Posts in the Blog Category at Phil’s Blog, Page 8

Why I don’t like database stored proceedures

There’s a number of compelling reasons not to use them. Here’s just a few: They can’t be stepped through and

I’ve done this enough times to be confident that it works. There’s some great instructions written by Daniel Bernhardt which cover

With dd running in a terminal, open a new terminal to the server and send the USR1 signal to the

Telnet access is enabled by default on some IOS releases. See this article for why this is bad. If you

This is really useful if you need to hack around with a site that doesn’t use jQuery. In my case,

Some Cisco switches, such as our Catalyst 3560 series, have Smartports which can be configured via the switch’s web interface

I’m quite a big fan of writing code that interfaces with physical data. It somehow feels more fulfilling to see

The following function finds the number of weeks in a given month, assuming Monday as the first day of the

Being too cheap to pay for the Cisco support contract for our Cisco 7961 series phones and thus not being

Preface: For explanation of VLAN tagging, see this post. This seems quite a common thing to do yet it’s proved