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Dell PowerConnect 2724 default IP address

The default IP address for this switch is 192.168.2.1 with login admin no pass. This is only if you are running in web-managed mode, which you will see by a steady green light on the front left side. Now if is not lit, you will have to put it to that mode by pressing the little reset button on the far right front. It takes like up to 5 minutes for it to switch modes….

Linux enable promiscuous mode

I was using Debian to run NTOP and monitor my network. After setting up the port mirror, I realized no traffic was flowing to that ethernet adapter. To allow that adapter to listen to traffic, you need to put it in promiscuous mode. you can do this by putting in: ifconfig ethx promisc where X is the eth #

Dell PowerConnect 6248 port monitor

I had to call Dell to find this out because it wasn’t in there CLI and WebGUI area. Basically I was trying to monitor 10 ports on my switch to one port. This switch only support 4 multidirectional mirrors or 8 unidirectional mirrors. So basically if you are limited to 4 rx/tx port mirrors or 8 rx or 8 tx mirrors. I had 10 setup so no traffic was moving. As soon as I removed 2, traffic moved to my mirror port….

Word 2007 always save as 2003 format

To save Microsoft Office Word 2007 documents as 2003 by default, click on the office button (it’s that big circular thing)  in the upper  left hand corner. You will see word options on the buttom of that menu, click that. Click on the save tab, and you will see a save files in this  format drop down box. Choose word 97-2003 (*.doc).

Tomcat will not run

I installed Tomcat 5.5. from the MSI package on my Windows 2003 32bit server. Tried running the service with no luck. The Tomcat log showed that “failed creating java c:\program files\java\jre6\bin\client\jvm.dll.”

So what fixed it? I had to copy the MSVCR71.DLL into my c:\windows\system32 directory. This DLL was included with Tomcat also.

Trend Micro Officescan will not start in safe mode

If you try running the Trend Micro client in safe mode, you will get errors saying the service isn’t running, or the listener isn’t running. To use Trend Micro OfficeScan in safe mode, you will have to use command lined based scanning.

So open a command prompt, navigate to your trend micro folder and run VSCANWIN32. This will show you a few command line switches you can use. I just use VSCANWIN32 /S C:

Remove UNDOCK from Windows Vista Start Menu

How many times have you clicked the start button and accidentally clicked on the UNDOCK PC button? Such a pain. Then your machie undocks and you have to wait to redirect your LCDs, mouse, and keyboard. Fear no more. Do get rid of that silly icon,

Goto registry
HKEY_CURRENT\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

Create a NoStaffMenuEjectPc DWORD and give it a value of 1

Hibernation is missing in Windows Vista

I was using hibernation in Windows Vista for about a year when it just finally disappeared. I don’t know what gives, but to renable it, goto command prompt and insert this

powercfg /hibernate on

Then reboot your machine and you will be all set

How to find out when Windows was installed?

So how old is that server you have running? Does it need a refresh copy of Windows Server? You can check the date of install by running the following in a command window

 systeminfo | find /i “install date”

Remove multiple files/folders from DOS

So you are in safe mode, and you want to delete files and folders hey?

use this command

RMDIR /S /Q C:\FOLDERNAME

The /s removes all directories and files, and the folder itself
The /q is quiet  mode

So for example if you wanted to delete c:\OMG\cool

You would do RMDIR /S /Q c:\OMG\cool

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