17th May 2012

Internets of Interest for 29th February 2012

Collection of useful, relevant or just fun places on the Internets for 29th February 2012 and a bit commentary about what I’ve found interesting about them: From the Experts: Cloud Computing’s Hidden Export Regulation Risks – Article from law.com talking about the fact that using ‘blah blah cloud’ can be classed as an export under [...]

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OSX:Creating a DuckDuckGo Search From Launch Bar

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Tip on configuring LaunchBar to add DuckDuckGo to your search templates. Because DuckDuckGo is better than Google search for me.

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Network Dictionary – Security Feasance

I’ve often used the word malfeasance when writing security papers but today I learned that many forms “feasance:

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Comment: John Chambers on Why Cisco Never Bought Skype — GigaOm

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This article made me laugh. John Chambers is trying to rewrite history here.

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Comment: Juniper Acquiring Mykonos Software

Couple of days back, Juniper announced acquisition of Mykonos Software. After reviewing the web site I find that I’m interested in this acquisition as signal of change.

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Predicting What Will Be Big in 2012 – Part 1

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Following from my predictions on what WILL NOT be big in 2012, finally, my predictions for 2012. Not early, but hey, the future never arrives on time anyway.

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Poster: Cloud Kittens

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Because Cloud Computing wouldn’t kill just ONE kitten at a time.

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EIGRP – Auto Summary

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I’ve been revising some EIGRP and it seems that a lot of what I used to know, I don’t know. Or maybe I didn’t know it the first time. Here, I’m just fiddling with EIGRP and the auto-summary command.

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A Rolling Upgrade Strategy, Apple OSX and Cloud Infrastructure

One point that was buried in the Apple’s Mountain Lion updates this week is that Apple is shifting to a yearly update model for OSX. Think about that in a corporate environment. Yes, it’s another piece on change management.

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Network Dictionary – SR-IOV

Define Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV)

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