Finally Color Management with Firefox 3

We can finally get our photos to look exactly how we the photographer intended to show them within the limits of your monitor and its calibration. This was previously not the case with a lot of browsers. Especially with Windows only browsers such as IE or Firefox 2.

What I am talking about is color profiles that a photographer uploads their photo in makes a lot of difference on how the colors of the photo come out on your computer screen. BUT only if you had either a image editor that could read the color profile and set the correct color or by Safari browser for Mac’s afaik.

But now you can display the same thing with the new Firefox 3 that just came out a few days ago. Here’s how you enable this feature.

Step 1:

Type about:config in Firefox 3’s address bar and press Return. The configuration settings will appear.

Step 2:

In the Filter field, type gfx.color The list of settings will shorten to show just those related to graphics, ie gfx.

Step 3:

If the Value for gfx.color_management.enabled is False, double-click anywhere on that line to toggle the setting to True.

Step 4:

Restart Firefox 3 and you’re in business.

You can confirm that colour management is working by viewing the photos on ICC Version 4 ready page here. If all four quadrants of the first photo are a seamless match, then colour management in your copy of Firefox is up and running.

The Great Null0

As I am studying for my CCNP exam I came across a good link explaining the advantages of using Null0 interface.

The basic use of Null0 interface is you prevent routing loops…Read here.

Ok firstly an example of routing loops.

take 2 networks, simple routing table

10.1.1.0/24 –> via 172.16.0.1
10.2.2.0/24 –> via 172.16.0.1
10.0.0.0/8 –> via null0

The summary route at the classful boundry in 10.0.0.0/8 routes from 10.1.1.0/8 and 10.2.2.0/8 will always take the /24 routes – because of the longest match rule

Now if the router sees traffic coming from 10.3.3.0/24, it will not match networks 10.1.1.0/24 or 10.2.2.0/24 as they have a specific entry saying go from 172.16.0.0.

For 10.3.3.0/24 instead will take it through the 10.0.0.0/8 as it does not match a longer specific route as the .1 and .2 networks. So the .3 networks goes through the 10.0.0.0/8 route which points to null0 and  since the network doesn’t know anything about 10.3.3.0/24 network it drops the traffic.

If the Null0 router was not in there as it was then your default route would pass on the traffic and the packets would bounce around between links(Hence the routing loop so to speak) until their TTL expires.

In addition you could use it to stop ip spoofing on you network by using the command:

Interface null0

no ip unreachable

The definition of ip unreachable is as follows:

Use the ip unreachables command to enable the router to send an ICMP unreachable message to the source if the router receives a packet that has an unrecognized protocol or no route to the destination address.

Use the no ip unreachables command to disable sending ICMP unreachable messages.

So as you can see if you do not want to reply to anyone trying to spoofing your network use the above command.

Oh also while we’r on this topic of Null0 you might as well use the following to stop all your internal IP’s from routing. Also you may want to add bogons to this list. Why do it with a static route to Null0 to stop these you say? Well sure you can do it with ACL as well. But doing it this way saves on CPU cycles.

ip classless
ip route 10.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 Null0
ip route 127.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 Null0
ip route 172.16.0.0 255.240.0.0 Null0
ip route 192.168.0.0 255.255.0.0 Null0

Login using Username without a password

There are two ways you can configure local usernames without a password:

• By using the username user command without the password option, you create a username that has a blank password (the operator has to press ENTER at the Password: prompt)
• With the username user nopassword command, you create a user where the operator will not be prompted for the password at all.

Although I wound only recommend this on a user with READ only permission on your router. Else this can be a security risk for obvious reasons.

BTW I found this tip here… Cisco IOS Hints page.

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