Archive for June, 2006
Wednesday, June 21st, 2006
not much to really update. things have been kind-of thrown out of whack in my life lately. work has shown me that i cant trust everyone at my office. my skills as a ‘would be’ boyfriend are somewhat shot. my car, enough said. and the awesome fact that i now have to move out of my house in t-minus 14 days. to update a bit on that situation we (meaning myself and my aunt sans another person) have found a place in sherman oaks that will suit just fine.. its a place she pined over about 5 months ago when we did the whole house-shopping thing before. its funny how when she called the owner, and i called.. no responses to voicemails or emails. and when our family friend calls, and mentions that we (used the lastnames) were really interested in the house and could pay cash, a phone call immediately returned 30 minutes later.
prius > hummer h2. my aunt has decided to get a prius, she heard a radio ad about leasing for 99$ a month for 36 months on a 2006 prius fully loaded. i have to pressure her to actually go and check it out, but with lately dealing with above mentioned situations, its growing harder and harder. i will update more as i see fit.
i spoke to my cousin yesterday and today, it was nice to actually hear from her. she is doing well and so is her boyfriend. they’ve been together for 4 years now. she asked when it was possible for her to come out to california with her boyfriend for a few weeks, and it would be nice to see them since the last time i did was around december 04′
i have had a few requests for the link to my old blog, here it is. http://www.deadjournal.com/~davemckissic
Saturday, June 10th, 2006
cisco pix
my oh so wonderful remembering experience with cisco firewalls has brought me to this conclusion, i needed to write the things i did down so i wouldnt forget them, last week i setup a failover pix 506e for our office co-location and these are the things i re-learned.
static routes from the outside interface need to be configured on the pix, they are not auto-detected.
(example, if you’re going to route the outside interface traffic from everyone through a router, you will need to setup 0.0.0.0 to point to your outside interface)
make sure you remember your vpn group name once you’ve set it up in the wizard mode, and don’t enable pre-authentication or individual usernames and passwords… unless you need them (i made the mistake of naming my vpn group ‘vpn’ and then forgetting that, tried to use the standard we always use)
if you are not using dhcp, remember you must configure an ip pool for clients to use
you must set the static outside interface address, its not dhcp. (to do this, launch pdm and go to configuration > system properties)
site-to-site vpn must be configured on both firewalls, and use the same hash and pre-shared keys (ie md5 must also use md5)
if your pdm always crashes, check the version of java you’re using.. for some reason cisco only likes a few versions.
remember to setup nat through ‘translation rules’ for ip addresses you want to use publicly.
remember to change your enable password through console, doing it in the device’s pdm will cause it to crash and wipe your firmware.
more to come when i remember, maybe i’ll get unlazy and post ss
Tuesday, June 6th, 2006
the need
i feel the need to update, as i have been frustrated for the past few weeks. let me just make this a point and say that i dont understand women. i am posting from starbucks on laurel canyon & ventura because i had to get away from the house. i know the person this is directed to will most likely read this post, and i don’t seem to care for some reason. i’ve realized in the past few days that i was becoming a person i didn’t want to be. i was becoming needy on her, almost like i needed her constant attention with things… and thats not cool.
since i dont have many friends after coming back from college, i am going to start pushing myself to get out more. later tonight i plan on stopping by the borders to look into some music, and whatever else catches my fancy there. this weekend i’m going to drive myself down to burbank and north hollywood to check out some of the stores i’ve been meaning to see.
things at the office this week are stressfull, i’ve been rushing with my boss to get this co-location approved before we ship our equipment out. to give a bit of background, since necessity is the root of all invention.. our building has decided that monday the 12th they will be shutting off power from 6pm until 2am’ish.. and the battery backups we have in place for the servers will last a good… 5-8 hours. Although things should run fine, and need no reason to be switched off-site; ryan and i will be planning ahead with a datacenter already setup in St. Louis running most of the production websites.
still working on a new place. have to start looking alot harder when i get a chance.
Saturday, June 3rd, 2006
http://www.larryflynt.com/notebook.php?id=163
i would normally find this guy a scumbag, but this was an interesting read.
Saturday, June 3rd, 2006
d’oh
i strive:
to be a mentor, i kinda want to be a teacher.
to lose weight, but who doesn’t.
to get outdoors, go on trips.
to not waste my life in front of this computer screen.
to find someone that understand me, and accepts it.
to be more versed in movies, politics, and music.
to find some sort of financial stability, away from credit cards and paypal.
Saturday, June 3rd, 2006
Microsoft Mobile and SSL
If you’re planning on using exchange with smarphones and implimenting SSL, check this first. I ran into this problem at my office AFTER we had purchased a geotrust certificate. Here is the situation, currently we have 5 windows mobile 2003 devices that are from cingular. I setup mine, and my co-worker was setting up his to do AUTD.
For those that don’t know what AUTD is, it maintains a connection to the exchange server when new items arrive via SMS messages, as a new email comes in, your phone is sent a text message telling it to connect to the server and download the new message. You never see the text message on the phone, its just a simple sms message (be warned, if your plan doesnt include text messaging you will be charged for it!).
After putting in our mobile addresses (cingular is 10 digit number@cingularME.com and verizon is 10digitnumber@vtext.com, fyi) there is an option to use SSL or not. We both chose SSL since its a secured connection that is signed by both parties. Ie my phone and exchange server know exactly who their talking to when downloading/sending emails. We both got INTERNET_45 errors, explained “INTERNET_45 (ERROR_INTERNET_INVALID_CA): Synchronization failed. The security certificate on the server is invalid. Contact your system administrator or ISP to install a valid certificate on the server and try again.” Yea yea, okay so what the hell.. its a valid cert right? WRONG, mobile 2003 and 2002 only support these following certs
- Verisign Class 1 Public Primary CA
- Verisign Class 2 Public Primary CA
- Verisign Class 3 Public Primary CA
- Verisign Class 3 Public Primary CA (2028)
- GTE Cybertrust ROOT
- GTE Cybertrust Solutions ROOT
- Thawte Server CA
- Thawte Premium Server CA
- Entrust.net Secure Server
- Entrust.net CA (2048 bit)
You can however get by this, grab the cd you got with your mobile device and browse to support/tools/disable SSL/ and copy the as_cert_off.cab file onto your mobile device, run that and you should be able to accept any SSL certs.
NOTE: THIS DOES NOT WORK ON MOBILE 5.0 SO DONT TRY IT!
Alternatively, there is this option. That disables Cert Checking on the exchange server itself.
But this will mess with mobile 5.0 as well, the moral of this story… ditch all mobile 2002 and 2003 devices and just go 5.0, or dont use SSL
Friday, June 2nd, 2006
a new beginning
well there is not much new to update about. obviously i moved back to california in september to be with family. school is over, i work for a pretty nice company, and i no longer have my piercings.
i moved out here after working for siemens in rhode island, i never thought i’d come back to california and find a good job. my love life is somewhat drowning itself, i’ve grown to just get over it. i found out today that we’re going to be moving out of the current house in studio city to god knows where. hopefully the new place will have better air conditioning than the current house, if so i plan on keeping it running constantly. lets see minus $700.00 every 2 months for pool expenses + $300.00 a month extra for running the air conditioning all the time. should even out and still give me enough to pay for gas bills.
i built a new computer, wait.. who’s actually going to read my blog? i really can’t think of any one of my friends that will take time out of their day to read the shit that comes out of my head. who cares. anyways, i bought a new computer from my company’s dell account after the one i built shit the bed. got a nice 24″ widescreen hidef to go with it.
im going to try and see if i can import posts from my old blog at deadjournal, should be interesting with this year long gap between posts. here is what i plan on doing with the new blog: microsoft and cisco stuff i’ve figured out i will be posting here with quick fixes on most things (hopefully with photos), link things about my personal and family life, and hopefully have enough space to ramble about my democrat views.
i’ll write more later. i am not in the best of moods right now, and its not particulary comfy in the house.