Screen Tearing / Vsync Problems on Desktop - Windows 8

Not posted in a while since starting out under my own steam as a freelancer. Hard work!!

Anyway,

I've noticed some screen tearing on my new rig - a Dell XPS 8700 with Geforce 650 Ti. This screen tearing is occurring simply on the desktop under normal use, normally when something is moving across the screen at an average pace. This is not occuring in Games, presumably as Vsync is doing it's job. But on the desk top... Pain in the ass!

So googled this for a while and came up a with a lot of people having the same problem but they were all on Windows 7 and had decided for one reason or another, to disable Windows Aero. Windows 8 doesn't have Aero so this was not my problem.

I played with the force V-sync settings in Nvidia Control panel. - no go.

Then I thought about my weird dual monitor setup and how most settings were unavailable for the secondary monitor (even though it's the Primary). I had windows set up to "duplicate displays" under the Screen Resolution control panel (Control Panel\Appearance and Personalization\Display\Screen Resolution or simply right click on the desktop -> Screen Resolution)

I set it back to "extend" instead of "duplicate" and the problem appears to have gone away!

Yay.

Showing SNMP Strings in a Cisco ASA

Hi Everyone. So... not a single post since October last year! Must try harder...

Trying to figure out what you have configured for an SNMP String on a Cisco ASA can be pain in the arse on ASA version 8 and up. (It looks like they are shown in plain text in versions 7 and earlier). You look at the running configuration


ASA# sh run | inc snmp

 snmp-server host INTERFACE 10.1.1.1 poll community ***** version 2c

 no snmp-server location
 no snmp-server contact
 snmp-server community *****
 snmp-server enable traps snmp authentication linkup linkdown coldstart

You think to yourself (or I do anyway) maybe its not shown in the running config but it is shown in the startup configuration;

ASA# sh start | inc snmp
 snmp-server host INTERFACE 10.1.1.1 poll community ***** version 2c
 no snmp-server location
 no snmp-server contact
 snmp-server community *****
 snmp-server enable traps snmp authentication linkup linkdown coldstart

Nope!

The trick is to simply access the running configuration at a file level to revel it's dirty SNMP secrets;

ASA# more system:running-config | inc snmp
 snmp-server host INTERFACE 10.1.1.1 poll community C0munit7Str1ng version 2c
 no snmp-server location
 no snmp-server contact
 snmp-server community C0munit7Str1ng 
 snmp-server enable traps snmp authentication linkup linkdown coldstart
ASA#

Kick Ass!