A   Mask  Notation   Subnets   Hosts  255.0.0.0 /8 1 16,777,216 255.128.0.0 /9 2 8,388,608 255.192.0.0 /10 4 4,194,304 255.224.0.0 /11 8 2,097,152 255.240.0.0 /12 16 1,048,576 255.248.0.0 /13 32 524,288 255.252.0.0 /14 64 262,144 255.254.0.0 /15 128 131,072 255.255.0.0 /16 256 65,536 http://www.ctdx.net/2007/07/23/subnet-cheat-sheet/ The ``terminal monitor'' command directs your cisco to send debugging output to the current session. It's necessary to turn this on each time you telnet to your router to view debugging information. After that, you must specify the specific types of debugging you wish to turn on; please note that ... http://www.ctdx.net/2007/06/25/cisco-debugging/ I had a heck of a time finding out how to convert a UNIX time stamp in Crystal Reports.  My company has a ecommerce package that stores all sales date in a UNIX time stamp format.  Which means it stores the time and date by storing the number of seconds ... http://www.ctdx.net/2007/01/19/crystal-reports-converting-unix-time-stamp/ If you want to copy Putty configuration from a Windows computer to another same version Windows computer, here is what to do: On a model computer, configure Putty to your desire, save and test it to make sure it works the way you want it to. Start/Run/regedit to run regedit tool Browse to ... http://www.ctdx.net/2007/01/10/how-to-export-and-import-your-putty-sessions/ Today was a fun day.  I rebooted one of my IBM Blade servers only to find out that it would only come back online in maintenance mode.  I had added a fstab entry for a USB drive that I was adding to the machine.  I hadn't taken the time yet ... http://www.ctdx.net/2007/01/09/fedora-linux-editing-fstab-in-maintenance-mode/ I have been looking for two days for the following information on how to easily allow my users that use exchange to report their spam to spam assassin. I found the following message from Mike French... Many thanks to all that replied to my request for information on implementing IMAP learning ... http://www.ctdx.net/2006/10/27/spamassassin-linux-exchange-imap/ I love VBSEO!  Although I still haven't seen a great increase in overall traffic I still love vbSEO, here is why...  The search engines have now index all of my pages and when you do a search for a particular subject on a search engine my actual vbulletin pages show up ... http://www.ctdx.net/2006/08/24/vbseo-update/ I have had vbSEO installed for over a week now and no real sign of increased traffic.  Whats neat is that we are getting new keywords showing up, like we were ranked #1 on Yahoo and MSN for the term "peppermint shrimp" for about a week. I'll keep updating. http://www.ctdx.net/2006/07/24/vbseo-week-2/