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Rant: I’m Not Dumb – Expanding Acronyms and Third Person Nouns

4th April 2012 By Greg Ferro 9 Comments

It is part of my professional life to write documents and whitepapers. I do this both for my $DayJob as a Network Engineer/Architect, and for my $NightJob writing whitepapers and articles for vendors and analyst firms. Over time of submissions, I’ve had my content reworked in ways that I don’t agree with. I think it’s time to recognise that the English language changes over time.

Filed Under: Blog, Rant

Rant: Screen Reading – Comparing Windows and MAC

29th December 2011 By Greg Ferro 19 Comments

In the last couple of years, I find that I rarely use physical books to read something new. I recently started a new role that requires me to use a Windows 7 laptop and I’m finding it unreadable. Either there is something wrong with Windows or Apple have done something exceptional with screen displays.

Filed Under: OSX, Rant Tagged With: osx, study, worklife

Cisco Nexus NXOS and Fixing Broken “Switchto” Syntax With Alias

18th December 2011 By Greg Ferro 3 Comments

Why does Nexus NXOS use ‘switchto’ instead of ‘changeto’ for the CLI ?

Filed Under: Blog, Cisco, Operation, Rant Tagged With: Cisco, Nexus, NXOS

Cisco, Culture of Buggy Code and the Failure of the TAC

16th November 2011 By Greg Ferro 57 Comments

In recent months I seem to have hit a lot of bugs in Cisco software. Across the board on the main software releases of IOS, NX-OS or IOS-SX I seem to be hitting a wide range of bugs, and some of them are pretty stupid. And I’ve realised that, in recent years, it has become so commonplace, so accepted that we actually plan our projects with time to test, locate and check for bugs. And that’s become an expensive and time-consuming problem.

Why do we put up with this ?

Filed Under: Blessay, Cisco, Rant

Rant: Who Is Cisco’s Customer ? Me or the Reseller ?

28th July 2011 By Greg Ferro 7 Comments

I resent the fact that Cisco partners get more information than Customers on Cisco’s website. Shows you who Cisco thinks the Customer really is.

What special powers do resellers have that makes them more effective ?

How does withholding information from Customers give a better outcome ?

Me ? Many resellers are not competent enough to be business and need a headstart to be useful to customers. Without some sort of “special needs” assistance, they wouldn’t be in the race.

Too harsh ? IBM and HP don’t rely on resellers to win business. Why does Cisco ?

Filed Under: Opinion, Outbursts, Rant Tagged With: Cisco, industry, Rant

HP Is Not the Death Star – But HP Doesn’t Have a Firewall

1st June 2011 By Greg Ferro 12 Comments

HP doesn’t have a firewall product in Western markets. Why the bloody hell not ?

Filed Under: Blog, Opinion, Rant Tagged With: hp

Egregious Use of “Cloud” – Cisco Wireless LAN Flex Cloud Controller

29th May 2011 By Greg Ferro 4 Comments

Because nothing says “Cloud Computering” like a Wireless LAN Controller.

Filed Under: Opinion, Rant Tagged With: Opinion

Rant: Why SPB Doesn’t Get Any Attention

25th March 2011 By Greg Ferro 24 Comments

Someone made a comment that Packet Pushers hasn’t discussed SPB as alternative to TRILL or other Fabric solutions. Here’s why.

Rant: I’m Not Dumb – Expanding Acronyms and Third Person Nouns

Rant: Screen Reading – Comparing Windows and MAC

Cisco Nexus NXOS and Fixing Broken “Switchto” Syntax With Alias

Cisco, Culture of Buggy Code and the Failure of the TAC

Rant: Who Is Cisco’s Customer ? Me or the Reseller ?

HP Is Not the Death Star – But HP Doesn’t Have a Firewall

Egregious Use of “Cloud” – Cisco Wireless LAN Flex Cloud Controller

Rant: Why SPB Doesn’t Get Any Attention

Everytime the Cisco Toolbar Appears, God Kills a Kitten.

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