Archive for May, 2006
links for 2006-05-29
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(tags: linux)
Google: Windows vs Linux
Google trends gives an interesting view on comparing Windows vs linux ones.
Windows is way above Linux. Before I ran the search I thought Linux would be top; the main reason because most people come from a windows background, so in order to even get started I would expect Joe Linux newbie to be googling for answers ! But as the results appeared sanity kicked in, you just can’t argue with the numbers Microsoft dominate the market so it doesn’t matter how many Linux users there are finding out how to change xyz there are always a shed load more windows ones wanting to find out how to reboot ! 
Other Cools Trends:
Battle of the OS’s
iPod Vs Walkman – lol
Google Vs Yahoo
Tab Mix Plus
Tab Mix Plus is a cool extension adding a shed load of features to firefox tabs.
The two I find most useful are, a close button on each tab and save state! – oh yes, if firefox crashes then now you can all your open tabs back 
Get it here from: https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=1122
links for 2006-05-21
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(tags: Security)
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(tags: internet monitoring)
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(tags: ipv6)
Simple catalyst port counts with excel
I’ve been a bit busy recently so blog traffic is a bit low 
I’m workin’ on documenting a customer network, and one of the things I needed to do was calculate the number of fast Ethernet ports available on each floor. Since I have a little if & then experience from my PHP work I figured I could achieve this in excel.
Unfortunately excels if & then’s aren’t nested so this may look a little nasty.
=IF(B3=5509,7*F3,IF(B3=6509,7*F3,IF(B3=5505,3*F3,IF(B3=5500,10*F3,”"))))
The deal is this, I have 4 types of switches Cat 5509, 5505, 5500 or 6509. Cell B3 tells me what type of switch I have, F3 tells me whether I’m using 24 or 48 port blades, and I assume that each Cat Switch has 2 supervisor cards.
The formula breaks down like this
if I have a 5509
then
7 x F3
else
if I have a 5505
3 x F3
else
if I have a 5500
10 x F3
else
if I have a 6509
7 x F3
else
Print Blank
then
7 x F3
else
if I have a 5505
3 x F3
else
if I have a 5500
10 x F3
else
if I have a 6509
7 x F3
else
Print Blank
sadly WordPress has hidden my nesting, but hopefully this makes sense
Playstation 3 News
Looks like Sony have finally given the world some firm information about the PS3 although at �400 I don’t think I’ll be an early adopter The new controller design is out too, I actually wonder if the boomerang shaped thing was actually a secret joke on the public by Sony ! Any-who bring on the PS3 gaming greatness !!!!!!
Firefox i386 on x86_64 rpm – ( Fedora Core 5 )
There are loads of posts on this and they all miss out a couple of pieces of information
How ?
Well I downloaded the latest firefox from fedora’s update page , then I ran: (as root)
rpm -ev firefox
then from the directory I downloaded firefox to:
rpm -ivh –nodeps firefox-VERSION-.i386.rpm
What happens Next ?
The first time I ran it, I got a pop up complaining about an install.rdf, I ignored this, and firefox loaded fine, but without any of my extensions in my profile. I then closed firefox, and the second time it ran by extension loaded ….. finally I noticed that the beagle index extension wasn’t loaded, so within firefox, I did a file open
/usr/lib64/beagle/beagle.xpi
and that seemed to do the job – Bring on the Java & Flashy plug-in goodness