10th February 2012

Featured: Boston Tech Field Day

WOOT! It’s time for the Boston 2010 Tech Field Day. I get to argue with Cisco about FCoE. Hi Omar !!. Also, excuses and information about what’s happening for the next week or so at EtherealMind.

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Outbursts for 31 March 2010

evilrouters.net ª Blog Archive ª Authenticating Cisco Devices Against Active Directory via evilrouters.net Awesome. Simple but if you don’t know how it’s done, you need to watch this. Permalink | Leave a comment  » Cisco – we make toys too Linksys appears to be dead. And our favourite Corporate and Enterprise company now sells plastic toys. [...]

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Outbursts for 30 March 2010

Cisco "Announcing Breakthrough Innovations" for Data Centre ? YAWN Feeling underwhelmed already ? Or is that just me ?  The recent marketing failures from Cisco mean……..I’ll be washing my patch leads that day.  Top 5 Things About Cisco Says ìInternet to Change Foreverî Event Today - Etherealmind And for those of you who don’t remember Cisco CRS-3: Is [...]

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Best Technique for Date Formatting and the Global Problem – ISO8601

When working in a global company, a major problem is the way that some countries use the wrong date formatting. Say hello to ISO8601, standard for date formats.

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Cisco CRS-3 Motivational Marketing Poster

My new poster on the Cisco CRS-3 announcement.

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OSX: SuperDuper – The Other Backup Software

SuperDuper is the other backup program for OSX. It’s has one killer feature that Time Machine lacks.

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Outbursts for 29 March 2010

HP has a Cat6500 equivalent ? I was flipping through a HP ProCurve product thingie and saw this. Do they really think that they have a product that has the same feature set as the C6500 ? Or is that just marketing spin. Problem is, it’s quite difficult to find detailed information on the HP [...]

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Internets of Interest:27 Mar 10

Collection of useful, relevant or inane places on the the Internets for 27 Mar 10:

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OSX: Path Finder Review

It took me a while to get used to Path Finder. Now I can’t imagine using the OSX Finder at all.

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Poll: Do You Trust Cisco C3750 Switch in a Stack ?

Different people have different views on Cisco C3750 switches. Some people have had dreadful experiences with large number of failures and stacking problems. Other people have had none. Here is apoll to gauge how bad they are, or are not.

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