Monthly Archives: August 2009

Rsync for Windows clients

It looks like I will need a win­dows backup solu­tion for a small project soon. As you prob­a­bly know I don’t typ­i­cally do Win­dows so I am reach­ing out. I typ­i­cally use rsync for most of my backup needs. To be more spe­cific I like to use rsnap­shot which is a wrap­per around rsync. Have

NEC Aspire Default Passwords

It took me a long time to hunt these down and I think default pass­words should be freely avail­able. Aspire webpro (default ip is 172.16.0.10): Admin­is­tra­tor User­name: ASPIRE Admin­is­tra­tor Pass­word: 12345678 Exten­sion User­name: exten­sion num­ber Exten­sion Pass­word: 1111 Ultra­Mail (default ip is 192.168.1.250): Ser­vice Num­ber: 2000 Sys­tem Pass­word: CTL I also found a man­ual for Ultra­Mail, and a

Secure Hard Drive Wipe

I’ve been wip­ing a lot of hard dri­ves recently. I use shred to do the job. What do you do to your dri­ves before dis­pos­ing of them?

Just a little pickmeup

Wow I can’t believe these never made the top 40! IBM One Hun­dred Per­cent Club IBM anthem March On With IBM IBM rally song Inspired by Ben Rock­woods com­ment today about the IBM Songbook

Support Fail

I am a big fan of chat sup­port. I don’t have to drain my bat­tery wait­ing on hold until its my turn in the queue. Plus when deal­ing with error mes­sages its infi­nitely more help­ful to be able to copy/paste to the agent. Sadly find­ing com­pe­tent help is still an issue. Here is an excerpt