Archive for the ‘software’ Category
Monday, May 4th, 2009
I stop and ponder things from time to time. Get philosophical about why we're all charging like lemmings after buzzwords without stopping to wonder why or if we're really going in the right direction. I've seen people end up in dead end careers because they were too near sighted. I ...
Posted in career, linkedin, software | 1 Comment »
Thursday, November 20th, 2008
Sun's super-secret-squirrel storage appliance project has been under wraps for years now. We're talking Apple style secrecy.
About a week ago they finally launched product. Another cool bit of news is that there is a vmware 'simulator' version available for download. cool.
The "fishworks" project was rumoured to be Sun's NetApp killer ...
Posted in hardware, software, Sun & Solaris | 1 Comment »
Monday, November 3rd, 2008
I bought a new PC recently to run virtual machines on. Virtualisation is all the rage, so I've decided to play around with Xen and VMware. It also gives me an easy way to play with numerous OSes without having to frig around with hardware. As GNS3 is to Cisco ...
Posted in career, hardware, linkedin, networking, software | 3 Comments »
Sunday, November 2nd, 2008
A little while ago I discovered that Verizon has annual training budget for employees to do work related courses of their choice. Around that time I learned that SANS was holding one of their training events here in Sydney. I've always wanted to do a SANS course but the cost ...
Posted in career, linkedin, networking, software | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, July 24th, 2007
It can be very hard to get hands on practise working with networking technologies. It usually requires a stack of routers and switches to be able to configure up a meaningful topology. There are simulator software packages but they don't run the code that runs on real routers.
Recently I discovered ...
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Saturday, July 14th, 2007
In a corporate work environment a wiki is such a fantastic tool for collaboration. I've tried out a lot and none were quite good enough for enterprise use. Then a friend put me onto Confluence. Its easy to setup, backup, upgrade and migrate. I'm a fan now. ...
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