February 28, 2005 You ever work on something and no matter how much you bang away at it. It never comes out the way you envisioned it? for example, i been working on a new banner for the site and already gone through 2 versions of it and hate how its turned out. I just cant seem to get it to a point where i can sit back and go “ok this is pretty damn slick”. I have one more idea to try out and see if it works out. I been messing with this for far too long already.
February 23, 2005 Adam just informed me the other day that Activestate released a new version of Komodo. Here is the new stuff with the 3.1 release Key Features * Subversion support has been added to the Source Code Control system. Support for Subversion is limited to the same features and capabilities available for CVS and Perforce. For more information, see Source Code Control Infrastructure Updates Komodo 3.1 consists of infrastructure updates and various bug fixes. These include: * Upgrade to Mozilla 1.7.3 As a result of these infrastructure updates, the following features and enhancements are available: * Syntax coloring for many new languages, including APDL, Asn1, AutoIt, Asm, Avenue, Bash, CLW, EScript, Erlang, Forth, Gui4Cli, Kix, Lout, Metapost, MMIXAL, Lot, MSSQL, Nsis, PowerBasic, PostScript, POV-Ray, Scriptol, Specman, TeX, Verilog, and YAML. To view a complete list of bugs fixed in this release, see http://bugs.activestate.com. Already upgraded to the new version on the laptop, need to upgrade on the desktop. I’m going to have to check it out now that i have a few PHP projects i want to work on.
* Perl AutoComplete and CallTips support is available in this release. See AutoComplete and CallTips for more information.
* The Python debugger has been rewritten into a regular Python package, and now includes an extension written in C to provide performance boosts for large applications, or applications using various GUI toolsets (eg. wxPython).
* PDK 6 support is now built into the distribution and does not require a separate step to enable.
* Upgrade to Python 2.3.4
* Upgrade to Scintilla 1.61
* Upgrade to GTK 2.2 on Linux
* Unicode and locale support has been enhanced.
* Performance of the UI components has been improved.
* Markers that show line wrapping when the editor is in wrap mode
* Better column select support. Use ‘Shift’+'Alt’+ arrow keys for selection.
* TrueType fonts are available on Linux.
* Anti-aliased fonts are available on Linux.
* Support for copying, pasting as well as dragging and dropping has been improved on Linux.
February 18, 2005 One of our students here at school accidently blew out IOS on of our lab 1721’s, and would only boot into rommon mode. So the professor handed to me and said “hey can you fix this?” not one to turn down a challange i said sure. After digging around i found out tha t you can push an image to a router via the console cable using xmodem via hyperterminal. Well i tried that and it didnt work too well, the connection kept dying. So i dug around and found out about a command in rommon mode called tftpdnld. This basically grabs IOS image via a tftp server and writes it to flash. I also found out that you can setup a router as a tftp server. I checked to see if ours supported it and it did. So here is what i did to get everything setup you have 2 routers now router A has no config on it, because they usually get wiped out after a lab. So when i booted it up i said no to using the auto config utility. after i get to the prompt i setup the ethernet interface next i need to configure the tftp server, the command is tftp-server and doing ? after the command will give you a list of all the options for it. Here we will do this will make it so that it will allow any tftp requests to grab this file. You can get the name of the image by doing show flash now the router acting as the tftp server is ready to go, what we need to do next is set up the broken router. Because the IOS image got wiped out the broken router will only boot into rommon mode and the prompt will look something like this here is the help output from tftpdnld usage: tftpdnld [-ur] The following variables are REQUIRED to be set for tftpdnld: The following variables are OPTIONAL: Command line options: to see what variables you have set while in rommon mode do set and it will show you. we need to setup the defaults and here is what i put in I also added these as well reason why i set the checksun to 0 is there is a bug where the checksum will fail on a perfectly good image, here is the bug report once you have those set just run tftpdnld and you should see this Invoke this command for disaster recovery only. just hit y now you should see the image download from the good router and then it will write it to flash. once that is complete just type in reset and the router should reboot backup into IOS.
routerA the good working router
routerB no IOS
ip address 192.168.1.1 2552.55.255.0
no shut
exit
tftp-server flash:
rommon 1>
Use this command for disaster recovery only to recover an image via TFTP.
Monitor variables are used to set up parameters for the transfer.
(Syntax: “VARIABLE_NAME=value” and use “set” to show current variables.)
“ctrl-c” or “break” stops the transfer before flash erase begins.
IP_ADDRESS: The IP address for this unit
IP_SUBNET_MASK: The subnet mask for this unit
DEFAULT_GATEWAY: The default gateway for this unit
TFTP_SERVER: The IP address of the server to fetch from
TFTP_FILE: The filename to fetch
TFTP_VERBOSE: Print setting. 0=quiet, 1=progress(default), 2=verbose
TFTP_RETRY_COUNT: Retry count for ARP and TFTP (default=7)
TFTP_TIMEOUT: Overall timeout of operation in seconds (default=7200)
TFTP_CHECKSUM: Perform checksum test on image, 0=no, 1=yes (default=1)
-r: do not write flash, load to DRAM only and launch image
-u: upgrade the rommon, system will reboot once upgrade is complete
IP_ADDRESS=192.168.1.2
IP_SUBNET_MASK=255.255.255.0
DEFAULT_GATEWAY=192.168.1.2
TFTP_SERVER=192.168.1.1 #ip of the fa interface on the good router
TFTP_FILE=
TFTP_VERBOSE=1
TFTP_CHECKSUM=0
http://www.cisco.com/pcgi-bin/Support/Bugtool/onebug.pl?bugid=CSCdk81077 (need CCO login)
WARNING: all existing data in all partitions on flash will be lost!
Do you wish to continue? y/n: [n]: y
February 17, 2005 You know, i really hate not having enough time in the day. I waste so much of it working on job stuff and never anything else. Well maybe not never, but it sure feels like it. I wish i had more time to work on interesting things, like helping out on a OSS project, learn something new, spent time with the girlfriend, or work on hobbies more. But now i just work my ass off and just have enough to get by.
February 17, 2005 If you havent noticed, I upgraded to 1.5. The upgrade itself was pretty damn painless and quick. I am going to leave the default Kubrick theme on here till i can cook up my own.
