National Handicraft Fair in Panama

Posted on August 1st, 2008 in News, World by

A Kuna Yala woman sells her molas work, which are an ancient Panamanian art form created from fabric and worn by the Kuna Yala people, during the annual national Handicraft Fair held at the ATLAPA Convention Center in Panama city, capital of Panama, July 30, 2008. (Xinhua Photo)

A woman picks up a wooded parrot during the annual national Handicraft Fair held at the ATLAPA Convention Center in Panama city, capital of Panama, July 30, 2008. The fair opened here is held from Wednesday, July 30 through Sunday, August 3. (Xinhua Photo)

The annual national Handicraft Fair is held at the ATLAPA Convention Center in Panama city, capital of Panama, July 30, 2008. The fair opened here is held from Wednesday, July 30 through Sunday, August 3.

Training for Olympic glory

Posted on August 1st, 2008 in News, World by

Members of the British Olympic diving team practice during a training session at the National Aquatic Center or “Water Cube” in Beijing, July 30, 2008. The venue will host the swimming, diving and synchronized swimming events for the 2008 Olympic Games. (Xinhua Photo)

Members of the the British Olympic diving team practice during a training session at the National Aquatic Center or “Water Cube”, in Beijing, July 30, 2008. (Xinhua Photo)

A marksman (R) from the United Arab Emirates Olympic shooting team shoots at a target during a training session at the Beijing Shooting Range Clay Target Field, ahead of the Beijing Olympic Games in Beijing July 30, 2008.(Xinhua Photo)

An Olympic volleyball player spikes the ball during a training session at the Capital Indoor Stadium, in Beijing, July 30, 2008. The venue will host the volleyball events for the 2008 Olympic Games.(Xinhua Photo)

A foil fencer from the Roumanian Olympic team gets instruction from her coach inside the Fencing Hall of National Convention Center, in Beijing July 30, 2008. (Xinhua Photo)

Athletes practice during a training session in Beijing, ahead of the Beijing Olympic Games July 30, 2008.(Xinhua Photo)

Thousand-hand Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva

Posted on August 1st, 2008 in China, News by

Chinese dancers perform the “Thousand-hand Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva”, or “Guan Yin”, a Chinese goddess, at the Olympic Village in Beijing July 31, 2008. [Agencies]

Chinese dancers perform the “Thousand-hand Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva”, or “Guan Yin”, a Chinese goddess, at the Olympic Village in Beijing July 31, 2008. [Agencies]

Chinese dancers perform the “Thousand-hand Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva”, or “Guan Yin”, a Chinese goddess, at the Olympic Village in Beijing July 31, 2008. [Agencies]

Chinese dancers perform the “Thousand-hand Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva”, or “Guan Yin”, a Chinese goddess, at the Olympic Village in Beijing July 31, 2008. [Agencies]

Chinese dancers perform the “Thousand-hand Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva”, or “Guan Yin”, a Chinese goddess, at the Olympic Village in Beijing July 31, 2008.

Cisco Dynamic IP Configuration

Posted on August 1st, 2008 in CCNA, Cisco by

service udp-small-servers
service tcp-small-servers
!
hostname Router
!
enable secret ########
!
ip subnet-zero
isdn switch type basic-ni1
!
interface ethernet0
  ip address 192.168.0.1 255.255.255.0
  ip nat inside
!
interface BRI0
  no ip address
  no ip address
  encapsulation ppp
  dialer rotary-group 0
  isdn spid1 21440797860101 4079786
  isdn spid2 21440797680101 4079768
  no fair-queue
  no cdp enable
!
interface Dialer0
  ip address negotiated
  encapsulation ppp
  ip nat outside
  dialer remote-name dallas
  dialer idle-timeout 300
  dialer load-threshold 50 either
  dialer string 2145555555
  dialer-group 1
  no fair-queue
  no cdp enable
  ppp authentication pap callin
  ppp pap sent-username MYUSERNAME password MYPASSWORD
  ppp multilink
!
ip classless
ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 dialer0
access-list 101 permit ip 192.168.0.1 0.0.0.255 any
dialer-list 1 protocol ip list 101
ip nat inside source list 101 interface dialer 0 overload
!
line con 0
  password CONSOLEPASSWORD
  login
line aux0
line vtr 0 4
  password TELNETPASSWORD
  login
!

Cisco 640-801 demo

Posted on August 1st, 2008 in CCNA, Cisco by

1. Which connections allow the use of full-duplex Ethernet?(Choose three.)
A. switch to host
B. switch to switch
C. hub to hub
D. switch to hub
E. host to host
Answer: ABE

2. Which of the following statements are true regarding bridges and switches? (Choose 3.)
A. Switches are primarily software based while bridges are hardware based.
B. Both bridges and switches forward Layer 2 broadcasts.
C. Bridges are frequently faster than switches.
D. Switches have a higher number of ports than most bridges.
E. Bridges define broadcast domains while switches define collision domains.
F. Both bridges and switches make forwarding decisions based on Layer 2 addresses.
Answer: BDF
 
3. Which of the following host addresses are members of networks that can be routed across the public Internet? (Choose three.)
A. 10.172.13.65
B. 172.16.223.125
C. 172.64.12.29
D. 192.168.23.252
E. 198.234.12.95
F. 212.193.48.254
Answer: CEF
 
4. Which command is required for connectivity in a Frame Relay network if Inverse ARP is not operational?
A. frame-relay arp
B. frame-relay map
C. frame-relay interface-dlci D. frame-relay lmi-type
Answer: B
 
5. After the show ip route command has been entered, the following routes are displayed. Which route will not be entered into the routing table of a neighboring router?
A. R 192.168.8.0/24 [120/1] via 192.168.2.2, 00:00:10, Serial0
B. R 192.168.11.0/24 [120/7] via 192.168.9.1, 00:00:03, Serial1
C. C 192.168.1.0/24 is directly connected, Ethernet0
D. R 192.168.5.0/24 [120/15] via 192.168.2.2, 00:00:10, Serial0
Answer: D

CCNA Study Guide Chapter 10

Posted on August 1st, 2008 in CCNA, Cisco by

Identify security threats to a network and describe general methods to mitigate those threats.

l  Describe today’s increasing network security threats and explain the need to implement a comprehensive security policy to mitigate the threats

l  Explain general methods to mitigate common security threats to network devices, hosts, and applications

l  Describe the functions of common security appliances and applications

l  Describe security recommended practices including initial steps to secure network devices 

Configure, verify, and troubleshoot basic router operation and routing on Cisco devices.

l  Implement basic router security 

Implement, verify, and troubleshoot NAT and ACLs in a medium-size Enterprise branch office network.

l  Describe the purpose and types of ACLs

l  Configure and apply ACLs based on network filtering requirements.(including: CLI/SDM)

l  Configure and apply an ACLs to limit telnet and SSH access to the router using (including: SDM/CLI)

l  Verify and monitor ACLs in a network environment

l  Troubleshoot ACL issues

Johnson & Johnson wraps up buy of China’s Dabao

Posted on August 1st, 2008 in News, World by

Bottles of Johnson’s baby shampoo are on display in a store in New York in this file photo. (AP Photo)

Johnson & Johnson has bought top Chinese cosmetics firm Beijing Dabao, the firm said on Wednesday, wrapping up a deal estimated at more than $300 million and aimed at expanding the US giant’s shares in the Chinese market.

Johnson & Johnson, which vies with the likes of Unilever to sell cosmetics and healthcare products to a retail consumer market growing at double digits annually, won a bidding war with Avon and Unilever and will pay 2.3 billion yuan ($337 million) for Dabao.

The US firm did not disclose the financial terms for the completed acquisition on Wednesday.

China’s fragmented cosmetics and healthcare market hosts more than 3,500 distinct brands, local newspapers have reported.

But global consumer and healthcare product firms such as Procter & Gamble are nonetheless pondering acquisitions in China to shore up and expand market share, with rip-roaring economic growth creating a newly monied middle class.

Underscoring the market’s attraction, L’Oreal bought popular local brands Mini Nurse and Yue Sai in 2004.

Dabao, a firm owned by the Beijing Sanlu Factory, cranks out a variety of self-branded, herbal cosmetics from skin cream to hair products. It exports to more than 30 countries, including the United States and Japan, according to its Web site.

In 2006, the firm posted a meagre 41.7 million yuan ($6.1 million) of net profit on sales of 675.2 million.

McCain accuses Obama of playing politics with race

Posted on August 1st, 2008 in News, World by

Republican presidential candidate US Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) speaks at a town hall meeting at Reed High School on July 29, 2008 in Sparks, Nevada. Democrats Thursday accused a “desperate” John McCain of offering voters a paucity of hope, after the Republican invoked Britney Spears to damn Barack Obama as nothing more than a glitzy showman. (Agencies)

John McCain accused Barack Obama of playing politics with race on Thursday, raising the explosive issue after the first black candidate with a serious chance of winning the White House claimed Republicans will try to scare voters by saying he “doesn’t look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills.”

More cars could go off roads for cleaner air

Posted on August 1st, 2008 in China, News by

BEIJING, Aug. 1 — Another 10 percent Beijing vehicles will go off the roads if the weather is “extremely unfavorable” during the Olympic Games, the Ministry of Environmental Protection has said.

The traffic restriction already in force allows vehicles with even and odd license numbers to hit the roads only on alternate days, reducing them by half.

The emergency measure would make private cars whose last two license plate digits match the date (between August 8 and 24) to be off the roads. This could reduce the total number of private cars on the capital’s roads by 60 percent.

Other emergency steps include temporarily closing 105 more factories and stopping all construction work in the city. Another 56 factories in Olympic co-host city Tianjin and 61 in Hebei province will be closed, too.

Earlier, independent experts had suggested the environmental authorities take up to 90 percent cars off the roads if the air quality does not improve during the Games.

Zhu Tong, an environmentalist advising the city government, told the Beijing News yesterday: “Though the final emergency plan will not be as effective as the one in which 90 percent cars would have been banned, the government must have considered the interests of all sides.”

It’s not common for Beijing to experience sultry weather like it did last week, Zhu said.

But “our independent study shows Beijing’s long-term efforts have worked”.

Yesterday’s air pollution index (API) was 69, much healthier than what it was a couple of weeks ago, before the even-and-odd license plate number restriction was imposed. Wednesday’s API was even better at 44.

Airport gets ready for big days ahead

Posted on August 1st, 2008 in China, News by

BEIJING, Aug. 1 — Beijing will handle up to 1,500 flights and 260,000 passengers a day, the most its airport can cope with, in the run-up to and during the Olympic Games, Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) officials have said.

The challenge Beijing faces is evident from the fact that Athens handled 795 flights and 58,000 passengers on the eve of the 2004 Games’ opening.

Adding to the challenge is the threat of thunderstorms on Aug 8 and 9, according to a study based on the city’s decades-long weather data, said Huang Dengke, of the CAAC North China regional administration and in-charge of the airport’s Games time coordination.

But contingency plans are in place, with four airports in North China chosen to handle some of the flights if Beijing encounters bad weather or air traffic congestion, Huang said. The four airports are in Tianjin, Shijiazhuang, Taiyuan and Hohhot, and together they have 100 parking bays ready for emergency landings.

The CAAC has imposed a five-hour air traffic ban at the Beijing airport between 7 pm and midnight on Aug 8, the opening day of the Games, in line with the practice adopted by previous host cities, CAAC deputy head Yang Guoqing said.

The CAAC estimates that the busiest time for aviation and airport authorities will be between Aug 6 and 11, and peak on Aug 7.

The number of landings and take-offs will increase by 20 percent, compared with normal days, during the period, and the volume of passengers by 25 percent, Yang said.

To cope with the unprecedented increase in the number of flights and passengers, part of Terminal 3 will only receive Olympic guests, including more than 10,000 athletes. Terminal 3 is the world’s largest and was opened in March.

The newly built VIP terminals will handle special flights carrying 80 heads of state, and 160 chartered and 1,000 business flights.

Yang said the increase in the number of special flights will not disrupt ordinary passenger flights.

The CAAC has tightened security checks at airports since July 20 to foil any terrorist attack. It has been collaborating closely with other departments to verify and analyze information on possible terrorist threat, Yang said.

Some international terrorist groups, including the Eastern Turkistan Islamic Movement, have threatened to attack Olympic venues. Security officers in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region busted a terrorist plot to hijack a plane bound for Beijing this March.

But airport manager Zhang Zhihong said security forces are ready to deal with any eventuality. “We will ensure 100 percent security for the airport and the Games,” he told journalists at the airport.

Rapid Beijing-Tianjin train link opens on Friday

Posted on August 1st, 2008 in China, News by

Photo shows a Beijing-Tianjin high-speed train on its test run July 31, 2008. The new 350 kph train shortens the journey between the two cities to just 30 minutes. The Beijing-Tianjin high-speed railway will open on August 1, 2008. [Xinhua]

Photo shows a Beijing-Tianjin high-speed train on its test run July 31, 2008. The new 350 kph train shortens the journey between the two cities to just 30 minutes. The Beijing-Tianjin high-speed railway will open on August 1, 2008. [Xinhua]

A stewardess stands at the entrance to a Beijing-Tianjin high-speed train on its test run July 12, 2008. The new 350 kph train shortens the journey between the two cities to just 30 minutes. The Beijing-Tianjin high-speed railway will open on August 1, 2008. [Xinhua]

Photo taken from the inside of a Beijing-Tianjin high-speed train July 18, 2008. The new 350 kph train shortens the journey between the two cities to just 30 minutes. The Beijing-Tianjin high-speed railway will open on August 1, 2008. [Xinhua]

A stewardess displays the rotating chairs in a Beijing-Tianjin high-speed train on its test run July 17, 2008. The new 350 kph train shortens the journey between the two cities to just 30 minutes. The Beijing-Tianjin high-speed railway will open on August 1, 2008. [Xinhua]

BEIJING, July 31 (Xinhua) — Rail fans and passengers queued upon Thursday morning to buy tickets for Friday’s debut of the world’s fastest intercity rail line linking Beijing with Olympic co-host city Tianjin.

Tickets were available at the Beijing Railway Station, the Beijing West Railway Station and other ticket outlets. But at the Beijing South Railway Station, where the first train would leave from, ticket sales were expected to start later on Thursday, station staff told Xinhua.

The Ministry of Railways (MOR) announced on Wednesday this ultra-modern line would go into service on Aug. 1, one week before the Games begin.

The first train would leave the Beijing South Railway Station at about 11 a.m. after an official launch ceremony, the Beijing Times reported.

After regular service begins on Aug. 2, the first train would leave Beijing for Tianjin at 6:15 a.m., according to a time schedule provided by the Beijing South Railway Station. Twenty minutes later, another train would leave the Tianjin Station for Beijing.

The final train would leave Beijing for Tianjin at 10:10 p.m. while in Tianjin, the final train would depart at 10:06.

During regular services, there would be 47 pairs of trains every day. Trains bound for Tianjin would leave at various intervals of 15, 20 and 30 minutes.

A first-class ticket costs 69 yuan while the price for a second-class ticket is 58 yuan, Vice Railway Minister Wang Zhiguo told a press conference. Fares would be unchanged in the first year of operation.

The line would be the world’s only line on which passenger trains could run at 350 km per hour, Wang said. It would also be the first high-speed intercity rail line in China.

The railway, on which construction started in July 2005, was built at a total cost of 21.5 billion yuan (3.1 billion U.S. dollars), said Wang.

About 100 km of the line, or 86 percent, was built on an elevated alignment because of the area’s alluvial soil, which was sensitive to ground settlement.

The new service would cut the 120-km journey from the current 70 minutes to about 30 minutes, according to Wang. There are five stations along the line: the cavernous new Beijing South Railway Station, Yizhuang, Yongle, Wuqing and Tianjin.

The train is classified by the MOR as C-category, with C standing for Chengji, meaning intercity.

There will be 10 trains of eight cars that can seat about 600 passengers. These sleek trains, with aircraft-like cabins, swivel seats, spacious interiors and rooftop solar panels, were built by the Sifang Locomotive and Rolling Stock Company.

Called the CRH-3 (China Railway High-speed), these were China’s first self-designed and self-manufactured passenger trains.

The MOR had said about 26 million passengers traveled between the two cities every year, and this new line was forecast to raise the figure to 32 million in 2008.

Wang said more trains would be put into service in the future as the signal system allowed trains at minimum intervals of three minutes.

At least three kinds of trains already run between the two cities.

D-category trains run at 200 to 250 km per hour and take 70 minutes. Passengers pay 51 yuan for a first-class seat and 42 yuan for a second-class seat.

K-category trains run slower and take 100 minutes. The maximum fare is 20 yuan.

A third category runs only during major holidays, such as the Lunar New Year, and supplements regular services

CCNA Study Guide Chapter 9

Posted on August 1st, 2008 in CCNA, Cisco, PASS4SIDE by

Describe how a network works.

l  Describe the impact of applications (Voice Over IP and Video Over IP) on a network

Configure, verify and troubleshoot a switch with VLANs and interswitch communications.

l  Verify network status and switch operation using basic utilities (including: ping, traceroute, telnet, SSH, arp, ipconfig), SHOW & DEBUG commands

l  Identify, prescribe, and resolve common switched network media issues, configuration issues, auto negotiation, and switch hardware failures

l  Describe enhanced switching technologies (including: VTP, RSTP, VLAN, PVSTP, 802.1q)

l  Describe how VLANs create logically separate networks and the need for routing between them

l  Configure, verify, and troubleshoot VLANs

l  Configure, verify, and troubleshoot trunking on Cisco switches

l  Configure, verify, and troubleshoot interVLAN routing

l  Configure, verify, and troubleshoot VTP

l  Configure, verify, and troubleshoot RSTP operation

l  Interpret the output of various show and debug commands to verify the operational status of a Cisco switched network.

l  Implement basic switch security (including: port security, trunk access, management vlan other than vlan1, etc.)

Catalyst 1900 Password Recovery

Posted on August 1st, 2008 in Cisco by

Description

This document descripts how to perform a password recovery on the following switches:

  • Cisco Catalyst 1700
  • Cisco Catalyst 1900
  • Cisco Catalyst 2100
  • Cisco Catalyst 2800
  • Cisco Catalyst 2820

Step-by-Step Procedure

Check the boot firmware version number from the Systems Engineering menu. If the firmware is 1.10 or later, the continue through this document. For older firmwares, please contact Cisco to recover the password.

Clearing the Password

  1. Power-cycle the switch.After POST completes, the following prompt displays:

    Do you wish to clear the passwords? [Y]es or [N]o:

    Note: You have ten seconds to respond. If you don’t respond within that time, the Management Console Logon screen displays. You cannot change this waiting period.

  2. Enter [Y]es to delete the existing password from nonvolatile RAM (NVRAM).Note: If you type [N]o, the existing password remains valid.
  3. Assign a password from the switch management interfaces (management console or command line interface (CLI)).

Viewing the Password

For firmware versions between 1.10 and 3.02, you can view the password you are trying to recover (instead of clearing it as described in the previous section).

  1. Access the diagnostic console. 
    1. Press and hold the Mode button.
    2. Power-cycle the switch.
    3. Release the Mode button one or two seconds after the LED above port 1x goes off.You will see the following logon screen:
      ----------------------------------------
      Cisco Systems Diagnostic Console
      Copyright(c) Cisco Systems, Inc. 1999
      All rights reserved.
      
      Ethernet Address: 00-E0-1E-7E-B4-40
      -----------------------------------------
    4. Press Enter to continue. 
  2. Press Enter and select the [S] option on the Diagnostic Console - Systems Engineering Menu, and then select the [V] option on the Diagnostic Console - System Debug Interface Menu to display the management console password. 
  3. If you want to change the password, select the [M] option on the Console Settings Menu.