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10 dumb things you can do to your Cisco router

One of the best ways to improve your admin skills and sidestep problems is to learn from the mistakes of others. David Davis put together this list of missteps and oversights to help minimize Cisco router pitfalls.This download is also available as an entry in our Network Administrator blog.

Tags: Cisco Router, Router, Cisco Systems Inc., David Davis, Networking

Download resources 2009-01-15

Use this template to configure a Cisco PIX Firewall

Configuring a new Cisco PIX Firewall can be challenging and time-consuming. Why not automate the process with an Excel template? As a companion download to David Davis' article, "Configure a Cisco PIX Firewall with this template," this Excel workbook will generate the appropriate configuration for the firewall. All you need...

Tags: Cisco Systems Inc., Cisco PIX Firewall, David Davis, Network Security, Firewalls, Networking

Download resources 2007-01-11

Use this template to configure a Cisco Catalyst 2950 switch

While configuring a new Cisco Catalyst switch isn't necessary difficult, it can be time-consuming. Why not automate the process with an Excel template? As a companion download to David Davis' article, "Configure a Cisco Catalyst 2950 switch with this template," this Excel workbook will generate the appropriate configuration for your...

Tags: Cisco Systems Inc., David Davis

Download resources 2006-11-30

How do I... Speed up the switch port initialization process?

When connecting a PC to a Cisco switch, it may sometimes take 30 seconds or more before the PC can communicate on the network. But with a few simple steps, you can shave off 30 seconds or more. When you're waiting for something to work, 30 seconds can seem like...

Tags: PC, Cisco Systems Inc., David Davis, Desktops, Hardware

Download resources 2006-11-28

Use this template to configure QoS on your Cisco router

Using quality of service QoS on Cisco network devices helps provide both bandwidth and priority to certain types of network traffic. Configuring QoS on your Cisco router can be tricky, but this template can help. As a companion download to David Davis' article, "Configure QoS on your Cisco router with...

Tags: QoS, Cisco Router, Router, Cisco Systems Inc., David Davis, Networking

Download resources 2006-11-16

How do I... Monitor traffic on a network for free with Ethereal

Network administrators have to know what is going within the network at all times. This task requires a monitoring application that can be relied on. If you want to monitor traffic on your network, you can purchase a packet analyzer. However if your budget is tight, you don't have to...

Tags: Monitor, Network, Open Source, Monitoring, David Davis, Monitors & Displays, Networking, Hardware, Components

Download resources 2006-11-09

Additional Resources

The Converging Paths of SQL Server and SharePoint - Don't Wait Until It's Too Late!

SharePoint and SQL server have much in common, and understanding their similarities will help you streamline your day-to-day tasks and help you work more efficiently. Do you know what those similarities are? In this Quest Software Pain-of-the-Week webcast, join David Walker, Doug Davis and David Gugick as...

Tags: Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft SharePoint, Server, Quest Software Inc., Content Management, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Managed Hosting, Databases, Software, Data Management

Webcasts 2009-10-21

Whatever happened to CMP?

When this decade dawned, the big three technology news publishers were International Data Group, Ziff-Davis and CMP Media. Now, Ziff-Davis has been split into multiple pieces, including this site owned ultimately by CBS. And the initials “CMP” are nowhere to be found. The business that brings you...

Tags: Acquisition, Information Week, CMP Media, United Business Media, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Thin Clients, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Hardware, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-09-09

2008 Pwnie Award nominees announced

Well, after getting 134 nominations, and spending countless hours pulling out nominees, the judges for the 2008 Pwnie Awards have announced the final nominees to be voted on.  From the site: The final list of nominees for the nine Pwnie Award categories is ...

Tags: Attack, Flaw, Lifelock, Nathan McFeters, Nominee, Security, Vulnerability, XSS, XSS Flaw

Blog posts 2008-07-21

UFO News 1 (Windows)

Direct links to George Noory of Coast to Coast Am reaching 20 million listeners each night, Jeff Rense his radio show reaches 15 million listeners each night and 78 of the top UFO, Alien abduction, Cattle mutilation and Crop circle researchers on this planet starting with Mar Allin, Colin Andrews,...

Tags: Horn, Sidebar Gadgets, Microsoft Windows, Advertising & Promotion, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing

Software downloads 2008-04-16

Software Update may balk at recent firmware updates

Software Update may balk at recent firmware updatesDavid, you've got your chocolate in your peanut butter...Or rather your text in your graphics or your graphics in your text.RE: Software Update may balk at recent firmware updatesYeah, mine balked, too. But after downloading the update and running it, it told...

Tags: recent firmware update, Software Update, firmware, firmware update, software

Discussion threads 2008-04-09

Saying goodbye to ZDNet

Saying goodbye to ZDNetAgreed, Where I noticed a problem..I think a while a go most of the blogs referenced ZDnet News Articles, then after a while the ZDnet blogs began to reference other blogs and now the News articles are becoming harder to find and less informative. This is...

Tags: Blogging, ZDNet Blogs, New Web Site, blog, blogger, goodbye

Discussion threads 2008-03-27

Snowflakes or 3-D snowfakes?

Snowflakes have been puzzling mathematicians for about four centuries. Still, scientists have never been able to fully explain snowflake shapes. For example, is this true that their six-pointed structure reflect an underlying crystal structure? Now, two U.S. mathematicians have developed software that simulates 3-D snowflakes. And they discovered that even...

Tags: 3D, Researcher, Image, Computer, Molecule, Productivity, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-01-21

After the hello, goodbye and thanks

It's really hard to believe that it was almost a year ago that Larry Dignan was welcoming me to ZDNet to start this Zero Day blog.  It feels like it was only yesterday I was boarding a flight for the RSA Security conference to take the full-time blogging plunge. ...

Tags: Larry Dignan, Goodbye, Blog, Blogging, Team Management, Internet, Management, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2007-12-14

Talking about that Semantic Web thing

Opinion, to put it mildly, is somewhat divided on the whole Semantic Web thing. Is it the same as 'Web 3.0'? Or is it simply close enough for the distinction to pale into insignificance amongst those who don't see counting angels on the heads of pins as...

Tags: Web, Semantic Web, Web 2.0, Internet, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2007-11-09

Leopard's beefier Spotlight may reconfigure Tiger indexes

Leopard's beefier Spotlight may reconfigure Tiger indexesIt doesn't really matter...how you define yourself; it's how others define you.By anyone's definition, the Zealot is a shill and a troll.Hehe, Apple developers fear for their lives!![i]A developer, [b]who also declined attribution[/b], when contacted about the rebuilding issue said: "That might explain some...

Tags: Leopard, pref, user folder

Discussion threads 2007-10-25

No whine from California wineries so far

In what may the highest possible use of solar energy, wine grapes have ripened in vineyards across the northern hemisphere. I checked with the California Wine Institute and they say there's been some pattern of slightly earlier harvests, but annual variations based on that season's weather patterns...

Tags: Carbon Dioxide, Harvest, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2007-10-03

Encyclopedia of American Cinema. FREE first chapter in the trial version (Mobile)

This illustrated Encyclopedia includes biographies of the best American directors and actors, reviews of the best American movies, and lists of awards. FREE first chapter in the trial version.Features Fully illustrated. Search for words or phrases. Navigate from Table of Contents or read page by page Add Bookmarks Text annotation...

Tags: Cinema, Mobile, Biology, Director, MobileReference, American

Software downloads 2007-09-27

The Rehabilitation Specialist's Handbook (RehabHB™) (Mobile)

The Rehabilitation Specialists Handbook, 3rd Ed.powered by Skyscape Authors: Jules M. Rothstein, PhD, PT, FAPTA, University of Illinois; University of Illinois Hospital, Chicago, Illinois; Serge H. Roy, ScD, PT, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts;Steven L. Wolf, PhD, PT, FAPTA, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia; David Scalzitti, MS, PT, OCS, American Physical Therapy...

Tags: Mobile, Handbook, Skyscape Inc., Rehabilitation Specialist, PT, Team Management, Healthcare, Strategy, Management

Software downloads 2007-09-21

Nano's new frontier, green tech

At the AlwaysOn GoingGreen conference in Davis, Calif., panel moderator David Scott Lewis, SVP of Zytech Solar leads a discussion with executives on nano and MEMS technologies that are being developed in next-generation green practices. The panelists are Pankaj Dhingra, CEO at Nanostellar; Deepak Srivastava, CTO at Nanoexa; and Vincent...

Tags: Green Technology, Nano, Emerging Technologies, Green

Videos 2007-09-19