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Meaning of the default EIGRP metric

Publicada el 2009-12-26 por alvarezp

Introduction and motivation I have always felt the EIGRP metric as being really overwhelming. I see values like «2820096» and instead of understanding it, I always end up asking what the hell does that number mean. For example, in RIP: … Sigue leyendo →

Publicado en English, Ensayos, Net-admin | Deja un comentario

Etiquette in e-mail message quoting

Publicada el 2009-12-24 por alvarezp

This is a translation of my previous post Etiqueta en el citado de mensajes de e-mail. Introduction The most ignored Internet Etiquette rule is that of the posting style when replying to an e-mail message. By «quoting» I mean the … Sigue leyendo →

Publicado en Computación, English, Tenía que ser un geek. | Deja un comentario

Bell on new line

Publicada el 2009-09-28 por alvarezp

To have a Linux beep each time a new line is printed on standard output, just filter your output through the following code: gawk ‘{print «07» $0 }’ This will effectively «prepend» a bell to each line. You can convert … Sigue leyendo →

Publicado en Código, Computación, English, Linux, Planet Gultij, Planeta Linux | Deja un comentario

Opera and mysterious font aliasing problem in Ubuntu and Debian

Publicada el 2009-09-20 por alvarezp

Opera renders text without antialiasing under Ubuntu and Debian when a value in the font-family CSS property matches a «Core X» font before an Xft font. That’s why Opera can be set to ignore core X fonts, by unchecking the … Sigue leyendo →

Publicado en Debian, Diseño web, English, Linux, Opera browser, Planet Gultij, Ubuntu | Deja un comentario

Making Opera work with Cisco Secure ACS 4.1.

Publicada el 2009-09-18 por alvarezp

This post should be called instead «Making Opera work around a Cisco Secure ACS 4.1 interoperability bug». Continuing with the stream of web browser interoperability issues I recently found how to make Opera 10 work with a Cisco Secure Access … Sigue leyendo →

Publicado en English, Opera browser, Planet Gultij | Deja un comentario