How to make DVD-ROM

In my quest to make DVD gifts I came across lots of problems. The link above talks about many of my problems and how to solve them.

If you are into burning DVD's you should read it!

DVD cover template for Publisher 2007

In case you ever need to make DVD covers with Microsoft Publisher 2007 (part of Office 2007) you can use this template to make covers.

The template is self-explained.

Good luck!

Web Developer Toolbar in IE

From time to time we are all curious on how other people do their web design. Unfortunately it is not always easy to read the code and find what you need.

Are there anything we can do about this?

Yes it is! I believe there are many tools out there that can assist you. I have looked into two tools that I found interesting.

IE WebDeveloper	US$115 (non-commercial).
Microsoft Developer Toolbar	Freeware.

IE WebDeveloper

This is the tool from the same guys that gave you HTTP Analyzer. I have talked about this tool in a previous article.

Anyway. After I installed this tool Internet Explorer started to crash all the time. But from what I could see it seems like a good product - easy to find the information you are looking for.

Developer Toolbar

Given it's price it is priceless. Not as good to work with, seems to lack some features in WebDeveloper. But given the price this is what I am going to use.

Shr Dispute in Cisco switches

I did some tests on some Cisco switches the other day and came across an error I have not seen before. Then I looked into a port's spanning tree I found a port was blocking with the message Dispute Shr. I have not seen this message before and could not find anything when I tried to Google on it.

nede#sho span int g0/1

Mst Instance Role Sts Cost Prio.Nbr Type
---------------- ---- --- --------- --------
MST0 Desg BLK 2000000 128.1 Dispute Shr
 

So I had to investigate this. Luckily for me Cisco have very good documentation. In an article discussing something I found the answer I was looking for.

A dispute flag appears when a designated port receives inferior designated information until the port returns to the forwarding state or ceases to be designated.

The Shr simply indicates that the port is on a shared network. The reason for that is that the link is half duplex.