Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog: Openness Is Not Enough

Nick Carr is so clever:
“But in this early stage of the cloud’s devel­op­ment, open­ness means little to the buyer (or user). The buy­ers, par­tic­u­larly those in big com­pan­ies, are nervous about the cloud even as they are becom­ing increas­ingly eager to reap the bene­fits the cloud can provide. What they care about right now is […]

Top 4 Things IPexpert Will Say About Internetwork Expert CCIE 2.0 Announcement

Here are the Top 4 things IPExpert will say about yes­ter­days announce­ment by InternetExpert. -> Warning  —  con­tains sarcasm.

Nerdgasm: Laptop Art — Gotta Have Some

I have art­work on my laptop. It’s my way of stick­ing it to cor­por­ate cul­ture. Sit down in busi­ness meet­ing with a laptop of bright col­ours  —  looks of envy! Make the world a happy place.

Top 5 Things About Cisco “Viral” Announcement

Here is my take on the Top 5 things about the Cisco announce­ment today

Top 5 Things That Internetwork Expert Might Announce Today.

My top five list of things that IE might announce later today

Windows Azure Signals Start of Misty Computing — Microsoft Will Always Sell to the Enterprise

Everyone is con­grat­u­lat­ing Microsoft for their new Cloud Computer thingie — Azure. All I see is pub­lic beta for Corporate Cloud Service.

Opinion: Morality Is Not a Group Effort — GigaOM

Om Malik talks about cor­por­ate mor­als, and reminds us that we, alone, are respons­ible for our actions. A topic close to my own heart. Please read and con­sider the thoughts and inten­tion of this art­icle. Happy Diwali.
Opinion: Morality Is Not a Group Effort  —  GigaOM: “”

Fundraising Update Oct 2008

We have now raised GBP£45 for Wynstones School Hall. Thankyou for your help.

Dear Cisco, Stop the Lame “Meme” Marketing — It Sucks.….badly

Dear Cisco, Have you sud­denly hired too many mar­ket­ing people ?

Network Dictionary — Pain Relief Technology

This Post is Part of a Series  —  click for list on Network Dictionary» Pain Relief Technology  —  term used to describe cer­tain products or tech­no­lo­gies that are typ­ic­ally only under­stood, or per­ceived as use­ful, when you have a prob­lem. When used, they ‘relieve the pain’.
List of Posts in this series:Network Dictionary  —  FreelanceNetwork Dictionary  —  Resume Generating EventsNetwork Dictionary  —  ScalableNetwork Dictionary  —  magic hand wave­N­et­work Dictionary  —  NAT’dNetwork Dictionary  —  Pain Relief […]

Internets of Interest: 28^th Oct

Real CCIE’s, Real People Scholarship | Internetwork Expert

Real CCIE’s, Real People Scholarship | Internetwork Expert: “”
Now that’s sup­port­ing the com­munity and put­ting some­thing back. Best of luck to all hope­ful Mendicants.
(Via CCIE Pursuit.)

CCIE Water Cooler Gossip: Tolly’s Review of IPexpert vs. Internetwork Expert CCIE Labs | NetworkWorld​.Com Community

The online bitch-​​​​slapping-​​​​fest between IPexpert and Internetwork Expert has reached a rather fevered pitch after Brad Reese spewed up the biggest troll post I have seen in years.
There seems to be a lot of ego, a lot of his­tory, and air­ing of dirty laun­dry going on here. It not pretty for any­one involved, and frankly, as a cus­tomer its not […]

Foundry Postpones Vote on Brocade Deal, Stock Plunges  — Network World

The path to FCoE is not run­ning smoothly is it?

More Racks From InternetExpert — Better Time Slots

Internetwork Expert has announced more lab racks com­ing online in November. Most import­ant is the new time slots which recog­nise that not every cus­tomer lives in America and will suit more cus­tom­ers globally.

Rant: SecureCRT — Too Expensive — Alternatives Putty, Tera Term ?

SecureCRT is a com­mon choice for SSH Client for MS Windows. I want to buy SecureCRT but its too expens­ive. Way too expens­ive. Or is it just me ?

Internets of Interest: 23^rd Oct

Network Dictionary — NAT’D

This Post is Part of a Series  —  click for list on Network Dictionary» NAT’d  —  when indic­at­ing that a flow has under­gone Network Address Translation, abbre­vi­ated as NAT, it is NAT’d.
List of Posts in this series:Network Dictionary  —  FreelanceNetwork Dictionary  —  Resume Generating EventsNetwork Dictionary  —  ScalableNetwork Dictionary  —  magic hand wave­N­et­work Dictionary  —  NAT’dNetwork Dictionary  —  Pain Relief TechnologyNetwork Dictionary  —  work­shopNetwork Dictionary  —  Process HumpingNetwork Dictionary  —  appsel­la­tionNetwork Dictionary  —  Spinning RustNetwork Dictionary  —  Server HuggerNetwork Dictionary  —  FacepalmNetwork Dictionary  —  NortardNetwork Dictionary  —  CiscotistNetwork Dictionary  —  long­hornNetwork Dictionary  —  IEEEdiotNetwork […]

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