Internets of Interest: 28^th May

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

Design:Choosing Firefox for IE6 Compatibility

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

Internets of Interest: 20^th May

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

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

Proud that my twit­ter fol­low­ers are Cisco geeks!

OS X:Terminal Break for Serial Console on OS X

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

Internets of Interest: 13^th May

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

Network Dictionary — Project Manager

Define “Project Manager”

Rant: Buying From the USA — Ccbootcamp

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.

Network Dictionary — Slugged

This Post is Part of a Series  —  click for list on Network Dictionary» 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 Dictionary  —  fooN­et­work Dictionary  —  EtherealNetwork Dictionary  —  Signal SlopeNetwork Dictionary  —  lever­ageNetwork Dictionary  —  Microsoft StandardNetwork Dictionary  —  BrandalizeNetwork Dictionary  —  BlamestormingNetwork Dictionary  —  CCIE PoundsNetwork Dictionary  —  borked­Net­work Dictionary  —  tech­nobabbleNetwork Dictionary  —  MarkenautsNetwork […]

Network Dictionary — IPocalypse

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.

Internets of Interest: 8^th May

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

Network Dictionary —  Survivor’s Bias

This Post is Part of a Series  —  click for list on Network Dictionary» 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 Dictionary  —  fooN­et­work Dictionary  —  EtherealNetwork Dictionary  —  Signal SlopeNetwork Dictionary  —  lever­ageNetwork Dictionary  —  Microsoft StandardNetwork Dictionary  —  BrandalizeNetwork Dictionary  —  BlamestormingNetwork Dictionary  —  CCIE PoundsNetwork Dictionary  —  borked­Net­work Dictionary  —  tech­nobabbleNetwork Dictionary  —  MarkenautsNetwork […]

Storage: Emulex Silicon Will Have iSCSI, TOE, FCoE, RDMA & iWarp in a Single Chip

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.

Reasons for Using NFS With VMware Virtual Infrastructure

Windows 7’s XP Mode — Needs BIOS Changes

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.

Remove NoScript From Your Firefox — Here Is Why.

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.

Microsoft OpenDocument Doesn’t REALLY Work

Microsoft con­tin­ues to dis­ap­point its cus­tom­ers. This time the loudly announced ODF sup­port doesn’t appear to actu­ally work.

Internets of Interest: 1^st May

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