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Lets be honest, there are many things that Cisco does well, and some things that Cisco doesn’t do well. Somebody once said that being a successful company is to do more good things than bad. For me, one area that is becoming a bigger and bigger design problem is the price on Cisco products. Recently [...]
Collection of useful, relevant or inane places on the the Internets for 19th Oct:
Define Firewall
Define ABC – Anything But Cisco
I have been looking at e-reader’s with a beady eye. Who wouldn’t rather have a small, portable gizmo instead of the 2.2 kilogram textbook of Routing TCP/IP Volume II.
But there are really two HUGE problems that mean I won’t be buying one anytime soon. DRM and Data portability.
Define Temperature Excursion
Collection of useful, relevant or inane places on the the Internets for 8th Oct:
FibreChannel over Ethernet (FCoE) is coming to your data centre. The problem is that FCoE doesn’t work properly on ordinary ethernet switches. What do I mean by “properly” ? We need new standards to let it reach its potential but there are too many acronyms.
Define “Backhoe Attentuation”
While it may be a personal preference for me, I believe that you should only use the mouse when you don’t know what are doing. If you have a repetitive task, then clicking the same thing over and over shows that you are poor engineer. Lets hack putty to work from the command line.
