10th February 2012

Cisco Releases BETA IPSec VPN Client for Windows 7

I recently stated the Cisco IPsec VPN Client would have no future development. Cisco has released a Beta version for Windows 7 and looking for feedback from Windows users.

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Network Dictionary – Infrastructure

Deifne Network Infrastructure

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The Balloon Story

Quite some time ago, someone sent me this joke. To this day, it should be funny but it isn’t because it is still true.

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Site Performance – Mediatemple Unable to Fix

Apologies for site performance problems but MediaTemple are having “network problems”. Yet again. However, given that this is twelfth outage or performance problem this month (Sept 2009) , I no longer believe that they are telling the truth or that they know anything about computers. So far its been: Five storage failures, One DNS, Two [...]

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Syntax: VLANs or VLAN’s ?

Given that I write designs a lot, I get to write the word VLAN quite a bit. I’m still wondering which is the best way ?

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Network Diagrams: Tips for Printing From Visio

It seems that printing from Visio is not particularly obvious. So this post covers how I would print documents from A4 to A0 paper sizes and some tips on getting good results.

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Internets of Interest: 21st Sep

Collection of useful, relevant or inane places on the the Internets for 21st Sep:

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Putty – Recommended Default Settings for a Network Engineer

Article looks that the Default Settings for Putty, and makes recommendations for Network Engineers on different settings you should change.

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Network Dictionary – TACrathon

Define TACrathon

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Monolingual, OSX Leopard and Snow Leopard – Saving Space

I use Monolingual to save space on the MAC OSX. Quick word on how much space you can save and how to do it.

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