Review: How Close Was My Top5 on Cisco’s Viral Marketing for ASR9000

Couple of weeks ago I posted Top 5 things about Cisco’s Viral Marketing announcement. How did I do ? Read more

Domain Tasting Looking Dead - at Last ICANN Is Doing Something

ICANN posted today that AGP deletes are down 84% which means that abuse of the so-called “domain tasting” system is looking dead.

ICANN | AGP Deletes Down by 84%

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RANT:Cannot Copy Text From Product Quick Reference Guide. What ?

I attempted to copy some text from the CPQRG today only to find it is copy protected. Why ? Is it a secret ? Don’t we want to sell things anymore ? Read more

Rant:D-Link Hijacks Your Internets - in FIRMWARE

Ubersource points out the D-Link router/modem firmware forces you to go their website and receive spamvertising about security software. You have to login to the router, go Advanced and OPT OUT to stop this.

This is very poor practice. Opt-out is NEVER ACCEPTABLE, and using a piece of hardware that is fully paid for to perform the spam attack is disgusting.

No more D-Link for me. I trust Cisco has no plans for Linksys to do the same - this is a revolting form of upselling.

D-Link DIR-655 Firmware 1.21 Hijacks your Internets

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Why Rate Articles ?

I have introduced an article rating system at the bottom of each blog post. Why do I want to do this ?

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Number 1 Reason to Avoid Using the Cisco Learning Network | Cisco Study Blog

Brandon makes a good point about Cisco intervention in the Cisco Learning Network. In general, Cisco employees have a tendency to overstep the mark and can be rather taken with their imagined importance. They also get very defensive about looking after the ‘company image’ or their public profile.

Number 1 Reason to avoid using the Cisco Learning Network | Cisco Study Blog: “”

Most likely this is just one person who needs a slap on the wrist by their manager but it is a symptom of a greater sickness going on inside Cisco. With the economic downturn, the pressure to do things better will increase from managers who overcommitted to budget targets six months ago. Read this article at Network World on a Cisco employee acting poorly, I have certainly seen this, and this includes the TAC as well as AS :

Cisco’s Arrogance Bugs Me Again

Expect more of this crap in the future. It ain’t going away,

Cisco Product Quick Reference Guide- Finally, You Can Download It for Free.

Once upon a time, the Cisco Quick Reference was free to download. Then you had to pay for it. Now it’s free again. Does that tell you anything ? Read more

Cisco to Release a New Router for Metro Networks - GigaOM

Ah, the senseless futility of viral marketing by Cisco. Om Malik makes a few calls and finds out that the upcoming Cisco announcement is a new Metro router to improve Service Provider edge connectivity.

And Cisco thought that a ‘viral marketing’ campaign would generate interest ? In a Metro router ? WTF ?

Once upon a time, Cisco sold stuff. Now we have marketing and its not the same.

A metro router. marketing ? jeez.

Cisco to Release a New Router for Metro Networks - GigaOM: “”

CCIE Candidate:What Roles Do Security Teams Play vs. Infrastructure Teams?

Keith Tokash opens up a topic close to my own heart, and one that I am working on right now. Go there and add comments so that my job is easier
I believe that there should be a Security Design team and a Security Audit team. All security operations should be performed by Network Operations.

The SecAudit team should consists on consulting type people who love writing policies, working with management and reviewing the work that has been delivered matches the plan and design. This includes reviewing Securty Operations (which is most likely delivered by Network Operations). They do not perform hands on work, or any day to day activities.

The SecDes team are used to reference and validate all Security changes against the reference designs derived from Policy. They are Network Engineers with a specialisation in Security and can assess impact on Network Integrity.

Leave comments if you want me to expound more on this topic.

CCIE Candidate - What Roles Do Security Teams Play vs. Infrastructure Teams?: “”

No More Handbags at Dawn. Lets Get to Work.

Looks like Brian Dennis may have realised that handbags at dawn isn’t a good look.

Good. Lets get down to business,

For now, Internetwork Expert has a good program and a defined future to compete with Cisco 360 study offering and is probably superior (given that few people seem to publicly recommend NetMasterClass). For a brilliant article on product comparison go immediately to Brandon Carrol’s outstanding review.

Vendor Wars? - CCIE Blog: “”

Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog: Openness Is Not Enough

Nick Carr is so clever:

“But in this early stage of the cloud’s development, openness means little to the buyer (or user). The buyers, particularly those in big companies, are nervous about the cloud even as they are becoming increasingly eager to reap the benefits the cloud can provide. What they care about right now is security, reliability, features, compatibility with their existing systems and applications, ease of adoption, stability of the vendor, and other practical concerns. “

Oh, OK. Did he miss anything ? In other words cloud computing is NOT meeting any of the the MINIMUM requirements for companies.

Not much to worry about then. Cloud Computing is already here ? What a load of tosh.

Cloud computing is much,much further away than anyone thinks.

Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog: Openness is not enough: “”

Top 4 Things IPexpert Will Say About Internetwork Expert CCIE 2.0 Announcement

Here are the Top 4 things IPExpert will say about yesterdays announcement by InternetExpert. -> Warning - contains sarcasm. Read more

Nerdgasm: Laptop Art - Gotta Have Some

I have artwork on my laptop. It’s my way of sticking it to corporate culture. Sit down in business meeting with a laptop of bright colours - looks of envy! Make the world a happy place. Read more

Top 5 Things About Cisco “Viral” Announcement

Here is my take on the Top 5 things about the Cisco announcement today Read more

Top 5 Things That Internetwork Expert Might Announce Today.

My top five list of things that IE might announce later today Read more

Windows Azure Signals Start of Misty Computing - Microsoft Will Always Sell to the Enterprise

Everyone is congratulating Microsoft for their new Cloud Computer thingie - Azure. All I see is public beta for Corporate Cloud Service. Read more

Opinion: Morality Is Not a Group Effort - GigaOM

Om Malik talks about corporate morals, and reminds us that we, alone, are responsible for our actions. A topic close to my own heart. Please read and consider the thoughts and intention of this article. Happy Diwali.

Opinion: Morality Is Not a Group Effort - GigaOM: “”

Fundraising Update Oct 2008

We have now raised GBP£45 for Wynstones School Hall. Thankyou for your help. Read more

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