Collection of useful, relevant or inane places on the the Internets for 19th Oct:

• High Performance Web Sites :: Business impact of high performance – Fascinating insights into how making a website go faster using appliances for application acceleration improves the bottom line.
• BOFH: Baitin’ switch • The Register – "You don't have a switch replacement policy?"

  "Of course we do," I say. "If it's on fire it can go on next year’s replacement schedule!"

• Ali Abbas » Cisco IOS Tips – cache running-configuration – Ali Abbas points a good tip on making the 'show run' command go a lot faster using a parser command.

  Good tip.

• evilrouters.net » Blog Archive » New Cisco ISR G2 routers (slides) – Jeremy posts some material that appeared temporarily on Cisco's web site about upcoming ISR3900 routers. Interesting details about no more console cables, and new module types. Worth a read.
• Cisco IOS hints and tricks: Fantastic DDoS protection: it’s getting worse – Ivan Pepelnjak reminds that not everything you read is true. Especially when a journalist writes on technical issues. 

In this case he has researched to source to show it is utter bunk to achieve DDoS in less than 6ns.