Network Dictionary — Acronyminy

acronym­iny  —  (akkro  —  nim  —  ih  —  nee)
The dis­join­ted sen­sa­tion of know­ing what an acronym means, but not remem­ber­ing the exact words because you have used it so often you no longer think of it as an abbre­vi­ation.
aka, “What does the acronym OSPF stand for ? Uh, pro­tocol 89, uses mul­tic­ast on a broad­cast net­works, has 5 mes­sage types, class­less rout­ing pro­tocol ”
“I can’t […]

Algoryhme by Radia Perlman

Radia Perlman penned this poem while she developed Spanning Tree.

Blessay: IT Training Lessons From the Olympics

While the cur­rent Olympics is about as inter­est­ing as review­ing fire­wall rules, the cur­rent suc­cess of first world nations shows that money CAN buy you suc­cess. I’m hop­ing IT Managers can learn train­ing les­sons from this.

Rant:New Logos ? Tasteless Rubbish

When I first heard about the logos, I thought, fair enough. Now I have had a closer look, and taken a few days to think about it — they are rubbish.

How to Make a Network Cable — wikiHow

Found this guide, which is well done. Everyone who works in net­work­ing should make a cable at least once to under­stand. It builds tol­er­ance of the cabling guys.
How to Make a Network Cable  —  wikiHow

Network Dictionary — Assonance

Assonance

Bob Cringely — CCIE:the Leading Men — Judge Economic Progress

Bob Cringely ana­lyses GDP per CCIE in a coun­try to judge their future eco­nomic pro­gress. Who cares about the inform­a­tion, this is a huge push for our CCIE cer­ti­fic­a­tion. Folks, time to think about ask­ing for a raise!

Network Dictionary — Pontificate

Pontificate  —  To express opin­ions or judg­ments in a pom­pous way.
I use this word when I am writ­ing some­thing where its mostly my opin­ion rather than fac­tual or sub­stan­ti­ated. This reminds me to be humble and gentle, not every­one cares about my opinion.

OSX:Punditry — Four Options From Apple in September — Unexpected!

I am hold­ing on to some cash, wait­ing for Apple to make their September udpates. Here are my pre­dic­tions for what they will release, and why.

Enterprise Cloud Computing — Build Your Own With Cisco VFrame — Why Wait ?

I can see some value in external Cloud Computing, but why not just build your own with Cisco ? Take a bunch of leftover machines, that old stor­age sys­tem and get a demo ver­sion and make your own.

My Proposed Code of Blogging Ethics — Updated

I put some more thought into eth­ics and have updated the list. A part of eth­ics is to make me check myself before I say some­thing stu­pid when I am writing.

Network Dictionary — Mensch

Someone to admire and emu­late, someone of noble char­ac­ter. The key to being “a real mensch” is noth­ing less than char­ac­ter, rectitude, dig­nity, a sense of what is right, respons­ible, dec­or­ous.
As described by Guy Kawasaki How to be a Mensch.

OSX: Tools — Webkit as Web Browser

My pre­ferred browser on OS X is to use Web Kit. Lets have a quick over­view and some logic.

OS X:Why It “Looks” So Different.

When you first eye­ball OS X, I mean, really, actu­ally look at it and use it for a bit, you real­ise that it looks dif­fer­ent. During some read­ing, I found out why.

What Is a ‘Free’ or ‘Unattached’ CCIE Number or Status ?

If you have never worked for a Cisco reseller, you may not know about this vital pro­ced­ure of “attach­ing” your CCIE status to the reseller.

Upgraded to 320GB HDD in My MacBook Pro

I just upgraded the disk drive in my Mac Book to 320 GB (from 160Gb) and it could not have been easier.
I can’t believe how simple this was using Mac OS X. No restore or data migra­tion, just a simple backup and then install the drive. Boot and back in business.…..

IOS: Setting the TCP Timeout on IOS

One of my favour­ite default com­mands on IOS is “ip tcp syn­wait 5″. Lets look into this com­mand and why you might like to use it as well.

Rant: I Loathe Voicemail, Its Disruptive and Inefficient

Its hard to describe how dis­rupt­ive voice mail can be to an organ­ised engin­eer­ing day. The idea that someone can leave a mes­sage which requires me to under­take a fur­ther action (usu­ally without con­firm­a­tion) is ana­thema to being organ­ised and get­ting things done.

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