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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Blessay: Personal Ethics and Corporate Morals - My Choices

One of the challenges of professional life is that my conscience can be ‘challenged’ by the corporate process and actions that I deem wrong, by my personal moral code, are quite acceptable in corporate morality. 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

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.

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NAT’D or Translated - the Votes Are in - We Have a WINNER

The poll votes are in, the Magic Gnomes have carefully examined all the ballots (in addition to the their day job of checking all the packets
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Question: Is It Natted or Is It NAT’D ?

When writing documentation I refer to network address translation as NAT. When a packet or flow undergoes the NAT process, is it Natted or NAT’d ?

I prefer to use NAT’d as this suits my thinking but I would lile to ask you what you would choose before I add it to the Network Dictionary.

Leave comment or go to the forum to discuss.

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

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

Rant: Who Is Robert Williams and Certguard ? And Are They Moral or Just Plain Stupid ?

I won’t go into the circumstances surrounding CertGuard accusing Ethan Banks of cheating. You can read articles at other Cisco Blogs. Here is my take:

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Musing: On Reading and Learning From a Computer Screen

One of the other tricks I have had to learn is how to read from a computer screen. Here are my musings on learning and reading from a computer screen instead of paper. Read more

American Technology Companies Have Poor Support Outside the US - Why ?

I use a lot of technology that is developed in the US, and, consistently, when they ship that technology to ‘rest of the world’ they pass their support responsibilities so a distributor. While this looks like a good idea, the service the distributor delivers is usually poor.

Why is this acceptable, and as a customer, why do I have put up with this ? All this “customer focus” and “listening to the customer” that we hear so much about from the Executives, doesn’t translate into customer support ?

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