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November 1, 2006 at 20:42 · Filed under Uncategorized

I should be going to bed, but I noticed some items on my site that I wanted to comment on.

  1. Someone found my IEEE search tool useful, so much so that they blogged about it. That gives me a warm fuzzy feeling inside. Thank you, Jason.
  2. Someone not only read my post about Pat Haines, but also commented on it. Thank you, Megan Wanat.

It’s just different to see incoming traffic that isn’t anonymous or from people I know. And to those of you who I do know who continue to stop by, thank you.

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IEEE OUI search for Firefox 2

October 24, 2006 at 12:23 · Filed under Uncategorized

About a week ago I posted two search plugins, one of IEEE OUI and one for RCC. Now that I’ve taken the time to get Firefox 2, I noticed that there was a different way do search plugins. So, without further ado, you can download the IEEE OUI or RCC Search files.

http://blog.sean-ward.com/wp-content/uploads/blog.sean-ward.com/2006/10/rcc-search.xml

However, you can just go up to the search bar, and install it that way without having to download the files, browse to c:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\searchplugins and drag and drop, as I made sure to include the HTML code to allow autodiscovery. Mind you that if you have both of them installed already, they won’t appear in the search drop down menu.

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Search IEEE OUI Assignments

October 17, 2006 at 07:36 · Filed under Uncategorized

At work, we assist students with registering their computers on the network, as well as their gaming consoles. If I happen to be the one to register the gaming device, I tend to check the hardware address by doing a OUI at http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/oui/index.shtml. Even though the page is in my Firefox bookmark toolbar, I looked for a way to make the process more efficient. The only thing left to do, short of memorizing the entire listing, was cut down or eliminate the time it took wait for the page to load and place focus on the input box. I could only think of one way: make a Mozilla-Search plugin.

I was reminded of a search plugin a former employee, Joe, had made to search our website’s wiki installation. I doubt few people currently use it right now, but there it is. A quick Google search later, some testing, and I had a IEEE OUI search plugin ready to go.

To install the plugins:

  1. Extract the .src and .gif (or .png) files to the plugin directory, which is typically found in C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\searchplugins
  2. Close Firefox
  3. Open Firefox

To use the search features, the following are the most useful searches:

  • By hex value, e.g. 00-12-5a
  • By base 16, e.g. 00125a
  • By company, e.g. Microsoft

You can use this to search anything in the OUI listing, but those searches listed above give you the most important results.

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