It seems to me that many people do not understand that the fonts used in your documents are specifically designed for printing or use on a computer. Many fonts that look great on a printed page look fuzzy and ill defined on a computer screen. The typefaces you normally read have been designed to be [...]
Response: Georgia & Verdana – Typefaces for the Screen – www.will-harris.com
14th January 2013 by 1 Comment
Do Cisco Certified Internet Engineers (CCIE) Get Special Privileges From Cisco ?
9th December 2012 by 17 Comments
I’m regularly asked the question: What privileges or special access does Cisco give to people when they pass the CCIE™exam ?
Short answer: None. Nada. Nothing. Zip. Zero.
Read on for the “Longer Answer”
My Knowledge Management Process With PDF Files – Part 2
13th March 2012 by 7 Comments
I’ve been asked a few times about how I organise my PDF files and keep track of documents. This post looks at my workflow for capturing, storing, tagging and organising my Knowledge Management system. This is Part 2
Rant: Screen Reading – Comparing Windows and MAC
29th December 2011 by 21 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.
Switch Fabrics: Fabric Arbitration and Buffers
22nd August 2011 by 3 Comments
In the article, “What Is the Definition of a Switch Fabric ?” on Switch Fabrics I looked at how a Crossbar switching fabric allow for concurrent circuit forwarding and how this is used to build a fabric. In most cases, frames would be received and forwarded from an input to an output, as show in [...]
Review: Cisco Press Books in ePub Format
18th April 2011 by 8 Comments
I went to my Cisco Press account today ….
Cisco Learning Network Announces Lab Access Based on IOS on Linux
12th April 2011 by 18 Comments
Cisco Learning Network will announce their Cisco Learning Labs today, which offers a full remote lab of networking equipment targeted students in authorised Cisco training.
Cisco Press Textbooks – PDF, DRM Free and Usable on the iPad, Kindle Etc.
28th September 2010 by 14 Comments
Cisco Press textbooks are available in PDF format from O’Reilly but don’t buy them from Cisco Press website because the Adobe DRM will cause you pain and problems.
DSCP QoS Over MPLS Thoughts
6th September 2010 by 5 Comments
I have been working on the edge of MPLS networks for several years and had a basic understating of DSCP QoS values that I was sending into the cloud and expecting them to pop onto the LAN at the other side the same. The QoS queues on the CE’s were already setup and I have had no reason to change then until recently for a new VOIP project; this and my studying for CCIE SP written has prompted me to understand DSCP in depth but also understand how this LAN QoS maps to MPLS QoS.
Internets of Interest:16 Aug 10
16th August 2010 by Leave a Comment
Collection of useful, relevant or inane places on the the Internets for 16 Aug 10:
