August 2010 – Darwin Mach

By Darwin Mach on News, Tech Tips, Tutorials tagged barryware, cfe, cisco, dd-wrt, e2000, e3000, firmware, linksys, LOM, router, upgradewith 31 Comments

Upgrade Your Linksys Router, Literally!

Cisco-Linksys decided to release new routers for their home routers: the “Valet” series and the “E” series. After doing some research, they’re actually just a re-branding of the older models. The only difference is that the “E” series now have double the amount of NVRAM available. In this article, we’ll be looking at the new E2000 and E3000 routers.

The E2000 is actually the WRT320N with a working reset button and E3000 is the new WRT610N v2. But that doesn’t that mean you have to ditch your current router if you own one of these already, especially just to get the extra 32k of NVRAM. You can actually update the CFE of the older model and transform your WRT320N or WRT610N v2 into the E2000 or E3000 respectively. The CFE is basically the BIOS of the router.

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By Darwin Mach on Tech Tips, Tutorials tagged acrobat, adobe, deploy, install, installer, integrated, msi, msp, patch, professional, slipstream, windowswith 6 Comments

“Slipstream” Adobe Acrobat Pro Updates

Seems like one of those really annoying things out there is deploying an installation of Adobe Acrobat Pro with all (or most) of the updates at once. Of course, this pertains to the Windows version. After doing some intense research and looking through the bits and pieces if suggestions that are out there, I found a much easier way to integrate all the updates into one package.

This one is tricky, you can’t just use the traditional method of running msiexec with the /p parameter and patch over the MSI. What makes it worse is that certain updates can’t be slip streamed or they will prevent future updates from being applied. One can only imagine the headaches that can come out of trying to deploy this without having to install the numerous patches after.

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By Darwin Mach on Information Security, Tutorials tagged active, certificate, directory, logon, pki, smartcard- Leave a comment

Enabling Smartcard Logon for Active Directory

Since I couldn’t find an all-in-one guide anywhere out there, I’m going to write up a short post on how to enable smart card logon in a Microsoft Active Directory environment.

It’s short since I’m a little bit lazy in documenting every step (these are mainly notes for myself), but if enough people request, I’ll expand this post to include more details.

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