Why can’t I remember this command?

In order to remove the entire access list, use the clear configure access-list command

Note to self, the ports I need to allow thru the Un-Authenticated ACL for Active Directory SSO to work…

TCP 88,135,389,636,445,1025,1026
UDP 88,389,636 

I can only speak one language, I do have a french qualification but it’s not worth the paper it’s printed on; so I admire anyone who’s native tongue isn’t english yet speak/reads/writes english.

Comments on my blog pose a problem, a tell tale sign of an e-mail or comment spam is poor english, now I’m not talking about having 100% correct grammar or spelling, in-fact this post title “good english comments” isn’t correct! What I’m talking about is comments that simply don’t make sense.

As it’s late, and I’m bored waiting for a customer call back, I thought I’d write about something both amusing & irritating. Recently I purchased a copy of Network Security Technologies & Solutions from Amazon, as I’m in no hurry I opted for the free royal mail delivery option. When I got home I found the Amazon box on my door-step and surprising the the box was open!!!

You hear about things going lost in the mail regularly and I can only presume that someone responsible for sorting the parcel spotted a rather heavy box from Amazon and thought it must be some expensive gadget, how disappointed they must have been to see that it was a dull old Cisco book

So, I’ve been toying with the idea of buying a mac. Using WindowsXP is a no go for me, we’re just not friends; work haven’t yet rolled out Vista. I love linux, have been using it for years, and have upset many an I.T department by partitioning their loving-crafted standard Windows Build with my favourite flavour of linux but I’m getting the same old Gripes….

Here’s the story, moons ago when I started in security somebody told me all about Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) in my enthusiasm I got straight on to downloading a copy; now this was a long time ago and I can’t remember if it was freeware or a trial from pgp.com, but either way I got straight onto generating a public/private key pair.

I’ve tried this before and binned it due to the mess MSN creates on your googletalk contact list, but here I am again re-connecting my MSN Buddies to GoogleTalk…

Connect Google Talk to AIM, MSN, & Yahoo - BigBlueBall Forums
Now that Google has opened up their Google Talk servers for federation with other Jabber servers, you can use Google Talk to connect to your friends on AIM, MSN, Yahoo or ICQ.

LINICKX.com is evolving, I’m not sure how yet but I’ve started by introducing twitter tools, google has changed the face of websites, according to google analytics my home page is not longer the top landing page, i.e. most people visiting my site hit the content they want directly and don’t need to navigate through the site… with this in mind I’m thinking about turning linickx.com into a tumblr type thing… twitter tools allows me to post short “thoughts” and “comments” without having to go through the full WordPress write post thing.

It’s taken me a few days to catch up with my x-mas RSS backlog, the below are worth a mention

• A WordPress Plugin that removes the version info by BlogSecurity
• AirX for the n800 fixed so I play display X apps on my tablet
• An interesting GMail Security Article hit digg.
• Some nice images (wallpaper) for my n800.
• How to Backup your google account.
• Cisco VPN Client for n800 ITOS2008 Released.
• Some wordpress admin themes.
• A Critical WordPress Upgrade 2.3.2 including a custom DB Error Page, which I suggested (believe it or not).

Computers can take over your life, so I tried to detox as much as possible over Christmas; of course when my main pressies from Santa include a bluetooth keyboard (for my n800) and a Playstation 3 complete disconnection is impossible - I’d probably break into a cold sweat if I did anyway!

As normal life and routine returns I thought I’d take the time to wish all my visitors and subscribers a happy new year, and I hope your Christmas was as merry as mine.

As it’s quiet at work (due to the usual x-mas madness) I decided on Friday to upgrade from Fedora 7 to 8, now this was a bit of a risk for me since I have F7 running perfectly. The fedora release notes advise a clean install over an upgrade, so it’s important when you do this to backup /etc so that you can restore anything you need later.

As with all fedora installs it’s always two steps forward and one step back, my reasons for upgrading were:

• Evolution 2.12
• Pam & Network Manager Integration and a Network Manager Upgrade

As Christmas draws closer, time becomes more of a premium, as a result blog activity suffers… I’ve thought about using twitter for my blog category, in the mean-time I’m using it with googletalk & facebook, so we’ll see if that develops.

I’ve had a chance to fix some annoying bugs with my laptop/life, and thought I’d share them here, they’ll pop-up in delicious when I get a chance to go thought my shared list, but until then here are some links….

I’ve been offline for a while, but I’ve just seen this:

The Associated Press: New Antivirus Software for Playstation 3
The company bills the software as the first of its kind for a home gaming system. It was released earlier this month as part of a PS3 upgrade and will be free until April.

This is a really positive thing to see; by the fact that there is a market there shows that “Joe gamet” is thinking about security , it’s a shame that sony aren’t giving this away for free but I guess that business .

I know that day light savings is new to the US, but in the UK it has always been, anyway something weird happened this year, the clocks changing clashed with a password change; now this may not have been the fault but since then I’ve not been able to get my gnome evolution email client to connect to our corp’ Microsoft exchange server (via exchange-connector).

After a bit of fruitless googling for authentication issues, I decided to try and flush my evolution settings by deleting (well moving actually) my ~/.evolution directory, but this didn’t help, neither did deleting the account within the client (you know via mail setup)… fortunatley I found the following FAQ :

I’ve decided to let the renewal of my domain name “calcylator.com” slip. The site was my web 2.0 idea that never got off the ground, the idea was simple, if you use ebay (as a seller) you need to calculate your costs, although ebay don’t hide fees from you the listing process doesn’t make it very obvious and if you sell a lot keeping track of your profit & loss is difficult… so I developed a site to track these and other costs (packaging etc).