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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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

Real CCIE’s, Real People Scholarship | Internetwork Expert

Real CCIE’s, Real People Scholarship | Internetwork Expert: “”

Now that’s supporting the community and putting something back. Best of luck to all hopeful Mendicants.

(Via CCIE Pursuit.)

CCIE Water Cooler Gossip: Tolly’s Review of IPexpert vs. Internetwork Expert CCIE Labs | NetworkWorld.Com Community

The online bitch-slapping-fest between IPexpert and Internetwork Expert has reached a rather fevered pitch after Brad Reese spewed up the biggest troll post I have seen in years.

There seems to be a lot of ego, a lot of history, and airing of dirty laundry going on here. It not pretty for anyone involved, and frankly, as a customer its not looking good for either party. I can’t be bothered to spend too much time on it, digusting that grown men are acting this way.

They should be concentrating on making themselves better than Cisco 360 if they want their businesses to do well. That shouldn’t be hard to do, but when Global Knowledge or FastLane rolls out their CCIE training program using Cisco Joint Marketing Fund money to pay for students of resellers, both companies revenue stream might be in trouble.

CCIE water cooler gossip: Tolly’s review of IPexpert vs. Internetwork Expert CCIE labs | NetworkWorld.com Community: “”

More Racks From InternetExpert - Better Time Slots

Internetwork Expert has announced more lab racks coming online in November. Most important is the new time slots which recognise that not every customer lives in America and will suit more customers globally.
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Mibi Mega Kibi Kilo - Decimal and Binary Prefixes

A megabit can be 1,000,000 bits or 1,048,576 bits depending on whether you using decimal or binary definitions. Standards have been defined to help - are you using the mibibyte and kibibyte in your documentation ? Read more

Opinion:Certification Matters- Only You Can Do the Study - Part 3

When its comes to achieving certification, only you can do the study. Making excuses for why you haven’t started or about how much it costs, are just excuses. Read more

Opinion:Certification Matters -Part 2- Knowledge or Experience - Which Is More Valuable ?

Is knowledge or experience better when hunting for a position ? It’s a good topic and worth putting some ideas down here and having a discussion. Read more

Opinion: Certification Matters - Experience Less So - Part 1

I have received a couple of comments lately about Certification and taking me to task about my support for certified people. Here’s is Part One of Three (or more) about Certification and why it matters. Read more

Secure Computing Sold to McAfee - What a Waste of Human Life

Press release at Secure Computing website confirming that they have been sold to McAfee - its a sad day when one of the best security technology companies gets the kiss of death. Read more

FCoE Might Improve Storage but Will Complicate IT and Cause Team Disruption

I was thinking over the integration of an IT Engineering team to provide a cloud computing services. While discussing team responsibilities and operational “edges” I realised how divisive and dysfunctional FCoE will be to a team. Read more

Bob Cringely - CCIE:the Leading Men - Judge Economic Progress

Bob Cringely analyses GDP per CCIE in a country to judge their future economic progress. Who cares about the information, this is a huge push for our CCIE certification. Folks, time to think about asking for a raise! Read more

OSX:Punditry - Four Options From Apple in September - Unexpected!

I am holding on to some cash, waiting for Apple to make their September udpates. Here are my predictions for what they will release, and why. Read more

My Proposed Code of Blogging Ethics - Updated

I put some more thought into ethics and have updated the list. A part of ethics is to make me check myself before I say something stupid when I am writing. Read more

Brocade Buys Foundry ? No Great Loss. Storage Switches Ahoy!

Following my post a couple of days ago about Buying Brocade switches it seems that Brocade isn’t going to make their own, they just bought something off the shelf. Read more

Are You Ready to Purchase a Brocade Ethernet Switch ? What ?

One of the more amusing byproducts of the FCoE marketing push, is that Brocade has announced that they will producing FCoE switches for their customers. So, are you ready to buy a Brocade Ethernet switch ? Read more

Rant: Computerworld - World’s Youngest CCNA: 12-Year-Old Irtiza From Pakistan

So a 12 year old passed the CCNA test. I suspect that many people will use this to point out how easy, or pointless, certfication is, but I believe it is a testament to education and the value of a well organised teaching system
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Rant: That Is Not an Apology CertGuard. You Have to Say Sorry!

So after Bred Reese got on the phone to Robert Williams at Certguard and told them what to do, they have contacted Ethan Banks. Ethan has returned to the web and indicates that all is well.

I am not so forgiving.

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