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Sometimes, when you’re downloading a large file from a NAS or website which requires you to login via an HTML form, you need to retrieve the website cookie into curl before resuming the download. curl -c ‘/tmp/cookie’ -d ‘username=USERNAME_HERE&passwd=PASSWORD_HERE’ http://full.url.to/login_form.cgi … Continue reading →

My wife took this video.. it’s right in our back yard at breakfast time.

I had the requirement to authenticate a website using SSO (pass-through domain authentication) and restrict access to certain groups in Active Directory. This is how I achieved it. Components used: Redhat RHEL 5 Apache 2.2 mod_perl mod_auth_kerb Apache2::AuthZLDAP Kerberos Service … Continue reading →

This circuit emulation configuration could be used in a DR situation. rtr1 is at the HQ site, rtr2 is at the remote site. rtr3 is at the disaster/failover site for HQ. It utilizes EEM with object tracking as an event … Continue reading →

My work has been published in a Cisco case study: Click here to read about it.

I recently had the need to build a test installation of MeetingPlace Express on our VMware environment. The process is not officially supported by Cisco as it is for Communications Manager, Unity, and Presence. Here are the modifications I made … Continue reading →

My Wife made this for my birthday — it’s so cool it deserves to be shared with the world.