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Emails and a Register article confirm that Checkpoint will buy the Nokia hardware appliance business. Some thoughts and opinions on why its time to ditch your Checkpoint infrastructure.
I have been going over the year and picked out some of my personal favourites as well as some of the most popular posts this year.
Marketing is a world of it’s own, where the rules of honesty, math, logic, and humanity do not apply. The ultimate example of this is marketing math when calculating bandwidth.
I have been waiting all year for new products, new features and, in some cases, for things to just work. It seems time to think what presents a Cisco Santa could bring me.
There are many fine words in the english language, and many fine words in the Network Engineers dictionary, however none of them has the amount of cachet and elan that ìfooî can bring to your profession. Examples of using foo – As a verb – foo-m – “then the router went foom and we were [...]
A workmate expressed surprise when he saw ASDM working natively on my MAC today. Which made me think, maybe you didn’t know either. And I took a photo to prove it.
IEEEdiot ( ay-eeeee-dee-ot) is a term used to describe someone who believes that IEEE Ethernet standards process is valuable and contributing to the successful development of ethernet. Historically, the IEEE has been worse than laggardly in updating the standard, reluctant to move quickly, and lacking in transparency. Recent attempts to improve processes have made some [...]
Longhorn – noun. To announce a product that isn’t ready for release. In practice, possibly years away. Derived from Microsoft announcing ‘Longhorn’ four or five years before it shipped, thus ensuring that customers did not consider Linux while waiting. Eventually shipped Vista which was a failure. By longhorning a product announcement, large companies ensure that [...]
