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A Humble Leader

“I was working at PNGBC Kavieng as the customer service officer, when an elderly gentlemen came to the counter, asking to cash his cheque. This happened in 1996/7.  He presented his cheque and upon seeing the amount I advised him to sign on the back of the cheque. I then, advised him that I would get my bank manager to sign with me and "would he please go and join the line, until the bank teller called him to collect his cash." He graciously said, "Yes." With a big smile on his face (he was actually beaming), he went and stood in line.  I took the cheque and went to get my managers signature of approval. The manager upon seeing the signature on the cheque asked me, "Who brought this cheque in? And did he sign it in front of you?" I pointed to the gentlemen in the line and said, "Yes, he signed in front of me." The manager then asked, "Do you know who he is?" I replied, "No. Should I?" He proceeded to sign the cheque and then, ...

Telecoms: 802.1Q and Trunking 101

This is a quick tutorial on 802.1q tagging and trunking that I've found to be very useful. The commands that can be used to configure the switches are below: >en #conf t #int fa0/1 #switchport mode access #switchport access vlan 2 #exit #int fa0/2 #switchport mode access #switchport mode access #switchport access vlan 3 #exit #int fa0/24 #switchport mode trunk #exit Set static IP addresses on the PC as follows PC1: 10.0.0.1 PC2: 20.0.0.2 PC3: 10.0.0.3 PC4: 20.0.0.4 My packet tracer file can be found here