February 9th, 2008

I found a really cool site that displays related content in a visual way, so if for instance you type in an Artist name like Pinback, it will show all related artists in a very cool visual way, very similar to some of the visual displays for Digg.com

Tags: liveplasma.com
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February 6th, 2008

This is a problem that I run into quite alot as most new PCs come with the Office 2007 trial pre-installed. When you try to setup Outlook 2003 for the first time you get the following error

“There was an error locating one of the items needed to complete this operation. It might have been deleted”

In order to fix this error you have to rename ‘mapisvc.inf’ one in

C:\Windows\System32,

and one in

C:\Program Files\Common Files\System\MSMAPI\1033

Once you rename these files start outlook again and it will reinstall the correct versions of the file and allow you to setup the users outlook profile.

Tags: items needed to, locating one of the, mapisvc.inf, There was an error
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January 31st, 2008

We have added a new forums section to techinvasion.net. We hope these forums will become a big part of the site and allow all the users to participate, ask questions, and get answers. The link to the forums is along the left hand side of the page in the categories section. You can also go directly to the forums by going to http://www.techinvasion.net/forum.

We are also looking for writers to post relevant articles such as the ones that have been posted by our 3 writers so far. If you are interested in writing for techinvasion.net please send an email to admin@techinvasion.net.  

Tags: forums
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January 30th, 2008

Anyone who has used office 2003 has noticed that when switching domains or logging in as a new user Microsoft Office ask you to insert the cd to cache files needed to start. In some cases it asks for files from older office versions that have been upgraded, sometimes you don’t even have the original cd. To solve this problem you can make a simple change to the registry that tells office not to expect cached files off the installation cd. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: office, Outlook, registry, SKU01A.CAB
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January 29th, 2008

 The Cisco IOS has many powerful security features that enable network engineers to protect their internal network. The Cisco IOS is capable of intrusion detection, deep packet inspection, and stateful firewall features. Setting up IPS allows the admin to push intrusion detection to the network edge. The Cisco IPS feature set can scan for spyware, viruses, worms, Trojans, and network intrusions by receiving updated signature files from Cisco. If a packet or series of packets matches a particular signature the router can, send an alert, drop the packet, or reset the connection of the offending user. In this way the network engineer can better protect the network by acting on suspicious packets before they can pose a risk to the network infrastructure, another advantage of pushing IPS duties to the network edge is it allows offending packets to be dropped before they take up finite network resources.  In large networks as much as 10 percent of network resources could be consumed by packets that ultimately will be dropped for security reasons deeper in the network. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: access list, cbac, Cisco, firewall, ios, ips, router, Security
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January 28th, 2008

This config is for the Cisco 1800 series router running IOS 12.4. IOS 12.4 has some command and syntax changes in reguards to interfaces and configuration commands for PPPOE. This config was submitted by my good friend Pedro Rivera.

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Tags: Cisco, CONFIG, WIC-1ADSL
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January 28th, 2008

Configuring a Cisco router to use the WIC-1ADSL card is one of the most commonly asked question by people in the Cisco forums. There are some interesting and compelling reasons to use a WIC card instead of connecting PPPOE through the ADSL modem in bridged mode. One of the most compelling reasons is the ability to use advanced QOS features such as interleaving and fragmentation. Because the DSL WIC card shows up as an ATM WAN interface, the router is able to perform those advanced Quality of Service features.  The overhead of encapsulating a packet in PPPOE and sending it to the modem over some length of cable is also a reason to use a WIC card instead of the modem.

It is important to realize that with most ISP’s you can configure the connection to use either PPPOA or PPPOE, the difference in configuration is very subtle however it can save you a couple of bits of overhead as PPPOE is encapsulated more time Than PPPOA.  So without further a due: Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Cisco, CONFIG, WIC-1ADSL
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November 12th, 2007

The real magic of the new Vista backup tool is the second option Complete-PC backup. This feature takes advantage of the HAL independence of Vista and allows you to backup your entire system at one time using the magic of volume shadow copies to backup open files. The backup is also stored in a virtual machine file which means that you can boot, run, and extract files from your backup using Microsoft Virtual PC. This is a really neat feature! If the previous feature isn’t enough for you Microsoft will let you restore your pc by bootin Read the rest of this entry »