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Firefox Plugins
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If you are like me, you have moved into the upper echelon of human beings and started browsing the web with Mozilla Firefox.
Found this page that has a nice list of Firefox plugins: http://willlangford.com/geekpages/firefox/
Plugins I have found useful are:
1) The IE Tab Plugin: Allows you to embed Internet Explorer into your Firefox tabs. You may ask, why I would want to use IE? Well, I shall answer: There is only one time I need to use IE, and it is at work to access my time sheets. For some reason the time sheet page isn’t compatible with Firefox yet. ONLY TIME!
2) GMail Notifier: VERY small and inconspicuous notifier tells me when I have new mail.
3) Adblock: As a dialup user, the ability to block ads inside webpages serves me a lot.
Verizon Fiber Optics can’t come soon enough!
Today on the job
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Today at work I spent about 6 hours getting paid to read up and learn about the Solaris 9 operating system and Sun servers.
I put together some nifty info cheat sheets to help me navigate through Solaris — hopefully I won't need them for long though.
Last week my boss helped me set up my own Sun Enterprise 250 server in the downstairs test-bed so I could practice all my stuff on it. I've got Reflection X shell installed on my PC so I can work from my cube upstairs. The E250 isn't the newest or greatest, but at least i've got the whole machine to myself to practice on 
Anyway, this ain't the most exciting stuff, but hey — can't beat getting paid to learn 
LANSurveyor
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I was looking for a program with which to quickly make a neat map of a network when I stumbled upon LANSurveyor by Neon Software. This nifty program will scan an ip range (default 192.168.1.*) and map all devices connected to your network, whether it be a router, computer, or anything else with an IP address.
Granted, this software was probably designed for larger company networks, I found it useful for seeing who else is on a wireless network in a public place. I just loaded this baby onto my laptop, hopped on a WiFi network, and hit scan. It then brought me back a nice layout of each computer on the network. It looks like this:
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You can then save the network “map” and view it later off your hard drive.
On top of network mapping, LANSurveyor also has other useful tools, including asset management reports, network monitor, and remote administration and distribution. Most of these functions would best profit a larger network, but they are nice to have either way. I, however, have not tried them out.
I have just been using the trial version of LANSurveyor and it has worked out great. Feel free to give it a try over at http://www.neon.com/LSwin.shtml
5/5 stars in my book!
