Tuesday, March 16, 2010

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? : 6200net​works​.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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2 Responses to “Internets of Interest: 25th Apr — 28th Apr”
  1. Sean says:

    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

    • Greg Ferro says:

      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.

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