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	<title>My EtherealMind&#187; Rant</title>
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		<title>Rant: Who Is Cisco&#8217;s Customer ? Me or the Reseller ?</title>
		<link>http://etherealmind.com/cisco-customer-reseller-or-me/</link>
		<comments>http://etherealmind.com/cisco-customer-reseller-or-me/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 15:49:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Ferro</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 ?]]></description>
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		<title>Comment: &#8220;Worlds Youngest CCIE&#8221; Not So All That.</title>
		<link>http://etherealmind.com/worlds-youngest-ccie-not-so-all-that/</link>
		<comments>http://etherealmind.com/worlds-youngest-ccie-not-so-all-that/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2011 10:36:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Ferro</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://etherealmind.com/?p=4609</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There is some buzz going on at the moment about a guy that has managed to pass his CCIE at something like 18 years of age. Congratulations to him for a job well done. However, I would point out that this isn't exactly a great achievement. In my opinion, there are people who are much more worthy of recognition for passing a certification. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>21</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Case for Network Emulators</title>
		<link>http://etherealmind.com/case-network-emulators/</link>
		<comments>http://etherealmind.com/case-network-emulators/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Oct 2010 11:04:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Ferro</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://etherealmind.com/?p=4141</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It's time to start demanding that vendors make their emulators available to their customers so that we can save money, improve customer value, and increase the Networking Market. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>Whats the Difference Between Kbps and kBps ? A Lot.</title>
		<link>http://etherealmind.com/difference-kbps-kbps/</link>
		<comments>http://etherealmind.com/difference-kbps-kbps/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 08:48:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Ferro</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://etherealmind.com/?p=3982</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Whats the difference between kbps and kBps ? A lot. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>22</slash:comments>
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		<title>Cisco Cius &#8211; That&#8217;s Not Innovation, It&#8217;s ME TOO.</title>
		<link>http://etherealmind.com/cisco-cius-not/</link>
		<comments>http://etherealmind.com/cisco-cius-not/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 20:36:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Ferro</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://etherealmind.com/?p=3505</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So Cisco "announced" the Cius Android tablet. It's not innovation. It's just a cheap knockoff that's easy to do. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>Has IT Certification Become Nothing More Than a Racket?</title>
		<link>http://etherealmind.com/it-certification-nothing-more-than-a-racke/</link>
		<comments>http://etherealmind.com/it-certification-nothing-more-than-a-racke/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 15:57:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://etherealmind.com/?p=3424</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Has IT certification become nothing more than a racket? Something I heard this week made me really start to wonder?]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Rant: Deleting My Facebook Acount &#8211; Done</title>
		<link>http://etherealmind.com/delete-facebook-account-completed/</link>
		<comments>http://etherealmind.com/delete-facebook-account-completed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 10:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Ferro</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://etherealmind.com/?p=3414</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have had serious concerns about Facebook exploiting my information for some time. Their drive for growth and to make money from their captured audience has seen them move over the line of what I regard as acceptable behaviour into unethical behaviour. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Rant: It&#8217;s a Yes / No Question &amp; Cisco IOS Software Licensing Hell Begins Here</title>
		<link>http://etherealmind.com/yes-no-question-cisco-licensing/</link>
		<comments>http://etherealmind.com/yes-no-question-cisco-licensing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 08:57:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Ferro</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://etherealmind.com/yes-no-question-cisco-licensing/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For Crom's sake, answer the question. Who let the marketing people write this stuff!!!

OH, AND Cisco IOS Software Licensing hell starts now. I'm calling it. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Rant: Brocade Requires Login &amp; Service Contract to Access Foundry Manuals</title>
		<link>http://etherealmind.com/brocade-requires-login-foundry-manuals/</link>
		<comments>http://etherealmind.com/brocade-requires-login-foundry-manuals/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 09:31:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Ferro</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://etherealmind.com/brocade-requires-login-foundry-manuals/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So, I'm working on some Foundry gear and I'd like get access to some manuals to learn how Foundry works. Except they are hidden behind a login for valid service contract holders. Whats up with that ? ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Rant:Cisco &#8211; Masters of the Networking World &#8211; What&#8217;s That on Your Home Page ?</title>
		<link>http://etherealmind.com/cisco-home-page-fail/</link>
		<comments>http://etherealmind.com/cisco-home-page-fail/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:55:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Ferro</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://etherealmind.com/?p=2345</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Is Cisco's home page a complete FAIL today ? Or is that just me. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>Rant: People Are Not Valuable or Why I Don&#8217;t Attend Office Parties</title>
		<link>http://etherealmind.com/why-i-dont-attend-office-parties/</link>
		<comments>http://etherealmind.com/why-i-dont-attend-office-parties/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:09:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Ferro</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://etherealmind.com/?p=2104</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I am often asked to attend parties with my co-workers for people who are leaving, Christmas or team parties. Then I realised how little it really mattered and got on with my life.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
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		<title>Rant:Why Is the IEEE All About Secrecy ?</title>
		<link>http://etherealmind.com/ieee-secrecy-closed-its-not-right/</link>
		<comments>http://etherealmind.com/ieee-secrecy-closed-its-not-right/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:03:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Ferro</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://etherealmind.com/?p=1915</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I'm not happy that IEEE hides much of the meeting and discussions that progress the standards that affect all of us. Why does it have to be a secret ? ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Rant:Cisco Networkers Virtual &#8211; Its Bad, Very Bad.</title>
		<link>http://etherealmind.com/rant-cisco-networkers-virtual-its-bad-very-bad/</link>
		<comments>http://etherealmind.com/rant-cisco-networkers-virtual-its-bad-very-bad/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:01:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Ferro</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://etherealmind.com/?p=1711</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I went to Networkers in Barcelona last year and got a login to the Networkers Virtual. Frankly, what a pile of utterly misguided marketing hype. It's unusable and not fit for purpose. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>Rant:My Growing Dislike of &#8220;Cross Marketing&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://etherealmind.com/rant-growing-hatred-cross-marketing/</link>
		<comments>http://etherealmind.com/rant-growing-hatred-cross-marketing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 17:04:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Ferro</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://etherealmind.com/?p=1678</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Why Does This Remind Me of Putting FCoE in My Network ?</title>
		<link>http://etherealmind.com/why-does-this-remind-me-fcoe-my-network/</link>
		<comments>http://etherealmind.com/why-does-this-remind-me-fcoe-my-network/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:42:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Ferro</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://etherealmind.com/?p=1581</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This photo reminds me of networks that I have worked on. FCoE anyone ? ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Rant:D-Link Hijacks Your Internets &#8211; In FIRMWARE</title>
		<link>http://etherealmind.com/d-link-hijacks-internet/</link>
		<comments>http://etherealmind.com/d-link-hijacks-internet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 12:42:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Ferro</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://etherealmind.com/?p=979</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Rant: Certguard in Computerworld &#8211; Go and Register Your Disgust</title>
		<link>http://etherealmind.com/certguard-in-computerworld/</link>
		<comments>http://etherealmind.com/certguard-in-computerworld/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Ferro</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://etherealmind.com/?p=613</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Certguard have been mentioned in a Computerworld article about exam cheats. Please go and leave a comment to show how disgusting that Certguard, who falsely accuse people of cheating, have been used for comment. Posts Related to this ArticleRant: That Is Not an Apology CertGuard. You Have to Say Sorry!Rant: Who Is Robert Williams and [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Managing and Technical Life &#8211; Reprise</title>
		<link>http://etherealmind.com/managing-and-technical-list-reprise/</link>
		<comments>http://etherealmind.com/managing-and-technical-list-reprise/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 07:44:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Ferro</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://etherealmind.com/?p=611</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Give the amount of misinterpretation from my previous post, let me expand my hypothesis a little further. I am quite comfortable with management, and I welcome it. And I love the fact the &#8220;Project Managers&#8221; do the secretarial work for my projects. However, the current business trend appears to go something like this : Manager: [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Rant:Managing Is Easy Compared to Technical Life</title>
		<link>http://etherealmind.com/rant-managing-is-easy-compared-to-technical-life/</link>
		<comments>http://etherealmind.com/rant-managing-is-easy-compared-to-technical-life/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:32:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Ferro</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://etherealmind.com/?p=590</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Not everyone will be a good manager, but very few people will ever be a good, I mean _really_ good, technician or engineer. You should be willing to pay for that. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>Rant:New Logos ? Tasteless Rubbish</title>
		<link>http://etherealmind.com/cisco-logos-tasteless-rubbish/</link>
		<comments>http://etherealmind.com/cisco-logos-tasteless-rubbish/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 09:22:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Ferro</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://etherealmind.com/?p=543</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When I first heard about the logos, I thought, fair enough. Now I have had a closer look, and taken a few days to think about it - they are rubbish.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>Rant: I Loathe Voicemail, Its Disruptive and Inefficient</title>
		<link>http://etherealmind.com/loathe-voicemail/</link>
		<comments>http://etherealmind.com/loathe-voicemail/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:22:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Ferro</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://etherealmind.com/?p=396</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Its hard to describe how disruptive voice mail can be to an organised engineering day. The idea that someone can leave a message which requires me to undertake a further action (usually without confirmation) is anathema to being organised and getting things done. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Rant: F5 LTM and GTM Doesn&#8217;t Do External AAA Authorization</title>
		<link>http://etherealmind.com/f5-ltm-gtm-radius-tacacs-no-aaa-authorization/</link>
		<comments>http://etherealmind.com/f5-ltm-gtm-radius-tacacs-no-aaa-authorization/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:32:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Ferro</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://etherealmind.com/2008/02/27/f5-ltm-gtm-radius-tacacs-no-aaa-authorization/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[F5 BigIP LTM and GTM does not have any user authorisation capability for administration by Radius or TACACS. Can you believe that? They have been producing F5 BigIP software for more than a decade and I cannot believe that customers have not been asking to provide external user authorisation. To compare, I have just been [...]]]></description>
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