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Does anyone have any recommendations or experience with replacing the Verizon FIOS HD-DVR set-top with a 3rd party box? I am looking to see if I can get a better tv experience and save the $17 bucks a month from my FiOS bill. Thanks!

Does anyone have any input or feedback on my idea to find a private internet provider? I want a provider that allows me to create a site-to-site VPN tunnel to their facilities, I want to then route all of my internet traffic from my comcast/verizon/tier 1 provider data over their tunnel and...

Has anyone every installed and deployed CiscoWorks from the ground up? We are looking into installing it to manage around 20+ switches (all cisco of course) and I wanted to get some feedback from those who have used it. I have never installed CiscoWorks or played around with it before but it...

I just bought my new HTC Incredible phone for Verizon. When I left the store I noticed that I only had 1 bar of service and the majority of the ride home I only had a bar of service. Ocassionally I would see the phone spike to full coverage but almost immediately drop back down to 1 bar or no...

Got a score of 840 on the ICND2 exam (I had already passed the ICND1 exam). So now I am fully and officially CCNA certified! Anyways, I am considering to begin preparations for the CCNP exam. How many of you out there are CCNP certified? What route did you take? Any input is greatly...

Since I passed the ICND1 exam a few weeks back I am now studying for the ICND2 exam. I have a copy of all of the exam requirements per cisco.com, a copy of the official Cisco ICND2 academy book by Wendell Odom, and a few spare routers lying around. What I am wondering is what can I expect on...

As some of you probably recognize (since I posted something about going for my CCENT last week) I am in the middle of studying for the exam. Currently I have the following configuration: 1 Cisco 2611XM Router 1 Cisco 2611 Router Both routers have only 2 Fast-Ethernet ports and I have...

Has anyone taken the new CCENT course offered by Cisco? Before I went around and jumped into the new CCNA I thought I would take the CCENT and see how the exam is. I just finished reading through a whole book on a variety of topics for the course and I was interested to see if anyone has taken...

Our current server is a Mac 10.4 server running as our domain controller and is handling open directory, DNS, and SMB/Windows service. We wanted to upgrade this domain controller to 10.5 without having to rebuild the box from scratch so that we can migrate all of its open directory info and...

I am having an internal debate about which is a better cable to use; a hand made Cat 5e cable or a store bought Cat 5e cable. I am using a bunch of patch cables that I made by hand a couple of years ago for the servers at my office and I am wondering if swapping out these old hand-made cables...

I just purchased a fibre channel switch to create a backup network for our Mac and Intel based servers here at the office. I am thinking about deploying XSan here in the office to take advantage of our 2 existing Apple XServe RAIDs. I am trying to find out how exactly this "metadata controller...

I have a list of about 200 folders that i need to print the names of within a directory. I want to browse to this list of folders in terminal and take that list of folders and put them into a txt file for printing purposes. I believe i can do this using the grep command and then piping what i...

Is there a good program, preferrably opensource, that can sit on our network and allow us to control how much a particular user/ip is allowed to print on a given printer. We have a color networked HP printer and people are using up the toner like its their job. Does anyone know a way i can...

I want to get mysql to boot up automatically when my machine is restarted. I need to access the file in /usr/local/mysql/support-files/mysql.server in order to start the server. I am using 10.3 on this particular server and as i understand i cannot use the launchd feature that came in 10.4...

I just set up a Microsoft Software Update Services Server on my Windows 2003 Server machine. I fully understand the concept of what i need to do to get this working but actually finding out how to do it is another thing. I have scowered microsofts website for information but found nothing. I...

The final piece to upgrading my companies existing backup solution is figuring out which tape/tape drive combo i am going to be using. I need a tape drive with atleast 500gb of storage capacity since i am backuping up everything on the network to this tape once a week. I have found the Sony...

I am installing a program called "SpyBuddy" made by a company called Explore Anywhere. I am not sure if anyone is familiar with it, but that doesnt really matter. My problem is that i need this program to run while users are logged in with Limited User Access. I cannot have users be...

I am installing a program called "SpyBuddy" made by a company called Explore Anywhere. I am not sure if anyone is familiar with it, but that doesnt really matter. My problem is that i need this program to run while users are logged in with Limited User Access. I cannot have users be...

Looking to setup a SAN off of my Xserve RAID box, and i want all of my servers that will be backing up/talking to the SAN to be on a gigabit network. I want to run jumbo frames on this gigabit network to take advantage of any latency reductions and speed increases that i can. I am currently...

I have approx 6 servers that do various functions; payroll, timesheet, mail, domain controller, etc. Two of these boxes are run on windows server 2000 (timesheet & payroll). The other servers like mail, fileserver, domain controller, all run on Mac OSX. Our fileserver runs off of an Xserve...

Currently, i have a G5 serving up our domain/fileserver for our windows network. It is attached to an Xserve raid box and that holds the data for the file server. We have a spare fibre channel card lying around and i wanted to stick it in the other slot of the Xserve and load up the other 4...

Without having to modify my wireless router, i would like to extend the signal quality/range of my wireless network throughout and around my house. I currently have an HP dv4170 notebook and its got the standard built in intel wireless radio. I want to upgrade to a Buffalo tech WLICBG54A model...

Its time to start organizing our server room, and i am looking into some cable management solutions. We have our rack setup and the cables look fine as far as the rack goes, but for the servers that sit on the otherside of the room along the wall, i want to setup some sort of cable management...

Heres the scenario: I attempted to log into our Router's SDM (secure device manager) using the usual administrator password with level 15 access but for some reason it wont take the password anymore. I also had myself setup to log into the SDM under level 15 access and have done so in the...

I have a Sony Vaio S460 notebook with some 802.11b/g wifi card built in (Mini-PCI) and i was wondering if sniffing a wireless network using the built in wifi card is any different from sniffing with any old ethernet interface on a wired network? Can i just fireup Cain or Ethereal and start...

Is there a passive, NON-inline solution to monitoring where people are going on the internet for our network. I know ethereal can do this, but it is going to give me EVERY packet that is coming in on our network. Can i break it down a bit more or is there another program that simply takes...

Heres the lowdown: cisco 2611XM router -> linksys 5-port hub -> local network 48 port switch I have 2 boxes sitting off of the 5 port hub. I have a snort machine setup and also an aimsniff/ethereal box. Both machines network cards are setup to sniff, snort can see packets and so can the...

Im running Fedora Core 3 and im in the process of configuring my snort system. Right now snort can log packets just fine off of either of the two interfaces i have setup (eth0 & eth1). Well thats fine and dandy but i would like to set eth0 to promiscous mode to sniff out packets and leave eth1...

I am currently in the process of finalizing my snort install. However, the boss has come to me and he does want the IDS for detecting alerts but he also needs to be able to view packets that users are sending out. Where they are going. Snort im sure can log all packets from the broadcast on...

I need help writing a function that takes in a string which is going to be the date in the following format: mmddyyyy. I understand the logic of how to do this, atleast i think so, but one peice to my logic is going to be comparing/cutting out parts of the string and i do not know the function...

I am currently messing around with Snort, MySQL, ACID, and other free open source programs that all connect together with Snort for intrusion detection. However, the boss also wants to know of some good commercial solutions for an active/passive IDS system. Anyone have any experience with...

I am interested in streaming music from my house so i can listen to it from work. I am wondering if i can stream music from winamp and also what ports does it require to stream the music so i can configure my router accordingly. Also, is there a way to secure the session over the internet or...

I havent yet decided which distro i am going to throw onto this machine but my question is this: I already have windows XP loaded on this machine with 3 partitions. Can i install any distro of linux i want on one of the other partitions and do a successful dual boot? Am i going to have to...

Anyone have any suggestions for a network IDS as well as Host IDS that would be for free or trial. IDS = Intrusion Detection System btw for anyone who did not know.

I need to auto fill text fields from a database dependent on a dropdown list. I was thinking I needed to use JS but not sure exactly how to do it. can someone please help.

I am pretty new to Mac OS X, and we are using it at our office to run as our Domain Controller/File Server/ various other tasks. We are currently using MDaemon as our email client on a Win2K box. Since we have a spare G5 (dual processor) i want to implement our email solution onto the spare...