This is just a post as a reminder to myself. When using the built-in ftp client in Ciscos IOS if you are having problems with it try “debug ip ftp”. Also if you are filtering connections to your ftp server by ip address you will probably need specify the source interface with “ip ftp source-interface interface”.
I love Google Reader. I use it to read a lot of different blogs. I often will breeze through feeds tapping the “v” key to open an item that looks interesting in a new tab. This works fine except that the new tab receives the browsers focus. I like for the tab to open in the background. I even made this the default behavior for when I click on links. Unfortunately Google Reader doesn’t respect this setting. After searching high and low I found an about:config setting that forces the tab to open in the background.
Setting browser.tabs.loadDivertedInBackground to true in the about:config solves this. Hopefully this tip will help someone else from having to dig.
For whatever reason you find yourself needing to create a pdf. Amazingly enough this happens once every couple of months and you don’t want to spend $88.95 plus S&H on Adobe Acrobat Standard just to scratch this small itch. Well never fear, someone has already scratched for you. For the price of a 13mb download you can be creating PDF’s left and right with PDFCreator. This open source program creates a virtual printer that you can use with just about any windows program to create pdf files. The downloads can be found here.
If you are a parent with young children then you have or probably will be faced with the question of what to do if your child has a fever.
A nice little summary of what to do in this situation can be found at www.pediatricweb.com. I found this link courtesy of WikiPedia.org.
Amber has graciously given me the link to Rhonna’s blog. Rhonna is the one who inspired Amber to take the 21 day challenge. And what do you know I made it through day 1.
Despite what Microsoft says in this faq you can do remote assistance through two NAT routers. I learned how to do this last year and it comes in handy if you need to support family and friends remotely when you both are behind NAT routers. (Which by the way, you should be 
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1. You will need the remote users internal ip address and the wan address.
2. Walk the remote user through setting up their router to forward port 3389 TCP to their internal ip address.
3. Have the remote user send you an invitation via email.
4. Save the rcBuddy.MsRcIncident file to your hard drive some where easy to find.
5. Open rcBuddy.MsRcIncident in your favorite text editor.
6. Find the RCTICKET attribute and change the ip address inside to the remote users wan ip address
7. Save the file
8. Then double click the rcBuddy.MsRcIncident file and go through the motions.
9. And cross your fingers.