Month: June 2008
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Archive your corporate e-mail, it’s the law
As of December 2006 the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) rules have been amended to require institutions to archive their email and other electronic data so they can present present it as evidence in civil litigation. An entire industry has sprouted up to help companies comply with what is commonly termed eDiscovery law. The…
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Goodbye Oettinger GTI
The dot-com bubble was good to me, ain’t gonna lie. By the time I was 21 I was obsessed with this car and had enough cash to buy it with cash. Looking back, I put way too much money into it and thankfully sold it in ’04 to finance a trip back to school amongst…
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Cisco Catalyst with StackWise not that wise
Today I attempted to add a Cisco catalyst 3750 to an existing stack of Cisco switches. A stack is a number of sequentially connected switches via the proprietary 16gbps StackWise™ cable. As the advertising story goes adding a switch to an existing stack should be as simple as connecting the switch to the stack via…
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Fix a Cisco 3750 with blinking PoE light
In this article I’ll discuss how to fix a Cisco 3750 24 Port power over Ethernet (PoE) switch with a rapidly blinking amber PoE light. Amber lights usually indicate something bad, so I consoled into the switch and did a “show power inline” to find out that several ports showed faulty PoE operation. Here’s how to resolve…
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Fix broken images in Outlook 2003
A strange problem exists with Microsoft Outlook 2003 where embedded images in HTML encoded messages are replaced by a red x (broken image). After searching lots of articles on Google which suggest an issue with a temporary internet folder called OLK20 or OLK40 I was still unsuccessful in fixing the broken image problem. Here’s how…