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Sonicwall tz100 layer 2 transparent mode for purpose of web filtering

admin — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 17:31:54 +0000

So you have a nice router in place that has no effective content filtering. You want to put some in but arent sure what to do

Get a tz100 with filtering. Set it up in layer 2 transparent mode. Put it physicall between your router and network. Job done!

Getting old

admin — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 16:52:26 +0000

Im turning 30 soon. im also going to be a daddy at the same time. so ive been trying to think random things to show how old i am or am not
black starbar wrappers
commodore 64 tapes with 10 games on them
double mr freeze being new
final fight arcade game in campbells
tom roches original
teddys
tom roches place next door
inner tubes being so feckin cool on the river
playin soccer in the playground
brandon park before its make over
the clubhouse in the pitch n putt
old avonmore
telephone boxes at globe and garda station
Anyone got any others?

Galaxy s i9000 upgrade to gingerbread

admin — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 09:16:58 +0000

So i had my galaxy with android 2.2 froyo

It was bloody slow and lag

I upgraded to 2.3.3 gingerbread and the difference is staggering. Its like going from vista to windows 7

and it is very easy to do

Fuel prices in ireland lose the plot again

admin — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 09:42:38 +0000

Fuel is on average 1.50 per litre. I have been informed by a service station manager that its going to go up by 6 cents shortly. Why? Why are we being crucified at the pumps?

I know over half the cost is taxes, but can the govt afford to reduce this vital intake?

We need a new fuel source for our vehicles. Perhaps biofuels? We can even grow and refine it ourselves!!

Broadband Inequality

admin — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 16:11:50 +0000

Tell me, what entitles Carrick-on-Suir top brilliant broadband??

RAID

admin — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 14:46:15 +0000

RAID Arrays. Brilliant arent they? Yes and no.
Yes – Data Redundancy!!
No – Working in BIOS environment to get them to sync up and hoping its all going well!

MCITP Certified!

admin — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 11:49:33 +0000

I am MCITP Certified!

Weird memory issue in SBS2003 and sbs monitoring

admin — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 12:26:09 +0000

My SBS 2003 server has been acting funny for a little while. One of the sqlsrvr.exe processes was taking up a lot of memory and CPU. So a did a quick google, and found this
http://msmvps.com/blogs/bradley/archive/2005/02/04/34984.aspx

Seems that the memory allocation for the sbsmonitoring sql process is a bit generous with its RAM!

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admin — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 09:22:04 +0000

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How important is a users password complexity on Windows Server?

admin — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 11:48:17 +0000

The quick answer is very. I recently had the delight to be presented with a 2003 SBS machine that was sending out thousands of SPAM email messages. At first i thought “open relay” but no, a quick telnet and attempt to send an email as an outside domain failed, so that wasnt the issue.

The big problem was that this was an Econel 50 machine, with 1GB of RAM, and is 5 years + old. The SPAM was killing the machine.

I enabled every part of logging that i could, up to the highest level, but my main issue came from the SMTP logs. There was no source IP being detailed at all. And when i closed the SMTP port on the router/firewall, the queues stayed filling up.

I started to look around, and came across the security log in the eventvwr and say a user logging in and out almost 100 times in the space of thirty minutes. Whats more, i knew that this user was no longer in use. I immediately disabled the user, changed the password on the user, and cleared the queue. I then opened up the various ports, turned exchange back on, and boom, spam gone.

Seems that a generic user with a generic password was the culprit. so if you setup a “sales” or “marketing” or “teacher” user, pleease do NOT use the same as the password!!