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Internets of Interest: 28th May

28 May 2009 By bookmarks 2 Comments

Collection of useful, relevant or inane places on the the Internets for 28th May:

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Design:Choosing Firefox for IE6 Compatibility

21 May 2009 By Greg Ferro Leave a Comment

Recent discussions about legacy software requiring IE6 means that we will deploy Firefox instead of Internet Explorer.

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Internets of Interest: 20th May

20 May 2009 By bookmarks Leave a Comment

Collection of useful, relevant or inane places on the the Internets for 20th May:

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Blog:Geek Pride – I’m So Proud of My Twitter Followers

15 May 2009 By Greg Ferro Leave a Comment
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Proud that my twitter followers are Cisco geeks!

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OS X:Terminal Break for Serial Console on OS X

15 May 2009 By Greg Ferro 5 Comments

A quick note on how to issue a terminal break character when using screen on OS-X.

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Internets of Interest: 13th May

15 May 2009 By bookmarks 3 Comments

Collection of useful, relevant or inane places on the the Internets for 13th May:

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Network Dictionary – Project Manager

12 May 2009 By Greg Ferro 1 Comment

Define “Project Manager”

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Rant: Buying From the USA – Ccbootcamp

12 May 2009 By Greg Ferro 6 Comments
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I went to buy a written study guide from ccbootcamp yesterday, cost USD$129, shipping USD$80. I guess business is too good for US companies.

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Network Dictionary – Slugged

11 May 2009 By Greg Ferro Leave a Comment
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Network Dictionary – IPocalypse

8 May 2009 By Greg Ferro 1 Comment

Definition:IPocalypse – noun – term used to describe the upcoming exhaustion of IPv4 addresses and the sign that hysteria will reach fever pitch, the known computering world will come to end.

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Internets of Interest: 8th May

8 May 2009 By bookmarks 4 Comments

Collection of useful, relevant or inane places on the the Internets for 8th May:

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Network Dictionary – Survivor’s Bias

7 May 2009 By Greg Ferro Leave a Comment
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Storage: Emulex Silicon Will Have iSCSI, TOE, FCoE, RDMA & iWarp in a Single Chip

5 May 2009 By Greg Ferro Leave a Comment

Buried in this article from the Register is aparagraph detailing Emulex Gen2 chip that does all storage virtualisation in a single chip. The FC boosters will be unhappy, they will have to compete.

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Reasons for Using NFS With VMware Virtual Infrastructure

4 May 2009 By Greg Ferro Leave a Comment

“A lot of companies are using NFS as the preferred protocol to shared storage for VMware Virtual Infrastructure. In my personal experience, The administrative options and convenience of NFS is unmatched, and the virtual machine (VM) performance is surprising.”

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Windows 7′S XP Mode – Needs BIOS Changes

4 May 2009 By Greg Ferro Leave a Comment

This Register article points out that the Windows XP emulation feature in Windows 7 needs virtualisation enabled in the BIOS on a supported CPU. Let me point out that changing the BIOS on eight thousand desktops isn’t going to be an option.

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Remove NoScript From Your Firefox – Here Is Why.

4 May 2009 By Greg Ferro 2 Comments

The developer of the popular NoScript addon for Firefox has moved to an ad-supported model to make money. This includes offering toolbars and whitelisting certain advertising sites.

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Microsoft OpenDocument Doesn’t REALLY Work

4 May 2009 By Greg Ferro Leave a Comment
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Microsoft continues to disappoint its customers. This time the loudly announced ODF support doesn’t appear to actually work.

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Internets of Interest: 1st May

1 May 2009 By bookmarks Leave a Comment

Collection of useful, relevant or inane places on the the Internets for 1st May:

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