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Outlook 2010 – The ‘Delete Conversation’ Shortcut

After finding this amazing shortcut the other day I thought it worth sharing. To ignore a conversation (which moves them to the deleted items) use the shortcut <CTRL+DEL>. Further details can be found here http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/outlook-help/ignore-all-email-messages-in-a-conversation-HA010361232.aspx

Vyatta – How to enable flow accounting

Flow accounting provides the ability to display statistics on your network traffic. And is defined on a per interface basis. Below shows you a quick summary on how to enable flow accounting and also how to view the statistics. Enable First of all flow accounting is enabled on each of the interfaces. vyatta@vyatta# set system … Read more

Vyatta – How to configure an IPSEC site to site VPN

Within this article we will show the necessary steps required to build a site to site IPSEC VPN. The following example consists of the following encryption domain:  Local  Remote Peer  2.2.2.2  1.1.1.1 Endpoint  192.168.3.0/24  172.16.0.0/16 NAT First of all 2 NAT rules are configured to ensure the traffic is not NAT`d. set nat source rule … Read more

Vyatta – How do I secure management access ?

In order to secure management access you will need to A) enable the firewall and B) create a firewall policy and assign this to your management interface. Enable Firewall First of all enable the firewall. set firewall                                         set firewall state-policy related action accept      set firewall state-policy established action accept   set firewall state-policy invalid action drop … Read more

Brocade ADX – The Dynamic Weighted Predictor

The ADX provides a number of loadbalancing methods (also known as predictors) such as round robin and least connections.Within this article we will look at the Dynamic Weighted loadbalancing method. Summary The Dynamic Weighted balancing method is a dynamic predictor that allows you to distribute traffic based upon the resource usage of your server (such … Read more

Serve Multiple Domains from a Single Django Project

Introduction Within this article we will be showing you the necessary steps required to serve multiple domains from within a single Django project. This example will based upon a project named ‘myproject’ and 2 domains named ‘domain1’ and ‘domain2’. Below shows the file structure. /opt/ `– django     |     `– myproject         |– __init__.py … Read more

How do I configure Django to serve my Robots.txt file ?

Within this article we will look at how to configure Django to serve your ‘robots.txt’ file. Though there are a number of methods available to achieve this, this example we will only look at the Django urls.py method. In that only the the urls.py file within your Django project will need to be changed. Example … Read more

How do I import a python module from another folder ?

Within this article we will show you how to import a python module that is located within a different folder. This example will be based upon your folder structure including a folder named ‘module’ and the path ‘/opt/django/myproject/’ already being within your python system path. Example Folder Structure Below shows you a quick example of … Read more

Juniper SRX – How do I configure LACP (802.3ad) ?

IEEE 802.3ad (LACP) is a technology that provides a method of aggregating multiple Ethernet links into a single logical channel. Configuration To configure LACP the following commands are used. This example aggregates the interfaces fe-0/0/3 and fe-0/0/4 into a logical interface named ‘ae1’. This logical interface is then configured as an access port and assigned … Read more

Configure F5 to Equally Distribute HTTP Requests

Question How do I configure my F5 to equally distribute HTTP requests so that each request goes to a different server ? Answer To ensure that each request goes to a different server rather then all requests for a single connection going to the same server you will need to: Disable CMP Clustered Multi-Processing (CMP) … Read more