Help Choosing a Podcast Name

I need some help with a name for my [attempt at a] Podcast.

Designer or Engineer, Artist or Painter

Are you a painter or an artist ? Are you an engin­eer or a designer ? Can you Paint with a Hammer?

Blessay: Why I Think IP Telephony Is Over (and I’m Not Studying CCIE Voice)

I think that IP Telephony is over and the whole idea of in house PBX is gently fad­ing away to be replaced by Presence and Mobile phones.

Etherealmind Has a New Look and Opens for Direct Sponsors

Ethereal Mind has had a makeover on the week­end and has a new theme. I’m much hap­pier with the look and feel and it seems a bit quicker. And I’m now tak­ing dir­ect advert­ising and sponsorship.

Syntax: VLANs or VLAN’s ?

Given that I write designs a lot, I get to write the word VLAN quite a bit. I’m still won­der­ing which is the best way ?

Rant:My Growing Dislike Of “Cross Marketing”

I pur­chase a new product /​ thing /​ soft­ware. I delight in open­ing /​ using /​ start­ing it for the first time. Then, an advert­ise­ment spews up for a related product. Lousy douchet­ards, if I wanted that, I would have bought it.

Frame or Packets — Make Sure You Get It Right!

When you use the terms ‘frames’ or ‘pack­ets’ make sure you get it right!

Network ZEN: Stackable or Chassis Switches

The Zen Master was med­it­at­ing over his net­work, at one­ness with the Flow. A stu­dent approached the mas­ter and asked ‘may I not stack the c3750 to cre­ate more con­nec­tions to the Flow’.

Design:Choosing Firefox for IE6 Compatibility

Recent dis­cus­sions about leg­acy soft­ware requir­ing IE6 means that we will deploy Firefox instead of Internet Explorer.

Blog:Geek Pride — I’m So Proud of My Twitter Followers

Proud that my twit­ter fol­low­ers are Cisco geeks!

Reasons for Using NFS With VMware Virtual Infrastructure

Windows 7’s XP Mode — Needs BIOS Changes

This Register art­icle points out that the Windows XP emu­la­tion fea­ture in Windows 7 needs vir­tu­al­isa­tion enabled in the BIOS on a sup­por­ted CPU. Let me point out that chan­ging the BIOS on eight thou­sand desktops isn’t going to be an option.

Remove NoScript From Your Firefox — Here Is Why.

The developer of the pop­u­lar NoScript addon for Firefox has moved to an ad-​​supported model to make money. This includes offer­ing tool­bars and whitel­ist­ing cer­tain advert­ising sites.

Top 4 Things About IBM Buying Sun

Some ideas, humour and bile about IBM buy­ing Sun.

Top 5 Things About the Cisco Data Centre 3.0 Announcement Today [Humour]

Just before the much bal­ly­hooed launch of Cisco sup­posed serv­ers, let look at Etherealmind’s Top 5 Things about Cisco’s launch today.

Public Cloud Computing Looks Bad — Again.

ma​.gno​lia​.com, an online bool­mark­ing ser­vice like deli­cious is broken. Another “Cloud Computing” ser­vice goes out with a whimper.

Etherealmind’s Favourite Posts of 2008

I have been going over the year and picked out some of my per­sonal favour­ites as well as some of the most pop­u­lar posts this year.

Mediatemple Causing Intermittent Site Outages

My host­ing pro­vider is medi­atemple and they are report­ing ser­vice prob­lems. Apologies if this is affect­ing you. Please wait a bit and try again.

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