Internets of Interest:28^th Oct 09-​​1^st Nov 09

Collection of use­ful, rel­ev­ant or inane places on the the Internets for 1^st Nov 09:

• Welcome to the CCIE Study Wiki! — CCIE Study Wiki — 

Outstanding piece of work from Paul Gu. An amaz­ing wiki full of his CCIE study notes and resources. A must read for all cur­rent and future CCIE R&S people.

• Why FCoE is Not the Solution « Xsigo Virtual I/​O Blog — 

A good piece of Xsigo on why FCoE isn’t the ballgown that is going to take us to the dance. 

It’s a nice access­ory, maybe a bangle or even a neck­lace but it isn’t the most import­ant thing that we need to make a suc­cess of the upcom­ing Data Centre evolution.

• Cisco Catalyst 6500 Architecture White Paper [Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Switches] — Cisco Systems — 

White paper cov­er­ing a lot of use­ful inform­a­tion on the much loved but very old C6500 plat­form. If you own C6500’s you should know this already. If you don’t, it’s time to learn some­thing, it’s a lot more com­plic­ated than you think.

• Syslog Summary Scripts — Collection of Perl scripts from Netscraftsmen​.net that will sum­mar­ise sys­logs into use­ful inform­a­tion for a daily check of how your net­work is doing. This is really use­ful at a prac­tical level. 

  Cisco Messages:
  18 LINEPROTO-​​5-​​UPDOWN
  9 OSPF-​​5-​​ADJCHG
  7 SNMP-​​3-​​AUTHFAIL
  2 BGP-​​5-​​ADJCHANGE
  2 LINK-​​3-​​UPDOWN

  Messages sor­ted by fre­quency and source device:

  8 d04-​​3550 – 03 d04-​​3550 – 03 LINEPROTO-​​5-​​UPDOWN FastEthernet0/​13
  4 d19-​​3400 – 01 d19-​​3400 – 01 LINEPROTO-​​5-​​UPDOWN FastEthernet0/​19
  2 d02-​​2811 – 01 d02-​​2811 – 01 SNMP-​​3-​​AUTHFAIL
  2 d03-​​2811 – 01 d03-​​2811 – 01 SNMP-​​3-​​AUTHFAIL
  2 d45-​​3560 – 01 d45-​​3560 – 01 LINEPROTO-​​5-​​UPDOWN GigabitEthernet0/​17
  2 d19-​​3400 – 01 d19-​​3400 – 01 LINK-​​3-​​UPDOWN FastEthernet0/​19
  2 d48-​​7604 – 01 d48-​​7604 – 01 OSPF-​​5-​​ADJCHG
  2 d64-​​3550 – 05 d64-​​3550 – 05 LINEPROTO-​​5-​​UPDOWN FastEthernet0/​2

• Shark Mauls Great White: Fears In Australia After Shark Bitten Off Stradbroke Island, Near Brisbane | World News | Sky News — <blockquote>A stun­ning pic­ture shows a 10ft pred­ator thrash­ing about with two massive chunks miss­ing on either side of its body, off the Queensland coast.

  Experts said its rival may be 20ft (about six metres) long, judging by the size of the huge bites.</blockquote>

I used to swim on this beach a lot as a younger man. While this is a bit unusual, the sharks were well known, and we saw them all the time. You get used to it.

• Microsoft’s res­ults: online, it’s los­ing more money than before | Technology | guard​ian​.co​.uk — <blockquote>
But what about the Online Services divi­sion? Different story. $490m rev­enue — which is down from $520m in the same period last year — and losses of $480m, an increase against last year’s $381m loss.

  In other words, for every $1 that Microsoft’s online ser­vices divi­sion brought in, it spent $2.
</blockquote>

Your licens­ing dol­lars are being well spent by Microsoft. 

When I sit across the table from Microsoft rep­res­ent­at­ives and they pitch their new products, you can see, that no one really believes a word they say. Does Microsoft have any cred­ib­il­ity at all ? Momentum, yes, cred­ib­il­ity, not really.

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