Internets of Interest: 25th Apr — 28th Apr
April 28, 2009 by bookmarks · 2 Comments
Collection of useful, relevant or inane places on the the Internets for 28th Apr:
- TidBITS Safe Computing: Five Tips for Reading Mac Security Stories — Very good article about your security on MAC OS X. To date there are no major security threats that good practice and awareness could not solve. Just like MS Windows and an automobile, you must be responsible for your own security and care of your equipment.
Most of the recent scare stories on MAC security are repeats of previously known. I’m not running virus or malware software on my MAC and have no plans to do so with the current security status. And that’s a righteously joyous thing.
- Convert PDF to Word (DOC) — 100% Free! — Website that converts PDF files into Word documents .… for those moments when plagiarising vendor material is a part of preparing the business case for your design. — of course I would’nt do that, would I ?
- How fast can I go? : 6200networks.com — Joe Harris puts up a great post that brings together a lot information in oneplace and how big a frame or a packet it and what the impact on the bandwidth is for a given payload. I have been planning to write this for a while but never got it finished, now I don’t have to.
- Aaron’s Worthless Words ” Blog Archive ” The Most Random Things Can … — Aaron Conway tells a great war story about why a video camera is using up too much network bandwidth. Excellent writing and a good blog. Add it to your list.
- HP Virtual Connect Cookbook — 2.01 — because its so complicated.…. — For networking people who are being tortured by learning how to design and implement HP Virtual Connect, HP has released a Cookbook running through twenty odd scenarios for connectivity and options.
For the record, HP Virtual Connect makes my head hurt. It seems like a nonsense. Since I am also reading the Cisco — Project California UCS book, I can get a vision of the differences between Cisco and HP. They really do have fundamentally different approaches. I will save my opinion until I understand some more.
- Ian’s Shoelace Site — Shoe Lacing Methods — Who knew you could tie your shoelaces in thirty three different ways ? I like people with obsessions like this.
- Cisco SAFE Reference Guide — SAFE Overview [Design Zone for Security] — Cisco Systems — Cisco Security BU releases an updated SAFE Design Guide. For most designers, this is compulsory bed time reading.
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- CCIE>Blog_ / Find a Blog — IPExpert release their blogging “platform” for all of us to use.
- Security Configuration Guides — The American National Security Agency publishes some handy (if a bit simple) guides for securing a number of different things. Now while you could do a better job as a specialist task, these are very sueful starting points for a security review, especially is you are not strong on, say, MAC OS X.A fellow network blogger reminded me about this by posting, but I lost the source. Sorry.
- Apple — Get a Mac — Watch the TV Ads — Bean Counter — The latest Mac Advertisement -
- Is your network ready for Cloud Computing with Virtual Infrastructure 4? | Colin McNamara — CCIE 18233 , VCP, RHCE, GCIH, GEEK — Colin McNamara gives a solid view into the how the cloud is looking today using Cisco Nexus switches and VMware and points some very good points for the designer.
- Urban Dictionary: antidaephobia — What a fantastic word. “the fear that somewhere, somehow, a duck is watching you.“
Props to http://twitter.com/swelf for pointing it out.
- Have a look to my new OSI model t-shirt on TwitPic — Pello models his OSI model T-shirt. Funny!
- Cisco Product Quick Reference Guide Drop.io cpqrg2008 — Jeremy put the Cisco QRG on drop io for everyone
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Curious to hear your opinions on the Virtual Connect.
My server guys got me on the line with some techs from HP to talk about it. The guys from HP were insistent that it wasn’t a switch. “But it’s behaving like a switch” was my argument, “It’s just not managed like a switch.”
I finally got them to agree that “It’s a switch that’s been dumbed down so a server guy could understand it.”
Sean
I have the inklings for an article onn HP Virtual Connect. But, yes, if it barks like a dog, runs like a dog and smells like a dog, then it is probably a dog.
Actually, it reminds me a lot of the Bay Networks 5000 chassis, or the DEChub 900 backplane from a few years ago.